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slowpoke wrote:I guess I had an idea that was the case, but why was the soot only present around the extractor groove portion of the case. Wouldn't the soot have to travel past the case walls to get there? I'm fairly new to reloading and very new to the 450 so please don't be afraid to dumb it down for me or even draw me a picture
slowpoke wrote:Well, I went back and tried again with much better success this time. I changed to the 225 grain FTX and Lil Gun powder. I started at 39 grains and went up to 41 grains going up 1/2 grain each time, loading 4 of each charge. I am seating to 2.122" and taper crimping to what calipers show to be 0.474". There was no soot on any cases and the accuracy was very pleasing, especially the 41 grain load. The gun is a Remington R-15 VTR and I have a Leupold VX3 2.5-8x36 scope on it. It shot a three hole four shot group at 100 yards with the three holes touching. Gun season starts here on Saturday and I look forward to deflating a whitetail with it.
Just for what its worth, I bought a Limbsaver recoil pad to replace the plastic meat tenderizer the gun came with. Man, what a difference!
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