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Reply #15 - Jul 6th, 2011 at 3:17pm
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Great test, thank you very much!

What primers did you use with the 4759 loads?

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Reply #16 - Jul 6th, 2011 at 3:49pm
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WLP except where Rem 2.5 are noted.
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Reply #17 - Jul 6th, 2011 at 5:27pm
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"From a novice... one of the suggested-readings stated tilting/loading the rifle cartridge upward will cause peppering of the bullet base and incomplete burning of powder.  I will drag the books out and see if I can reference the comment."

I found the reference: The Modern Shooting Rifle, 2d Ed., Charles Dell, Chapter 7B - Wads, Page 168.  It's about powder "peening" the base of bullets (sand blast effect) relative to the location of the powder (without wads).

Of course, this info is probably irrelevant compared to the experiment shown earlier.   

Still looking for the reading where tilting the fixed cartridge was mentioned. Huh



  
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Re: Load Density & powder positon
Reply #18 - Jul 6th, 2011 at 7:18pm
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Way I first had this "proven" to me was spotting in our clubs gong matches.

Two shooters were using the same 45/70 Sharps loaded with Unique . I watched 40 rounds go down range from each shooter. One lifted high and screwed down other rested the muzzle on a rest and came up level to the 200 yard gong. We observe the strikes with two off relay shooters using spotting scopes marking point of impact with push pins color coded for the individual . Score is hit or miss recorded by a 3rd scorekeepeer

Two groups, one high and one low about 4 moa apart was very obvious on the spotting board. You could say one guy holds different than the other.  However I took my 32/20 CLA Pistol caliber rifle with 4.5 gr Unique loads out week after and duplicated the 40 high and 40 low shot groups on paper at 100 yards. Two distinctly different groups.   

Only thing is I switched to 4227 from Unique and figured I solved the potential problem.  Now after measuring density looks like 4227 and Unique loading density is about the same.  Lesson for me is mount the same way every time.

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