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A gun is only going to shoot one load to the same point of aim, why mess with changing the combinations? I use one load/caliber, set the Dillon up and reload. Anything less isn't really shooting, it is tinkering... ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/115_2135.jpg)
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Of all the rifles I have & all the loads I've worked up for each, once I begin to hunt with them I always stick with one load, one bullet.
Do you? Mostly.....yes.  + 1 
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I get a 270,the first (and usually last)thing up the spout is a 130 Partition and the right charge of H4831.A 130 Sierra usually groups right with it so I use those for practice. There are usually a few hundred of each around.
In a 300 mag it was pretty much always a 180 gr Partition,although I've used a 165 and a 200 gr.I have not loaded anything but a 165 gr bullet in a 30/06 sine the late 70' sometime.
A 160 gr in the 7mm magnums and a 140 gr in the smaller 7mm's has always worked for me.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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I shoot the 257 ackley 120gr nosler partitions and the close as i come is my 30-06 likes 150 gr hornadays both with 4895.
I can buy powder in bulk.
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Of all the rifles I have & all the loads I've worked up for each, once I begin to hunt with them I always stick with one load, one bullet.
Do you? Yes Sir, one load per weapon, a max power/accuracy load that will exploit all the game killing power one cartridge can provide, and I do like heavy bullets driven fast. A few examples: 8-Bore 850 gr Round Ball 577 Nitro 750 gr softs and solids Barnes 500 Nitro 570 gr softs and solids Barnes 505 Gibbs 600 gr softs and solids Woodleigh 50-110 WCF 525 gr Cast Performance WFNGC 45-120 Sharps 505 gr FNSP 458 WM 500 gr softs and solids Hornady 416 Taylor 400 gr soft points Hornady 375 AI 270 gr TSX's 38-55 WCF 265 gr Beartooth LFNGC 9.3-62mm 320 gr softs Woodleigh 338-378 WM 225 gr TTSX's 338 WM 250 gr Swift A Frame 303 British 215 gr softs Woodleigh 300 H&H 200 gr Swift A Frame 300 WM 200 gr Partition 30-06 200 gr Partitions 300 Savage 180 gr Speer RNSP [HC] 30-30 WCF 170 gr Partition 7X57mm 175 gr Speer Grand Slam 270 WCF 150 gr Partition 6.5-55mm 140 gr Partition Have used my 25-06 AI with hyper-speed light weight monos [100 gr TTSX's @3550 fps] but usual standard hunting cartridges start at the 6.5 Swede and go up. Gunner
Trump Won!
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I only shoot one bullet/one load through a given rifle...at a time.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I only shoot one bullet/one load through a given rifle...at a time. Me too, unless a double, doubles.  fork that hurts. Gunner
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.222 50 gr. Hornady
7 MM Mag 175 gr Nosler Part.
30-06 180 gr. Nosler Part.
.35 Rem. 200 gr Rem SP
45/70 425 gr. Beartooth cast
Mostly for deer and elk, except the .222.
Happy Trails!
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Of all the rifles I have & all the loads I've worked up for each, once I begin to hunt with them I always stick with one load, one bullet.
Do you? Yes Sir, one load per weapon, a max power/accuracy load that will exploit all the game killing power one cartridge can provide, and I do like heavy bullets driven fast. A few examples: 8-Bore 850 gr Round Ball 577 Nitro 750 gr softs and solids Barnes 500 Nitro 570 gr softs and solids Barnes 505 Gibbs 600 gr softs and solids Woodleigh 50-110 WCF 525 gr Cast Performance WFNGC 45-120 Sharps 505 gr FNSP 458 WM 500 gr softs and solids Hornady 416 Taylor 400 gr soft points Hornady 375 AI 270 gr TSX's 38-55 WCF 265 gr Beartooth LFNGC 9.3-62mm 320 gr softs Woodleigh 338-378 WM 225 gr TTSX's 338 WM 250 gr Swift A Frame 303 British 215 gr softs Woodleigh 300 H&H 200 gr Swift A Frame 300 WM 200 gr Partition 30-06 200 gr Partitions 300 Savage 180 gr Speer RNSP [HC] 30-30 WCF 170 gr Partition 7X57mm 175 gr Speer Grand Slam 270 WCF 150 gr Partition 6.5-55mm 140 gr Partition Have used my 25-06 AI with hyper-speed light weight monos [100 gr TTSX's @3550 fps] but usual standard hunting cartridges start at the 6.5 Swede and go up. Gunner Man, your poor wife must stay really busy, loading all that ammo for you...  DF
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Gunner
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Of all the rifles I have & all the loads I've worked up for each, once I begin to hunt with them I always stick with one load, one bullet. Where's the fun in that?
Ben
Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
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When I was young and broke I tried to make one rifle do everything by working up several different loads for it.
Now I have one load for each rifle and lots of rifles.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke 1795
"Give me liberty or give me death"
Patrick Henry 1775
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When I was young and broke I tried to make one rifle do everything by working up several different loads for it.
Now I have one load for each rifle and lots of rifles. +1 DF
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I load heavy high bc bullets in all my rifles and have no need to swap bullets. They are cheap enough to practice with and have a high enough s.d. to perform well at all distances.
300 wm. 208 amax
7 rem mag 162 sst
308 165 Hornady btsp
35 whelen 225 gamekings
30-06 150 swift scirocco ( because I don't handload these)
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For hunting I stay with one load and bullet per rifle except that I work up different loads for 243 Win. It is used for shorter range whitetail deer and longer range varmints. 60 gr vmax Hornadys and 100 gr Hornady sp.
For woods hunting it is 7mm-08 with 139 gr Hornady sp.
For open fields in Tennessee it is 270 Win. Either a Remington 700 with Winchester Super X 130 gr or Savage 110 with Hornady 130 sst. I have now reached a point that I can choose a different rifle for different hunting situations.
If the hunting will be combination of woods and fields, the choice is always the 270 win shooting 130 bullets.
For practice and target shooting I try everything I can get my hands on. The most accurate of all is Savage 7mm-08 with IMR4350 and Hornady 162 SST but the gun weights 12 lbs! It does not hunt often.
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I used to be able to shoot multiple loads, but as I've aged my gun doesn't perform the way it used to. Can get multiple bullets out though...
I couldn't resist, just like I can't resist tinkering w/ my rifles and even though I constantly say I am after that holy grail "one load", truth is I LOVE rifles that can shoot multiple to same POI.
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Yep. I always figured that's the point of reloading. NPs from my 300 ultra dialed in nice and tight so they poke everything from elk to prairie dogs. Keeps life simple.
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57 grs. of H-4831 and a 150 gr. speer hot cor in my 270.All I've used for years.
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Yes, one load with one particular bullet for each rifle, but....
I've been known to change that combination from time to time.
I always look for and load one and often two other loads for practice.
For instance, my current '06 load for my mauser is the 180 gr. factory Federal TTB. The practice load is the 180 gr. Sierra GameKing over 58 grs. of Ramshot Hunter.
My other practice loads are for the shorter ranges, 50-100 yds. For that, I use whatever powder will push a lighter bullet about the same velocity for about the same zero. I find it's a great way to use up bullets and powders that currently are out of favor. I get lots of "get on the target and shot faster" practice that way as well. E
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Of all the rifles I have & all the loads I've worked up for each, once I begin to hunt with them I always stick with one load, one bullet.
Do you? That,s where I'm heading to loder. Got it going on that way for the .280 and 7-08. Working on getting there with the .240 Bee and soon will be the 7x57. Will be doing the same for what ever else ends up in my safe. I much prefer simplicity rather than jumping all over the place.
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