well, hell.
it's june 18, and i am wearing a wool shirt to keep warm in the house. in a normal year in these parts, i would be sweltering while the temperature flirted with 100+ degrees fahrenheit.
the battery on my cell phone is dead, and when i went out to get in the car and have store bought breakfast, i find that the car battery is, well, dead as a post too.
no one, and i mean no one, has sent me an email, and by this time of the morning i am usually inundated with bare titties, old car and old timey reminiscences, and letters of various degrees of patriotism or spirituality importuning me not to break the chain or face dire consequences. hell, i haven't even got any bills in the mail.
so, ... .
i am cooking 4 link sausages in the pan, i am toasting a bagel, and i've got two eggs to bring the whole thing up just waiting on the coaster on the stove top. and, a fresh brewed cup of coffee awaits on the counter. no spuds, though. fresh out of spuds.
i guess i will eat breakfast, and take my blood pressure pill.
well, hell. nothing to be done about it, i suppose, except to go into the basement and load some ammo for pressure testing.
i have a new load i am developing for my 6.8mm remington spc, to be shot out of a 20" e.r. shaw barrel in an ar-15 barrel. oops, some bagel just popped up in the toaster, back in a flash.--
i've been toying with a load consisting of a 110 grain hornady bthp, part no. 27200, in front of 29.3 grains of h-322 and remington cases and cci no. 200 large rifle primers. it comes from the muzzle at about 2600 to 2625 feet per second, and gives early indications that it will shoot pretty well.
now, if you've been following this "saga" for the past several years, you will remember that my early attempts to get the e.r. shaw barrel to shoot didn't go very well, and i cussed the barrel. but, when i finally followed some friendly advice received at the range, and went to a slightly faster powder range than what i had been shooting, ... , well, then, the rifle & e.r. shaw barrel began to exhibit very good accuracy.
it is to the point that if a load won't go slightly below an inch on a dependable basis that is not "satisfactory." and, that's where i am right now. the above load is a bit erratic right now, so i am going to mess around, increase the load/decrease the load by a tenth of a grain or so, and see if i can find a sweet spot. if i do, i will rustle up a couple hundred rounds of ammo, or so, and see how it goes.
and, i came across some funky old 7mm bullets the other day, and i may do some experimenting with them. i have some friends who do estate sales, yard sales with a passion, and one of them came up with a pristine box of herter's 175 grain round-nose .284 caliber bullets.--
dang me. i made a boo boo flipping one of the eggs. oh, well.
got to looking at the bullets, and they sort of impressed me with being kind of sleek for round nosed bullets. so, i am gonna load some up in my seven mag just for shits and giggles, and load them to a fairly moderate velocity, say 2650 to 2700 feet per second. they can be my "timber loads." plus, i think the old dears will look pretty good, in a sort of bette davis entering middle age sort of way.
but, back to the subject at hand.
when i find a sweet spot for this load, then i will load it in production quantities, and see how she shoots then. it may become a "substitute standard" load for the load i thought that i had settled on, that being the 115 grain sierra at 2500 feet per second plus.
it shoots wonderfully, when i do my part.
well, to breakfast.
john jay @ 06.18.2011
p.s. i'd starve as a short order cook, ... , i always goober the eggs. oh, well ... .
[note to self: far too many "well(s)." oh, well.]
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