stagpanther
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Yes I'm lazy--I just bought a couple hundred Petersen cases in 6 creedmoor--does anyone have any idea how it's internal capacity compares with say Lapua's (+,-, or about the same)?
Either similar capacity--or a great load.I used Peterson and Lapua with a previous .260 Remington barrel, there was no noticeable difference with regards to velocity or accuracy when using the same powder charge and bullet
The manufacturers have no control of the case condition, dimensions and methods used when customers measure them. There is no industry standard established.It's always a bit of a mystery to me why case manufacturers don't list at least H2O capacity.
It's always a bit of a mystery to me why case manufacturers don't list at least H2O capacity.
Why not?Wouldn't it be something if two different brands of 308 win had a difference of 5 grs capacity! If that happened, one might be a 308 and the other won't be!
I bought 200 of the Alpha brass in 6CM and have found it to be is every bit as good as Lapua and Peterson. My match cases used to be 100% Lapua but I try to buy American when there is a good option
It's interesting you mention this--I just finished testing some 108 vld loads using RL 23; very mediocre results until just for the heck of it I significantly increased the jump to lands using Hornady's recommended COL and the groups magically tightened up and this seemed to be repeated with most loads regardless of charge weight.I am hoping the SD's dropped a bit. I did not have a lot of luck in matches with that load, thinking about pulling that barrel and putting a 6BR or 6 Dasher on it
I can't get out to much past 100yds where I shoot now, so my results may not be indicative of what you could get in your gun--especially since you're loading longer BUT not loading more powder from what I can see.Nope Stag sure have not. I am going to try and tweak that 37.5 load to see if I can get the numbers down but with the short barrel life I am not inclined to tweak it much. It's a very tight shooter out to 300 but the ES on this load sucks at 600 and 800 with a lot of vertical and odd flyers in the groups. I like the round though, I will put a 6CM barrel on another rifle this fall and move back to .260 Rem on my long range gun.