34 grain Dogtowns - please share your load!

acloco · Post by **acloco** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:17 pm

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!

WrzWaldo · Post by **WrzWaldo** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:19 pm

Lemme go look through my loads. Seems like my XR-100 really liked 27.7 of H4895 and BR4 primers.

glenn asher · Post by **glenn asher** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:10 pm

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.

acloco · Post by **acloco** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:00 pm

Thanks.

Anybody else?

I am going to try some Benchmark as well.

WrzWaldo · Post by **WrzWaldo** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:06 pm

There was some stuff in these threads.

http://www.rugerhunting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2915

http://www.rugerhunting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2595

Robert harrel · Post by **Robert harrel** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:54 am

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

skb2706 · Post by **skb2706** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:48 am

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

Yotecallr · Post by **Yotecallr** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:57 pm

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