COAL surprise with 95 gr V-Max

[603 Country]

[grayfox]

Across 6 barrels from 4 different mfrs my 95 vmax have all seated 2.235-2.240 with room to lands to spare.
Howa, Ruger AP, faxon, lilja, one other barrel the mfr of which I've forgotten.

[603 Country]

[grayfox]

Couple of barrels (which I did not keep) had chambers (I realize that's not your exact problem here) that would allow too-long of OAL's, firing them caused the brass to over-stretch, especially when compared to the other ones I had in hand. Others have reported on OAL's/chambers that appeared to be tight, but I've not had any myself. If you can get the powder in it and it shoots well, all well and good I reckon.
There are a couple of studies in Precision rifle blog/ accurate shooter that talk about the lands moving out ~0.005 give or take for every 100 shots fired... due to the fire/ablation of the throat during the firing; so it could perhaps loosen up after a couple hundred rounds for you.

[603 Country]

[grayfox]

H335 is definitely temp sensitive, I'd keep those unshot rounds in the shade or something cool, 107 will affect their MVs for sure.
But H335 is one of my fave powders for the 95, along with 8208xbr.

[603 Country]

[lazyengineer]

In mine, I have to run 2.2" Longer and I'm in the lands. I've learned the hard way with Grendel, that magazine length, doesn't always mean short enough in Grendel.

[BliksemDonder]

[603 Country]

[grayfox]

Go for it 603 - and good shootin' to ya.

[603 Country]

I finalized the load workup at 29.4 gr of H335. Very tight groups. The oldest grandson will be here on Monday, so I loaded up 60 rounds of the 95 gr V-Max so he could bang away at targets and maybe a coyote and I am done for the day.

[CazadorBob]

Your post is very well written and your command of the English language is excellent, probably better than mine and I was raised here.

[BliksemDonder]

Your post is very well written and your command of the English language is excellent, probably better than mine and I was raised here.

[603 Country]