My gas gun load development

[Burt Gummer]

I just recently ran some loads with W748 topped off with some 100 gn Speer soft point boat tails. These were pulled bullets I got from American Reloading and the points on some of them were flattened because they pulled them wrong.

I did not load these for anything special, mostly to fireform some brass. But was some what surprised at the level of accuracy with them running a light load. I did not chrono them but they were hitting point of aim consistantly once the scope was dialed in for them. And it did burn clean and the cases would eject and you could pick them up and they were actually pretty cool, and the barrel didn't heat up as well.

Maybe I should try a load development using some good 90 to 100 gn bullets, I know velocity will be down with this powder but if it performs accurately it might be worth using since I have about 9 or 10 lbs of the stuff.

Good to hear. Hopefully the Sierra 100 gr bullets I picked up will like it just as much. It’s not going to give you the LVR velocity but it seems like it might be a great alternative. Even for what I’m doing the 2458 fps paired with a extremely high BC bullet is an easy 1000 yard round in an 18” package. That just seems too cool to be real so happy to use it if it’s the only powder I can shoot at or under .5 MOA with. Not giving up on LVR quite yet but time for this hobby is limited.