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My 760 that's been rebored to .35 Whelen likes the 59.5 grain load of Reloder 15 and 250-grain Hornady Spire Point load that Alliant listed in their data booklet about 5 years ago. Gets about 2550 fps and 1" accuracy. (When Alliant and Speer became part of the same ATK group, the data listed changed to the 250 Speer Hot-Cor and the maximum load dropped considerably--possibly because of higher pressures with the Speer bullet.) It also likes the maximum 60.5 grain load of Varget listed in the Nosler manual with 225's, for 2700+ fps from my rifle's 22" barrel. It doesn't shoot quite as well as the 250-grain load, but is plenty accurate enough for shooting big game. I thought that load was listed with their 25 gr RN bullet which is much "shorter" below the cannelure? I am many miles away from my data but IIRC I specifcally used the RN bullet and load when working with my old pre-war JP Sauer Sporter. No?
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I have used both the 250Grn Hornady RN and Spire point in my rifle and 59.5 gr RL15 With the RN runs 2495 fps at 15 feet from my 20 inch barrel with no pressure signs. I did not chrono the spire point yet. Bear
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MD,
I have read and reread this post and finally it came to me that one of the confusing aspects of this is that the current(7th ed) Hornady manual shows a max load of 55.1 grains of re 15 with their 250 grain bullets. Can this all be explained by lot to lot variation in powder or differences in bullet bearing surface area?
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No experience with a long gun 35 Whelen, but I had a 35 Whelen in a TC Encore 15" handgun. My load for that was Federal Gold Match large rifle primer, 49.0grs. of IMR 3031 with a Hornady 250gr. round nose. Chronographed this load out of the 15" barrel at 2100fps. and was getting a 5 shot group pretty much one hole group at 50yds. off the bench. Handgun had a 2x scope on it.
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