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Duplicating Federal 180gr 300 Rem Ultra Mag shells
« on: January 25, 2005, 09:33:47 AM »
I pulled the bullet out of one of these last nite to check on the powder weight and to possibly identify the powder. I found 97.8gr of some kind of ball powder. I checked all of my Manuals that have listings for this round and couldn't find anything that would come near this amount of powder that wasn't an extruded powder. Do the manufactures have some powder choices that they don't want us to have? I'd really like to duplicate this load!! 3 shots,1 clover leaf and a sore shoulder and back.

Can ya'll give me any info.? Do you reckon if I called Federal that they may come off of any info?

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Duplicating Federal 180gr 300 Rem Ultra Mag
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2005, 10:12:40 AM »
The manufacturers have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of powders not availible to handloaders. Factorys use pressure testing and a specified formulas in the powders they buy. They test and adjust powder volumes to match each 1000# lot they buy. Most of the time when a powder is not offered in canister lots to reloaders it's because the lot to lot uniformity has too large a variable as produced. This makes it nessesary to pressure test and adjust each lot which the manufacturers do anyway. As an example I no longer use H-380 because it veries too much when loaded to top velocities in my varmint loads. I came up with some really great shooting loads with it only to find that the next time I bought some the velocity was down 200 fps and it didn't shoot for crap. The third lot gave sticky bolt lifts all with the same component set other than the powder lot. I moved to H-414 and haven't had any problems since.

In answer to your question, Yes they have powders we don't but for good reasons.

In your 300RUM try some RL-25. I load it in a 7.82 Lazzeroni and get 3840fps with a 165Barnes TSX.
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