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You will find the Lapua brass very good you shuold notice a difference in you group size's, if thats what your into.

The only gripe i have is if out lamping after Fox's and i loose a case i'm a bit upset at around 70p a go it defeats one of the reasons for home loading.

What i have is a load thats good for 150yds for another rifle that i mostly use whilst lamping and i use brass in that which i dont mind loosing, thats all loaded with a mildish load that groups ok with a batch of Remington and old Nosler brass, they are getting a bit thin on the ground now and once they have all gone will be replaced with Remington brass or any other thats cheap enough.

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update:

I have my new rifle :good: and she's a beaut!

so tried some factory ammo (american eagle FMJ target rounds, they came with the rifle.) and was getting roughly 3.5-4 inch groups at 150 yds which is ok but i have a goal of getting a 1 inch group at 150 yds (maybe a bit ambitious but I'm gone try!)

so did a bit of homeloading with a mate and tried the following load:

-Hornady 52 grain A-max bullet

-Lapua case

-24.9 grains of reloader 15 powder

-CCI 400 small rifle primer

 

I tailored the bullet seating to be as shallow as possible whilst still easy to load into the rifle to engage with the rifling as soon as possible,

acieved a 1.8 inch group at 150yds, now i just need to get rid of that .8inch :lol:

 

could anyone recommend a change somewhere? i.e. different powder? or primer? I'm liking the idea of copper primers to be easier on the firing pin than the steel primers.

 

cheers all!!

 

 

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i reload for my 223 using reloader 15 and reloader 7 .reloader 7 is faster burning powder and with a 50 grain sp and 23.0 grain load cci 400 srp,= fps 3,300 .winchester cases .72" group@150 yds

i use 55 grain hornday bt with reloader 15 and works excellent also

ok if i can get some reloader 7 i'll give it a wirl, the lapua cases I've got are "on loan" from my friend. I've been chewing through the american eagle ammo just so i can re-use the cases and start loading them up.

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