ORIGINAL: bowbender6
Working up a load – Advice
If you had ten bullets to try, how would you work up a load? Start at 100 grains?
80,100,120 or vary by 5 grains? I have been at this only a couple of years but is seems every time I go up in powder the group gets larger. I heard sometimes there is a sweet spot, but I have not seen it yet.
I am trying a lot of combo in my new .45 but not much promising yet. I’ll try to post the targets in another post when I have more time.
Thoughts?
My Savage said 44g of AA 5744, so I started at the manufacturer recommended load and powder. That shot well, 1.5" group. So I shot every bullet at that load of powder, found the ones that grouped the best and then used those. Once I selected the bullet then you vary up and down, from that starting point. If your only shooting 1 bullet you can start at 85g, but it will take a while to get to 100 or 110 which is where most 1:28 guns shoot best with 300g bullets. Chap