Ran some RE 26 in the 26" factory 7 Rem Mag with 160 Accubonds today.
New Fed Brass, Rem 9 1/2 Mag Primers, .040 off the lands at 3.325" COAL.
RE26 VEL
64gr - 2820
65gr - 2873
66gr - 2912
67gr - 2955
67.5gr - 2974
I only shot two shots of each... and accuracy showed a lot of promise. I stopped at 67.5 because that's all I had loaded up, extraction was smooth and primers at 67.5 look no different from those at 64 grains.... I think there's still room to run. I'll load a few more up to 69 or so and see if/where we top out.
One guy on Reloadersnest was running 69 gr. RL-26 with CCI 250's, pushing a 160 gr. HPBT at 3,090 fps. He wrote that 73 gr. Retumbo gave the same velocity. I was thinking RL-26 was slower than Retumbo. According to that, probably not. These are not certified loads, so proceed accordingly.
DF
