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Pressure difference?

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21 January 2004, 15:48
cliffs2
Pressure difference?
I got a new Weatherby ULW in 30-06. The temp today was 2 degrees at noon but I had to try it out. I sighted it in with some Rem 150 corelocts and then moved to my reloads. I was getting 2890 fps with the Rems and when I fired the H4350 @ 61 gr I was getting 3029 fps. I worked up from 57 gr of H4350 and was getting 2875 fps at 57 gr (150 gr Hornady). I also shot some 165 Sierra HP gamekings and was getting 2912 fps with 58.5 gr H4350. There was absolutely no sign of pressure and velocities were still rising when I reached the max loads. Will these pressures change when the temperature gets warmer? I kept the reloads in the truck till I was getting ready to shoot them and the barrel was warm enough to give me heat wave problems in the scope. I shot a 1 inch group with the dang Rem 150 factory stuff and am tempted to just use them, but it grinds me no end to shoot something with something I didn't reload. I did not shoot a group with any reloads as I was just checking for pressure and veloccity. Thus I only make 2 of each load and I was just shooting 1 of each as I wanted to get my velocity readings before the dang chrony LCD screen froze.
21 January 2004, 16:09
waitaminit
http://www.benchrest.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9764
22 January 2004, 12:49
denton
Powder temperature matters. Barrel temperature matters much more. You have to consider both variables.

The temperature of the barrel is fairly quickly transmitted to the powder. If you strap a thermocouple to your barrel, just forward of the receiver, do all your shooting at one barrel temperature, and let cartridges sit in the chamber for about 3 minute before firing, you can ignore powder temperature... the powder will be at the temperature of the chamber.