50gr Zmax OFFICIAL Load Thread!!!

[72Camaro]

Hopefully finishing up and finalizing the 50 grains tomorrow and whichever is most accurate, looking like 26.1 grains of Benchmark if I was to guess, and then whichever is most accurate I'll chrono on the next loading. 24" barrel 1:12 twist. Was hoping it would be a max load but it is not. Good groupings in the middle and one a couple loads down from max for the initial 3 shot group but I'll have to say, they are accurate. Usually shoot 40 grainers at 3400fps with H335 but if Benchmark gets me close for 50 grainers, I may use them instead on the next prairie dog shoot. I'm expecting about 3350fps as listed above by someone else, but we will see.

Well, 5 rounds shooting about .438 MOA at 200yds for the 50 grainers, not bad and close enough for prairie dogs and it wasn't my initial 26.1 grain as that was .5 MOA for 4 and if the flyer added in 1 MOA, it was a lighter load that shot well on all 5. Now to load and do some Chronos. Had another barrel I was working on a 50 grain load that in initial was good but then only shot 1MOA. I'll need to work some different loads up.