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34 grain Dogtowns - please share your load!
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:17 pm
by acloco
Anybody got a sweetheart of a load for the Midway Dogtowns? Have 492 of these bullets digging a hole in my reloading bench.
I shot 8 in a ladder test with CCI Magnum primers under 27.4 to 28.1 of H4895 - looks very promising!
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:19 pm
by WrzWaldo
Lemme go look through my loads. Seems like my XR-100 really liked 27.7 of H4895 and BR4 primers.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:10 pm
by glenn asher
Benchmark has possibilities with the 34s in my rifle, probably your rifle, too
I haven't had time to mess around with them yet, just a couple of groups with 26.6 gr. It was under an inch, barely, but I wasn't really warmed up yet, either. That's my story, etc, etc.
I'm gonna try some 2230-C next time out, and maybe some with DP #68, too, and see about refining the Benchmark. I just don't have enough time
to get much done. Been stove up with a bum knee for two weeks, weather good, knee badddddddddd.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:00 pm
by acloco
Thanks.
Anybody else?
I am going to try some Benchmark as well.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:06 pm
by WrzWaldo
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:54 am
by Robert harrel
all i have tried with the 34 DT was 26.6 of benchmark .75" @ 3770 with my cooper and 1 1/2" @ 3619 with rem 700 both with cci 450 i tried because its one my best with 35 bergers .211 @ 3868 fps in the cooper w 26" bbl and .587 @ 3720 with a 24 " bbl on the remi. edited for velocity on the DT also noticed these ran slower than the 35 bergers
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:48 am
by skb2706
My load was
34 gr. Dogtown HP .204"
29.3 gr. of WW748
BR-4 primer
WW cases 5 times fired
Just a point I observed. They must have the worst BC of any 20 cal bullet, definitely the worst I have tried. I used up my last of them this last weekend and I will never use them again. For a couple bucks more I will stick with Vmaxs and BKs that handle the ballistics much better. Cheap ineffective bullets can ruin a trip. Luckily I only had a 100 or so with me but if I would have relied on them exclusively I would not have been happy. They will reduce a 400 yd. rifle to 250 yd. rifle ........JMHO
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:57 pm
by Yotecallr
I just tried some CMR100 powder I bought from Jeff Bartlett a few years ago, 8 lbs and it shot well with that load and Dogtown bullets, the powder is no longer available. Here is a group I shot at 100 yrds while breaking in my L-W barrel.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d21/Y ... eb07-2.jpg
