JWFilips
Well-Known Member
Hi Guys,
Beacuse of my need for a super quiet or non rifle sounding load to cull all the woodcucks I have on my property
I decide to do some testing today with My Vanguard 358 Winchester and super light loads with the RCBS 200 grain projectile!
Using some of the plain base bullets from one of Ben's Plain Based RCBS Moulds: I had Plain base RCBS 200 grain PC coated bullets with Smokes Gray coating & they were sized .359"
My Choice right off the bat was Red Dot because It had proven to be very accurate load with these plain base bullets at 7 grains!
So I loaded 5 each with 7 gr, 6 gr, 5 gr, 4 gr, 3 gr, & 2.5 gr Red Dot ( each one had a weighed charge) Since I had 2 more weighed bullets and 2 more pieces of primed brass I added a 8.1 gr charge for those two. All shot at 50 yds
First off cold barrel. I got one o the left & the next 3 in the same hole 5th I pulled. Well this was a know accurate load so lets see as I drop the charge!
So 6 gr very good , 5 gr very good so now at 4 grain group was nice but 3" low and I could see the bullets hit the target in a 32 X scope ( very cool!)
OK so what would 3 grains do? Well I picked the center bull on the 2nd target and amazingly the group was very tight except for a flier just off the bottom of the target! but these were 5.5" low of POA This was amazing me! OK so I now went to the 2.5 ( had my soild range rod ready if they were to stick in the bore!)
No Need! They shot a tight 3/4 inch group however they were way off the target at 11" below POA on the backer board!
The thing that amazed me was the group outside of the 7 grain starter were similar never going above 3/4 inch! ( except for the one 3 grain flier which brought it to total 1 " group
The interesting thing is by the 4 gr charge it was easy to watch the bullets impact at 50 yds! You could actually see them lob in!
I shot the 3 and 2.5 gr charges without ear protection...& i have to say while not as quiet as the 3 gr charges in my 8mm GEW they are not recognizable as a rifle.
More like a small firecracker!
Anyway here are the targets Hopefully you can read them ok!
Jim
Beacuse of my need for a super quiet or non rifle sounding load to cull all the woodcucks I have on my property
I decide to do some testing today with My Vanguard 358 Winchester and super light loads with the RCBS 200 grain projectile!
Using some of the plain base bullets from one of Ben's Plain Based RCBS Moulds: I had Plain base RCBS 200 grain PC coated bullets with Smokes Gray coating & they were sized .359"
My Choice right off the bat was Red Dot because It had proven to be very accurate load with these plain base bullets at 7 grains!
So I loaded 5 each with 7 gr, 6 gr, 5 gr, 4 gr, 3 gr, & 2.5 gr Red Dot ( each one had a weighed charge) Since I had 2 more weighed bullets and 2 more pieces of primed brass I added a 8.1 gr charge for those two. All shot at 50 yds
First off cold barrel. I got one o the left & the next 3 in the same hole 5th I pulled. Well this was a know accurate load so lets see as I drop the charge!
So 6 gr very good , 5 gr very good so now at 4 grain group was nice but 3" low and I could see the bullets hit the target in a 32 X scope ( very cool!)
OK so what would 3 grains do? Well I picked the center bull on the 2nd target and amazingly the group was very tight except for a flier just off the bottom of the target! but these were 5.5" low of POA This was amazing me! OK so I now went to the 2.5 ( had my soild range rod ready if they were to stick in the bore!)
No Need! They shot a tight 3/4 inch group however they were way off the target at 11" below POA on the backer board!
The thing that amazed me was the group outside of the 7 grain starter were similar never going above 3/4 inch! ( except for the one 3 grain flier which brought it to total 1 " group
The interesting thing is by the 4 gr charge it was easy to watch the bullets impact at 50 yds! You could actually see them lob in!
I shot the 3 and 2.5 gr charges without ear protection...& i have to say while not as quiet as the 3 gr charges in my 8mm GEW they are not recognizable as a rifle.
More like a small firecracker!
Anyway here are the targets Hopefully you can read them ok!
Jim