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I have about 7 lbs. of TAC. I may give that a try in better weather.
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The 198 grain Portuguese ball ammo had 43-45 grains of flake or ball powder in the several thousand two different lots I had. Full pressure ammo and top notch.
That load weight gives you some idea of burn rate. I pulled some fmj’s and seated 200 Speer bullets for hunting. Great load. Hammered big North country deer. Heck, that would probably work just fine for elk and anything else you might run across. The only downside to that is the danged corrosive primers in the military brass.
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The Portuguese 198 grain machine gun ammo was non corrosive. I should have bought much more of it. 1200 round case. I saved a few for the last 35 years.
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That's always nice. Non corrosive and non com block hard primers.
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Hornady used to make an 8x57 load that was 2550 fps with their 195 Interlock. That is the benchmark load that I would like to duplicate. One of the things that gets me is that the Germans loaded the cartridge with a 198 at 2575 fps. Why is it so hard to get there now and keep it accurate? Surely, modern powders can get us there. Hell, I've been temped to pull down some S&B 196 SPCE and replace the bullets with 195 Interlocks and be done with it. If S&B can sling that pig SPCE at 2,600 why can't anyone else seem to even get close? I know, I know .318 vs .323 bores. It would be nice if they were kept as separate cartridges at SAAMI. Old commission Gewhar 88 rifles vs 98s and modern actions. I developed a load about a year ago with the 200gr Nosler Accubond and 47.5gr of Varget. Accuracy for my gun is 4 shots around ¾inch. Some days even better. It gave a velocity of 2533 from a avg of 5 shots.
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Hornady used to make an 8x57 load that was 2550 fps with their 195 Interlock. That is the benchmark load that I would like to duplicate. One of the things that gets me is that the Germans loaded the cartridge with a 198 at 2575 fps. Why is it so hard to get there now and keep it accurate? Surely, modern powders can get us there. Hell, I've been temped to pull down some S&B 196 SPCE and replace the bullets with 195 Interlocks and be done with it. If S&B can sling that pig SPCE at 2,600 why can't anyone else seem to even get close? I know, I know .318 vs .323 bores. It would be nice if they were kept as separate cartridges at SAAMI. Old commission Gewhar 88 rifles vs 98s and modern actions. I developed a load about a year ago with the 200gr Nosler Accubond and 47.5gr of Varget. Accuracy for my gun is 4 shots around ¾inch. Some days even better. It gave a velocity of 2533 from a avg of 5 shots. That is pretty awesome. I have an 8 pounder of Varget that I almost never use. I can never get my loads to match Nosler's data that well.
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I prefer classic.
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I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
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