I come here seeking knowledge with what will hopefully be an interesting topic for some and may hopefully help others on similar journeys.
Recently I purchased an older Silhouette rifle from an estate sale. The rifle is a Remington 700 SA ADL on a typical synthetic stock. It does have a Timney trigger and is bedded. It sported a 22" stainless heavy barrel that didn't appear to have any markings on it. Caliber to the seller was unknown. It also had a Leuopold VXiii3 scope on it. It also came with some forming dies and other reloading "things"
Since I reload and collect; I figured, heck, take a chance on it, see what it is and then go from there. If I use for parts, ok, whatever.
I got it home and disassembled it. On the barrel's underside was marked 7MM-INT. Also stamped on the barrel are "BDL" and "1-87".
After doing some research I landed on this rifle being chambered in 7mmIHMSA. Now this IS NOT the cartridge based on the 30-30. This is based on the 300SAV case.
After figuring all this out, I now find myself in a situation, where I want to work up and develop a load for it and shoot it, because I haven't run across something that someone obviously put a lot of time into personally building this gun to make it competitive and then unfortunately passed away and now I have it. It was for silhouette and the widower said he built it "for the rams". So researching that the gun should be good for .5 MOA. I have wanted to work on my precision shooting more and felt hey why not cut my teeth on this. I have figured out how to form cases and I am ready to begin loading. Now to my dilemma...
I have reloaded thousands of pistol rounds and hundreds of rifle rounds. I have NEVER attempted to reload for precision accuracy or even know how to start load development for this project. With pistol and AR; I didn't put too much thought into it, worked up something that felt right and performed, and boom done. With this I know I need a crono, BUT, can anyone get me started? Does anyone have experience with this round (not the 30-30 version)? Anyone have some pointers? I have some recipe's from one of my manuals "Sierra Rifle and Handgun Reloading Data", but other than those (and they all use sierra bullets) I got nothing.
So to boil it all down, Requesting Pointers on Precision Rifle Load workup AND Requesting tips and pointers for 7mmIHMSA (300SAV) load development.
Thanks All
Recently I purchased an older Silhouette rifle from an estate sale. The rifle is a Remington 700 SA ADL on a typical synthetic stock. It does have a Timney trigger and is bedded. It sported a 22" stainless heavy barrel that didn't appear to have any markings on it. Caliber to the seller was unknown. It also had a Leuopold VXiii3 scope on it. It also came with some forming dies and other reloading "things"
Since I reload and collect; I figured, heck, take a chance on it, see what it is and then go from there. If I use for parts, ok, whatever.
I got it home and disassembled it. On the barrel's underside was marked 7MM-INT. Also stamped on the barrel are "BDL" and "1-87".
After doing some research I landed on this rifle being chambered in 7mmIHMSA. Now this IS NOT the cartridge based on the 30-30. This is based on the 300SAV case.
After figuring all this out, I now find myself in a situation, where I want to work up and develop a load for it and shoot it, because I haven't run across something that someone obviously put a lot of time into personally building this gun to make it competitive and then unfortunately passed away and now I have it. It was for silhouette and the widower said he built it "for the rams". So researching that the gun should be good for .5 MOA. I have wanted to work on my precision shooting more and felt hey why not cut my teeth on this. I have figured out how to form cases and I am ready to begin loading. Now to my dilemma...
I have reloaded thousands of pistol rounds and hundreds of rifle rounds. I have NEVER attempted to reload for precision accuracy or even know how to start load development for this project. With pistol and AR; I didn't put too much thought into it, worked up something that felt right and performed, and boom done. With this I know I need a crono, BUT, can anyone get me started? Does anyone have experience with this round (not the 30-30 version)? Anyone have some pointers? I have some recipe's from one of my manuals "Sierra Rifle and Handgun Reloading Data", but other than those (and they all use sierra bullets) I got nothing.
So to boil it all down, Requesting Pointers on Precision Rifle Load workup AND Requesting tips and pointers for 7mmIHMSA (300SAV) load development.
Thanks All