Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 30-06 200gr AB with RL 26

It is really good in a 270 Win BSA. Same for the 7 Rem Mag and 338 Win with 225/250’s.

In my Winchester Featherweight with 22" barrel 62gn of Rel 26 pushes the 200gn Accubond to 2633fps
The same charge behind the 200gn Partition chronographed 2695fps, both using Fed 210's and Winchester brass.
John

Now that you gave it your stamp of approval and two thumbs up BSA is buying all the RL26 in his local area..

That is smokin!! And great info, thanks!

What did you work up in the 7 Rem Mag?

I didn’t do it with any of mine but my partner here used his 70, with 26 and 160 ABs. With a 26” barrel he was kicking along at nearly 3150 and it shot like crazy. I have used it a bunch in the Mashburn and it works great there as well with 130-175’s.

That aughta get it done!

For sure. Ol Bobby wasn’t wrong, a 7 Rem with a great Bullet is a killing SOB.

COL 3.335 is the sweet spot in my model 70.

I'm amazed by all the threads that are titled "Cartridge X and RL26".

May give it a try with both the 180 and 200 Partitions in the Biesen.

Agreed. Its been great for velocity and accuracy in the 22-250, 6.5 CM, 7 WSM, and 300 WSM is what I have tried in in thus far personally. It also pushing 162 ELDX at 2700 fps out of a 24" 7-08 my buddy loaded up for it while I was working up the 7 WSM load. Cool to see there is great potential in it with the 30-06. Will be dorking around with some in that cartridge soon I hope.

Fwiw, I used to shoot the old 162 amax with 46 grains of RL17 for about 2725 out of a 22" 7-08 back when I had one a few years ago. Quickload estimate was that 2750ish would have been absolute top end. One of the guys ran a Quickload for me the other day just for curiosity, and that program thinks you should be able to get 2800 at 60K psi with RL26, if you could get enough in the case. It also thinks 2700 fps is possible with the 180 ELD.

Yep, I remember trying it in the 270 with 150gr. partitions. Still amazed I was getting close to 3,000 fps with that pill in the old pre 64 22" fwt tube... "It's good chit maynard"... I will be giving it a try in my old 06 rifles. One is a short barreled sob, so it's going to be cool to test out the speeds with the good ol 200gr. partition, that that rifle loves..

What my QL says.

Cartridge : .30-06 Spring.
Bullet : .308, 200, Nosler AccuBond 54618
Cartridge O.A.L. L6: 3.335 inch or 84.71 mm
Barrel Length : 24.0 inch or 609.6 mm
Powder : Alliant Reloder-26

Predicted data by increasing and decreasing the given charge,
incremented in steps of 2.0% of nominal charge.
CAUTION: Figures exceed maximum and minimum recommended loads !

Step Fill. Charge Vel. Energy Pmax Pmuz Prop.Burnt B_Time
% % Grains fps ft.lbs psi psi % ms

-20.0 89 49.60 2203 2155 29389 8598 92.6 1.641
-18.0 91 50.84 2267 2282 31639 8874 94.1 1.592
-16.0 93 52.08 2331 2414 34090 9129 95.5 1.543
-14.0 95 53.32 2396 2549 36759 9362 96.7 1.496
-12.0 98 54.56 2460 2689 39673 9571 97.7 1.443
-10.0 100 55.80 2525 2832 42857 9753 98.5 1.392
-08.0 102 57.04 2590 2979 46346 9906 99.1 1.342
-06.0 104 58.28 2654 3129 50175 10028 99.6 1.294 ! Near Maximum !
-04.0 106 59.52 2719 3282 54388 10118 99.9 1.248 ! Near Maximum !
-02.0 109 60.76 2782 3438 59036 10175 100.0 1.203 !DANGEROUS LOAD-DO NOT USE!
+00.0 111 62.00 2846 3597 64177 10211 100.0 1.160 !DANGEROUS LOAD-DO NOT USE!

Great Info. Thanks I don’t own a 7-08 but I will pass it along for him to try. What was the quickload fill volumes for those charges. I can’t recall what load the mat got him to 2700 but I do know there wasn’t much space in the case left.

Well, I specified that it be run at 2.900", so keep that in mind. At that seating depth, it looks like Quickload estimates 50.98 grains would be 113% case fill for 2806 fps and 60,290 psi from a 22" barrel.

I sold my 7-08 years ago, so I can't tell you how much might fit. But I can tell you that 50 grains of RL26 fits in my Norma .243 brass pretty easily...

The 180 run, also at 2.900", estimates 49.71 grains at 112% case fill for 2705 fps at 63,286 psi from a 22" barrel.

Sorry for the derailment. Although a 7-08 is basically just a small 30-06. Same SD for the same velocity with the same powders, for the most part. Just like they're both just small 338 Win Mags...

On the subject of 30-06's with 200 grain accubonds, one of my M70 featherweight's favorite loads is 54.5 grains of RL17 behind the 200 Accubond for a bit over 2700 fps. That's the first load this rifle ever consistently grouped under MOA. I'm currently out of 200's, but I did load up some 180 BT's with RL26 to try out based on successful results by a member on another forum. Looks like 2900+ should be possible with 180's, even with my 22" barrel.

Thanks well within the 65k as mule deer said with 06 you get leeway because they load 06 tp 60k compared to 65k for the 270.

Tried RL 26 , RP case, CCI 200 primer, Nosler 200 GR Accu Bond, 22" Ruger LH 30-06 34 F . So so accuracy. Mild pressures.

59.5 GR RL 26 2520 FPS, 60 GR RL 26 2533 FPS, 60.5 RL 26 2560 FPS, 61 RL 26 2572 FPS, 61.5 RL 26 2587 FPS, 62 RL 26 2622 FPS.

RL 17 55 GR, Fed 215 Pr, 200 GR Nosler Accu Bond 2710 FPS, same rifle better accuracy.

Felt recoil a lot more with RL 26 than RL 17. Going to stick with my RL 17 loads.

I got my stuff dialed now I’m down to deciding on primers. Right now it’s between WLR or FED 210. CCI 200 was the worse grouping of the 4 primers I tried. The other were rem 9 1/2. Also seating them at 3.330 for the Fed 210 and 3.335 for the WLR. You will be surprised what happens when you switch primers. Anyhow I’m using this rifle as is with these 200gr AB for my DS102 sheep hunt.