by know you all know that I'm working up loads for a 30-06 for which all prior reloading knowledge was lost when my grandfather died in 1982.

so I am using a slightly modified CA-method...

working only with 4064 right now because I can't find 4350 and no one seems to reccomend 4831 for 150gr bullets (which I'm limiting myself to for a couple of reasons).

I have an old redding powder measure with adjustments in "gr" that seem pretty spot-on (I use a setting correlating to 53.8 for my 54.0gr 35Whelen loads.

I only have an old manual balance-scale so I didn't feel like hand-weighing every single load. so I started at an "indicated" 54.0gr on the powder measure and worked down in .5gr increments all the way to 48.0. I did two of each and discarded the first pour after each adjustment of the measure to let it "settle".

then I loaded one of each weight with a Barnes TSX and then the other with the Hornady GMX.

all loaded to +/- 0.005 of 3.330, which is generally the longest you can load something and have it fit in the magazine of the rifle. with the non-lead "monometal" bullets with very sleek profiles, I'm actually seating them fairly deep into the case, so that should help combat the substantial jump to the lands that I expect.

sunday afternoon/evening i'll get it "on target" @ ~250yds with some leftover 165s (300 means significant elevation changes, and i want to avoid that), then Monday AM i'll shoot 26 rounds at two targets and see what we have.

at some point I'll have to get off the crude-scale powder measure and actually scale the loads, but that can be done after I have a "ballpark" number from this first batch.

anything I'm missing?

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Originally posted by Dark Helmet:
anything I'm missing?

Looks like a good start to me. Only thing I'd see you are missing is:

When people refer to a rifle as "ugly," what they are really saying a Termite Food stocked, constantly Rusting Blue Mouser or rag M70!

DH, What is it w/ new reloaders wanting to shoot at 250/300 yards?
Do your load development at a measured 100 yds from a solid rest. IF you are looking for the loads that shoot best in your rifle---take all the controllable variables out of the equation.
Second, if you are looking for copenhagen can sized groups, your're on the right track. If you want better groups--weigh each charge of powder--the bb scale will work fine.

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Originally posted by aliveincc:
DH, What is it w/ new reloaders wanting to shoot at 250/300 yards?

the creighton whatsisname load development method method says shoot at 300... so, that's what I'm going to do.

and I hunt at those distances, so I need to shoot at those distances.