Did someone say 3000fps?

[customcutter]

I think this is about the tenth try, but i finally found a way to turn these bullets!

Sneaky said something in another thread about trying to hit 3000fps. This one might do it?

[tackdriver]

Stuff 30ish grains of xbr 8208 w/mag primer and send it!

[Drift]

I think I pointed out that the first commercial bullet to reach 3000fps was the Savage 257/3000 (aka 250 Savage). Thats like 7/1000ths smaller than the 264 bullets we all use. And since the 264 vs 257 will be shorter for the same bullet weight there should be less friction=more velocity . Now the 87gr 257 was a great varmint round but it was a poor deer round which lacked penetration...but they were not copper which is great at penetration. .. I think you might be on to sonething

[JASmith]

Should be easy to get 3k fps from an 18 inch barrel with 80 gr bullets.

Might need to go with 20-22" for the 90 gr bullets.

The 95 gr bullets can almost get there but not with much margin

[customcutter]

I guess I'm going to have to break down and buy that chronograph that I've been thinking about buying for several years now. I don't do a lot of reloading, and when I do it's a safe published load. I want to push the Grendel slightly, but will need the chronograph to read those pressure spikes. It's nice to know that if I had too I could make a bullet. It would be neat to harvest game with a bullet I made. I still remember the thrill of harvesting a deer with my first reload, and taking turkeys with my tungsten loads each year.

Drift, I do remember your talking about the .257 when we were machining the lowers. Very interesting, like I said I would have never guessed it was the .257 AKA .250 Savage.

[Von Gruff]

Having killed quite a few animals with cast bullets I made, I can attest to the satisfaction of this and I think the challenges of doing it with a brass or copper bullet at substantially higher velocity would be equally satisfying.

Soft noses that are heat joined to a hard shank


and loaded to 2415 fps in my 7x57 Mauser



Did for this one at 185yds



and his friends at the same time when they got on the move after the first shot

[customcutter]

Beautiful animals and great shooting. I can occasionally hit a dove on the wing, can't imagine a running shot on a goat at 185 yards!

[sneaky one]

CC, yes I took a deer with a Gmx version of the same pill you made up- this last fall. 77 grains of fury. RL 7 is the powder.

Into testing with BFT now with different wts. of the Cerabus pill.

VG, awesome pics of the goats. it's like a - shoot to eat grocery store, we envy you brother.