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.460 rifle loads [message #30708]

Thu, 17 April 2014 13:38

captaincaveman
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Registered: September 2012
Location: S.E. Ohio

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we can use straight walled rifles for deer in Ohio this year, so I am going with a .460...either 20' katadin or 24" MGM, haven't decided which yet...any recommended loads? All I can really find is pistol data

thanks
Josh

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30724 is a reply to message #30708]

Fri, 18 April 2014 13:32

rchatting
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Location: Middle Georgia

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Just use the pistol data. Chamber pressure is the same regardless of barrel length. May get 30-60 fps more per inch of barrel increase. Since you are using a longer barrel, I would shade toward the slowest burning powders that you have reload data for to get maximum bang for your barrel length. Smile

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30730 is a reply to message #30724]

Fri, 18 April 2014 20:13

sunnysmarine
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Location: CA

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my barrel loves H110 with 250 or 300 gr bullets

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30732 is a reply to message #30730]

Fri, 18 April 2014 21:57

captaincaveman
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Location: S.E. Ohio

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sunnysmarine wrote on Fri, 18 April 2014 20:13

my barrel loves H110 with 250 or 300 gr bullets

have you chronyd that load? 20 or 24 inch? grains of H110?

thanks
Josh

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30733 is a reply to message #30732]

Fri, 18 April 2014 22:24

sunnysmarine
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250 gr FTX 45gr H110, 300 gr XTP 40 gr H110 going fast is not what I look at what makes the best groups, from my 20" barrel I get a clover leaf group at 50 yards and .75 at 100 Max loads just got louder and the mule just kicked harder, I wish other powders preformed this well in my barrel H110 is a dirty powder but accurate

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30735 is a reply to message #30733]

Fri, 18 April 2014 22:55

jamesgammel
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Registered: August 2012
Location: Lovell, Wyoming

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Josh,

Sunny's spot on. YES, Speed kills. But more-so on freeways and in the druggie world than in the hunting field. A dead deer or moose isn't going to care is that 250 or 300 grain bullet "should" have been going 50 feet per second faster. Fast and in a bad spot is a wounded animal. Slow and in a deadly spot will be a dead dear, cleanly killed. Now crazy slow like subsonic is an entirely different matter. I'd much rather be a hunting partner with someone like sunny, than someone whose primary focus is on bullet velocity being as fast as he can get it.
Jim

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30737 is a reply to message #30735]

Fri, 18 April 2014 23:42

captaincaveman
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Registered: September 2012
Location: S.E. Ohio

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absolutely...been working up blackpowder loads for my flintlocks and caplocks for years....a slow hit is always better than a fast miss?

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Re: .460 rifle loads [message #30738 is a reply to message #30737]

Sat, 19 April 2014 00:02

sunnysmarine
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Now Jim dont be knockin the subsonic's some of us sensitive types need to soften up a bit.

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