700 Nitro Express
We built this rifle on a 50 BMG single shot action, and a 23 1/5" barrel made in Ferlach, Austria. The rifle weighs in at 18 1/4 pounds. We used Searcy brass and Federal 215 primers. We had hang fires in all the loads we tried, until we used 2 grains of Alliant Bullseye to help ignite the powder charge. No hang fires were experienced in any of the loads with 2 grains of Bullseye. The load with 250 grains of VVN 160 is maximum. 5 more grains of powder resulted in a very stiff bolt, and when opened we found the primer has fallen out of the case.
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POWDER |
VELOCITY |
ENERGY |
BULLET |
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2 + 235 H 5010 |
1766 |
6930 |
1000 WOODLEIGH SP |
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2 + 220 VVN 165 |
2082 |
9630 |
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2 + 225 |
2099 |
9790 |
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2 + 230 |
2129 |
10070 |
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2 + 235 |
2150 |
10270 |
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2 + 240 |
2170 |
10460 |
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2 + 245 |
2260 |
11340 |
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2 + 250 |
2334 |
12100 |
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2 + 255 |
2241 |
11150 |
1000 DKT SP |
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2 + 200 VVN 560 |
1975 |
8660 |
1000 WOODLEIGH |
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2 + 235 |
2086 |
9660 |
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2 + 245 |
2286 |
11610 |
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2 + 170 RL 15 |
2011 |
8980 |
1000 DKT SP |
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2 + 180 |
2052 |
9350 |
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2 + 190 |
2227 |
11020 |
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2 + 250 VVN 160 |
2442 |
13240 |
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2 + 255 |
2547 |
14560 |
BLEW THE PRIMER |
Last Updated April
28th, 2001
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