You need to try some 140 JLK's.
Have you tried H1000, or Retumbo?
I've Had my comp 6.5 SAUM one week, and have put 465 rounds through it already....hope I have some barrel left for my shoot next month..grin!
Wow, you'd be about 40% or more into the life of a 26 Nos tube...
You gotta remember, I'm a hunter not a LR steel clanger. I don't know what kinda terminal perfromance I'd see with JLK's. I do have some left over from my 6.5-284 project and may load a batch.
My Fire bud, who's also working with the 26, was pleased with 136L Scenar, getting great groups and good performance on hogs. Then he tried the 127 LRX. That bullet seems to run faster than about any and has fairly decent B.C.'s for it's type. He's about decided that at hypervelocity, he has more confidence in mono-metals.
From everything I've read and seen, 869 is THE 26 Nos powder, with 872 pretty close. 872 is reportedly slower, but I can't tell much difference. To me they're just about interchangeable. One would think Retumbo, RL-50, etc. would work. They do, just not as well.
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