06-10-2020, 03:14 PM
sbowhuntr Wrote:If your getting half minute moa with the benchmark why bother changing? Those are great groups but some folks are not satisfied unless they are pushing the max velocities but to each his own I guess. Im running 30.2g of benchmark with the 90g tnt which is almost max load and im getting excellent accuracy with low es & sd's. Im not one to worry to much about velocities as long as accuracy is good. I solely use my weapons for hunting and a couple hundred fps is no deal breaker because dead is dead regardless of velocities.
I just saw this post now. My biggest reasoning for wanting the extra velocity is that I plan on using this as a hunting load, and want to minimize as much room for error as possible. I tried loading up some of the AR-comp and ended up with a mildly compressed load that shoots about 1.5 MOA, and I've loaded up a couple more bullets with that load that I have seated a bit deeper to try to see if the powder pushing out the bullets by about .005" affected accuracy that significantly. Next I plan on loading up some CFE223 and some IMR4895(when I can find some info for it, I was thing of starting at 27gr and stopping at 28.5 in .5gr increments.) I am heading to the range in a few hours to test, so I'll try to update then.