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Offline 7mmBRmostly

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pet loads for BLR 358 200gr
« on: September 02, 2010, 03:33:34 PM »
Hi guys no I am not gonna shoot any pets. I have some 200gr Hornady spire points ready to pour powder for, save me a little trial and error and waiting for light bbl to cool! I am especially interested in any 200gr load data that you have found particularly accurate in a BLR 358  I checked these bullets will sit against the lands and feed from the mag so am encouraged by that!  Thanks in advance
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Re: pet loads for BLR 358 200gr
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 07:05:33 AM »
I have one of them also, haven't run ANYTHING thru it yet.  I'll be watching this as well.  Hodgdon lists IMR 3031 as the fastest for the 200 gr and it has always given good accuracy in everything I've tryed it in.  DP
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Re: pet loads for BLR 358 200gr
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 07:39:37 AM »
7mm,

Having owned several 358 BLRs I looked back through my notes and found I loaded 46gr of IMR4895 under a hornady 200gr bullet. In my lyman manual it shows the accuracy load for IMR3031 powder to be 47.8 gr under the 200gr bullet. Thats a max load so back off & work up if you chose to try the 3031 powder.

The 4895 powder load is a starting load in my manual and I never saw any reason to try anything else.  ;D  My Lyman manual is a old one so I don't know if either powder has changed any.

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Re: pet loads for BLR 358 200gr
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2010, 09:26:40 AM »
Thanks guys
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Re: pet loads for BLR 358 200gr
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2010, 11:51:00 AM »
Timely thread, I just came from the range an hour ago where I shot my .358 BLR.  I'm using H322 44.6gr with both 200 Hrn SP and 200 gr FTX.  They shoot to within .5" of each other and ALWAYS give me sub MOA groups, sometimes 1/2 MOA.  Speed is just over 2550fps and they are slightly warm in my rifle.  <ALWAYS WORK UP SLOWLY>  I also shot amazing groups with IMR 4064 but they were compressed and I didn't like that.  Careful where you seat but I'm sure you already know that.  I used to touch the rifling but ran into some high pressure problems at sub maximum loads and actually stuck a bullet in the barrel this summer while I was cycling my loads for fit.  Very messy trying to get all the powder out of the action.  I'm seating them to just under the ring on the SPs and a bit lower for the FTX.  I don't think i gave up anything by doing that and even if it doubled the group size it would be worth it -after all it is my hunting rifle and much more accurate than I am under field conditions.  Good luck.   
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Re: pet loads for BLR 358 200gr
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2010, 06:23:22 AM »
47grs H 4895 shot good and 50grs H 4895 shot great
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