OhHeyThereBen
Active member
With snow blowing everywhere and near whiteout conditions and hunting mostly on hold, I've been piddling around in my basement doing some reloading. Although my projects aren't nearly as involved as I'm sure many of yours will be, I'm interested to hear what you're all working on.
As many of you have probably seen, I picked up a new Savage 12FV in 6.5 Schmedium last month and have been trying to make the projects last as long as possible (this time of year I have much more time than money on my hands). I bedded the action to the stock, bedded a steel rod into the fore-end to provide more rigidness, and bedded the scope base to the top of the rifle. I loaded up 45 rounds of different loads to test and found some pretty good accuracy nodes for it and have now loaded up 45 more to see if I can narrow things down. The result of the first testing was that 39gr H4350, a Nosler RDF, and a Federal 210 can get me into less than a half inch if I do my job correctly. It's been too cold to get out and shoot, so I did my load testing at the underground indoor rifle range in town.
Last night I resized, cleaned, and prepped 300 pieces of 9mm brass and am going to pick up some bullets and primers to fill them with. This is typically my relaxing time after work where I can tune in to Randy's Youtube channel, load some ammo, and take my mind off of anything happening in my life.
My future plans? I'm going to be picking up some steel to shoot at and head down to some public land south of town to see how the Savage shoots at distance. It's not meant to be a hunting rifle (subject to change) so I'm excited to see what I'm capable of at distance. Learning to read wind, do ballistic calculations, and have proper shooting techniques is going to be a fun experience. I'd also like to do some more experimentation with reloads in my Winchester M70 in 30-06. I got it to about an inch, but feel like it should be more accurate than that. I'll hopefully be picking up some better brass and different bullets in the near future.
As many of you have probably seen, I picked up a new Savage 12FV in 6.5 Schmedium last month and have been trying to make the projects last as long as possible (this time of year I have much more time than money on my hands). I bedded the action to the stock, bedded a steel rod into the fore-end to provide more rigidness, and bedded the scope base to the top of the rifle. I loaded up 45 rounds of different loads to test and found some pretty good accuracy nodes for it and have now loaded up 45 more to see if I can narrow things down. The result of the first testing was that 39gr H4350, a Nosler RDF, and a Federal 210 can get me into less than a half inch if I do my job correctly. It's been too cold to get out and shoot, so I did my load testing at the underground indoor rifle range in town.
Last night I resized, cleaned, and prepped 300 pieces of 9mm brass and am going to pick up some bullets and primers to fill them with. This is typically my relaxing time after work where I can tune in to Randy's Youtube channel, load some ammo, and take my mind off of anything happening in my life.
My future plans? I'm going to be picking up some steel to shoot at and head down to some public land south of town to see how the Savage shoots at distance. It's not meant to be a hunting rifle (subject to change) so I'm excited to see what I'm capable of at distance. Learning to read wind, do ballistic calculations, and have proper shooting techniques is going to be a fun experience. I'd also like to do some more experimentation with reloads in my Winchester M70 in 30-06. I got it to about an inch, but feel like it should be more accurate than that. I'll hopefully be picking up some better brass and different bullets in the near future.
