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Post by speedrackin on Jul 19, 2017 11:18:33 GMT -5
just finished up shootin the encore 35 whelen .......mine has a factory fluted stainless 28" and it loves that hornady superformance factory ammo box says 2920 fps my chrono says 3 shot average 3030 . Ive tried to duplicate the accuracy and speed of the factory ..... looks like i will be buyin factory ammo .
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Post by dennis on Jul 19, 2017 12:04:54 GMT -5
I have a friend who has the 35 whelen encore barrel also. He has never used any factory ammo and made his own brass, I will see what bullet/powder/primer combo he is using, he says it is really accurate. Maybe same load will be good for you too.
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Post by speedrackin on Jul 19, 2017 16:08:09 GMT -5
sounds good ive only played with 200 grn ftx and speer 180 .....with almost every powder listed for it i havce gotten some nice groups . but nothin like those superformance . its going to be a whitetail thumper so buying factory ammo is no big deal i wont be killin lots of paper with at at $36 a box . Its just the satisfaction of reloading ur own . Altough it makes me wonder how a 700 rem\brux smokeless would roll
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Post by dennis on Jul 19, 2017 16:30:30 GMT -5
I will see him at church this evening and get him to give me the info. He chronos and records everything he shoots in about 30 different rifles. I will PM you the information.
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Post by joelmoney on Jul 22, 2017 20:53:41 GMT -5
sounds good ive only played with 200 grn ftx and speer 180 .....with almost every powder listed for it i havce gotten some nice groups . but nothin like those superformance . its going to be a whitetail thumper so buying factory ammo is no big deal i wont be killin lots of paper with at at $36 a box . Its just the satisfaction of reloading ur own . Altough it makes me wonder how a 700 rem\brux smokeless would roll Did you ever get to try the 180 Speer bullets on game? Very interested in preformance. My 35 Whelen experience is only with 225 Sierras at about 2700 fps atop a charge of IMR 4064. That load dropped a lot of deer in their tracks and the few it didn't did not go far.
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Post by speedrackin on Jul 24, 2017 9:34:53 GMT -5
Not yet just put it together over the spring thats the plan for this fall thump a couple.....im thinkin about building a 700 brux in a smokeless version or maybe an encore custom barrel in smokeless
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Post by tedb on Aug 6, 2017 22:50:04 GMT -5
Don't use the Speer 180 I did hit shoulder and it shattered not the shoulder the 180 but that was on a small black bear have real good results with superproframce on deer and up
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