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Post by parkj5 on Aug 4, 2019 8:08:10 GMT -5
OK guys i am finally going to start load development on my M2 i picked up last year.I am wanting to purchase one powder and stick with it. I have found V110 and R7 .Bullets is 260 grn nosler partions MMP short black sabot which one is the best guys?
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Post by ET on Aug 4, 2019 16:27:07 GMT -5
OK guys i am finally going to start load development on my M2 i picked up last year.I am wanting to purchase one powder and stick with it. I have found V110 and R7 .Bullets is 260 grn nosler partions MMP short black sabot which one is the best guys? It's been suggested (been away for awhile) that V110 is a good choice for a single powder. Ed
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Post by Dave W on Aug 5, 2019 8:32:01 GMT -5
Rel 7 wasn’t a very good choice for light bulletsin my 50 cal., very inefficient. N110 worked good in my gun and a friends with 250 gr bullets.
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Post by billc on Aug 5, 2019 15:56:20 GMT -5
I had very good luck with VV110 factory load and 250 gr XTP with MMP sabots (can't recall if they were the HPH 12 or 24) in a 50 cal ML II.
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Post by parkj5 on Aug 6, 2019 18:38:05 GMT -5
Sounds great thanks guys ill pick the v110 up and give it a try.
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Post by reloader22 on Aug 6, 2019 19:00:03 GMT -5
Before you marry yourself to a bunch of powder and bullets in a .50 I would recommend starting with a .458 bullet of almost any type in the 250-300 gr weight. Load them in Harvestor crushed rib sabots and pack them tight on the charge. Large doses of H4198 will give you 2500-2700 fps+ and light doses of book powders will give you 1500-1700 fps. I have found that .458 diameter bullets do more for a .50 cal smokeless load than any other variable. Good bullets would be the Hornady 250 monoflex, 325 FTX, Rem 300 gr HP from experience. I am sure other .458's would work well. .451's with a tighter HPH12 MMP are still looser feeling to me than the above combo's and there is more "petal slop" with the .451's. Smokeless seems to want to be tight and also minimal sabot slop. This also has shown, to me, to be less critical of barrel heat than any .451 in any sabot. Every barrel is different so your results may vary. Tight seems to be right in a stock Savage in .50.
I have become a wuss with my ML and tend to load lightly for what is capable to be done. In this case almost all combo's of .451 or .458 bullets in sabots that go easy down the barrel are 2 MOA loads and kill every deer I decide to kill. If you are a woods guy, you can do great with reduced loads that feel like shooting a .243 yet poke huge holes and bust every bone in a whitetails shoulder at 1,600 fps. .454 casull performance and way more power that a 44 mag. Just sayin from being there.
4759 is a great powder for these loads. Light charges, instant ignition in the cold, and low recoil. 5744 is similar in all aspects, more easily available and more dirty but who cares. A swab no and than and still cleaner than a BP gun.
Cheers
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Post by GMB54-120 on Aug 8, 2019 9:08:35 GMT -5
Light amounts of N110 will do everything 5744 will do. Excellent powder for 300gr reduced loads and typical power 250gr loads. Plus it will smoke 5744 in cleanliness and velocity if you want more speed. Sadly 4759 is no longer available. It was a great all around powder.
My best luck with N110 has been in the 39-41gr range. You lose very little speed using a bit less powder than "book loads" and its still rock solid dependable.
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