225 Fireman Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I'm brand new to rifle loading and I'm loading for 3 gun. I have 69 SMK bullets and have already got some H335, Varget and Benchmark powders and could use some help if those are good powders to use please give me a starting point including OAL. If I should use something else let me know. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CocoBolo Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) I'm brand new to rifle loading and I'm loading for 3 gun. I have 69 SMK bullets and have already got some H335, Varget and Benchmark powders and could use some help if those are good powders to use please give me a starting point including OAL. If I should use something else let me know. Thanks in advance. Try some searching. But while I am here my load for 69gr SMK is 23.7gr of Ramshot TAC at 2.245 with CCI small Rifle Primers. 2682 fps ES 27 SD 10 at 68 degrees on 1/29/2011, 18" Sabre Defense Barrel with Sabre comp. My next run I am going to try 23.9gr. . Edited January 6, 2012 by CocoBolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiggerJJ Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 yep, do a search, you will find more data than you can digest... I get best results with 24.5-25.5gn Varget with 69gn SMKs, 1.175 trim length, 2.250 OAL, tune OAL (.005 incriments, max mag length is around 2.265) and powder (.25gn incriments) to best accuracy. jj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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