10x?

[crs89]

Has anyone tried 10x powder in their 30A? With any bullet. I'm patiently waiting for my barrel but was gonna load up some rounds to try.

[GLSHOOTER]

I'll look at my notes later for you. I can tell you unless you have the barrel in front of you DO NOT load anything. Each of these seem a little different in fit and chances are you will be less than happy pulling down rounds.

Greg

I looked over the data on RL10. It's a nice forgiving powder. Not real spikey and very consistent. The best 125's on game have been the 125 Noslers.

Sierra 125 Pro Hunter RL10 32.0 MAX
Speer 130 Varmint RL10 31.6 MAX

[crs89]

Aug 4, 2018 6:30:52 GMT -8 GLSHOOTER said:

I'll look at my notes later for you. I can tell you unless you have the barrel in front of you DO NOT load anything. Each of these seem a little different in fit and chances are you will be less than happy pulling down rounds.

Greg

I looked over the data on RL10. It's a nice forgiving powder. Not real spikey and very consistent. The best 125's on game have been the 125 Noslers.

Sierra 125 Pro Hunter RL10 32.0 MAX
Speer 130 Varmint RL10 31.6 MAX

Do you mean case wise or distance to the lands?

[GLSHOOTER]

Both. It is IMPERATIVE that you be able to measure distance to lands. This is a full wildcat in every dimension. You CAN NOT load this to 2.260 or whatever and go pull the trigger unless you feel the need to hurt the rifle or yourself.

The shoulder placement is all over the place from chamber to chamber thanks to reamer and head space changes from the original non-fire form cartridge.

What fits in your chamber probably will not fit in mine.

Greg

[crs89]

Aug 4, 2018 9:33:43 GMT -8 GLSHOOTER said:

Both. It is IMPERATIVE that you be able to measure distance to lands. This is a full wildcat in every dimension. You CAN NOT load this to 2.260 or whatever and go pull the trigger unless you feel the need to hurt the rifle or yourself.

The shoulder placement is all over the place from chamber to chamber thanks to reamer and head space changes from the original non-fire form cartridge.

What fits in your chamber probably will not fit in mine.

Greg

I understand Wildcats but my understanding was you didnt move the shoulder at first just sized up to 30cal and fireformed the case or is that wrong?

I will check distance to lands before loading was thinking that one through. I'll make up a modified case tonight.

Do all barrels come with the gauge to set the die? I just purchased my barrel from True sporting arms and I didnt see it mentioned.

Sorry for all the questions.

[GLSHOOTER]

You'll have to trim as a full 6.8 is too long. Fire forming was not required on this to start. Where it's gone anyone's guess on shoulder height. Merely opening up to 30 will not give you a good case forming. To do it right you would make up a false shoulder in the neck to hold the case straight as it gets formed.

The better route would be to use the Starline 6.8 BASIC case so you could set the shoulder height properly. Using it you will have to anneal prior to foring. The problem there is the brass isn't cheap and it can be a bit labor intensive.

There are no gauges sent with the barrels. That concept died an early death.

Greg

[crs89]

Aug 4, 2018 11:58:21 GMT -8 GLSHOOTER said:

You'll have to trim as a full 6.8 is too long. Fire forming was not required on this to start. Where it's gone anyone's guess on shoulder height. Merely opening up to 30 will not give you a good case forming. To do it right you would make up a false shoulder in the neck to hold the case straight as it gets formed.

The better route would be to use the Starline 6.8 BASIC case so you could set the shoulder height properly. Using it you will have to anneal prior to foring. The problem there is the brass isn't cheap and it can be a bit labor intensive.

There are no gauges sent with the barrels. That concept died an early death.

Greg

So basically there are several chamber designs a d it's just a guessing game as to what I'll end up with?

[GLSHOOTER]

Yep. Those were barrels made over a three-four year period as mentioned in the information on the site. For all you know you might end up with the original chamber that all the load data and development was done on, or not.

Greg

[crs89]

Aug 4, 2018 13:22:30 GMT -8 GLSHOOTER said:

Yep. Those were barrels made over a three-four year period as mentioned in the information on the site. For all you know you might end up with the original chamber that all the load data and development was done on, or not.

Greg

That's uhhhh great lol. Oh well I'll get it figured out. I'm guessing that's partly why this caliber never took off real well? Seems like a damn good concept especially for whitetail.

[GLSHOOTER]

Aug 5, 2018 4:38:17 GMT -8 crs89 said:

Aug 4, 2018 13:22:30 GMT -8 GLSHOOTER said:

Yep. Those were barrels made over a three-four year period as mentioned in the information on the site. For all you know you might end up with the original chamber that all the load data and development was done on, or not.

Greg

That's uhhhh great lol. Oh well I'll get it figured out. I'm guessing that's partly why this caliber never took off real well? Seems like a damn good concept especially for whitetail.

It's a lot more popular than you realize in the original chamber. The last twp years not so much. I talk with guys all over the US about it frequently.

It even does well on smaller elk and of course it's killed a bunch of mule deer.

Greg