load for my 180 home swaged

well I have a lot of IMR 4350 I am thinking about starting with about 54.0 gr and working up 1 grain at a time to 56. 56.5 is max doing 5 shot groups and see what they do shoot five clean shoot five more. .. what do y'all think what is your go to load I need to know soon LOL so I can stop at grafs and get a pound of powder if 4350 isnt my best bet for these 180 grain bullets. LMAO For 30-06 i guess it would help to know what round.

in my years of reloading, caliber is a very important part to the equation

XbonesX wrote:in my years of reloading, caliber is a very important part to the equation

Yea I realized i didnt say if was for my 30-06. that would help a lot I know

I've never used 4350...
I used to use 4895 for 30-06, but have since changed to Varget....since I use Varget in about everything else for rifles and Varget is very similar to 4895. I think it only requires around 46gr of Varget in 30-06. But then again, I've never loaded anything heavier than 168gr either.

That's about a 10gr savings per round as compared to 4350.

Not sure about the heavier '06 round but I have had excellent results in 130 gr 270 loads.I normally use 52 gr IMR 4895 for 150gr '06. It's a little light but I seem to get better groups from the Rem. 742

well my step daughter is graduating in MI this weekend so the wife is up there and has the camera. and VCR LOL all I have is my cell phone we will see what kind of pics i can get with that.
any way since I only have a little less than a pound of varget and I personally believe its too fast for 180gr 06 and I have like 6 ish pounds left in a 8lb can of IMR4350 I went with 4350. I do have a pound of H414 if i don't get good results with the 4350 i will try that. and if that fails i will get a pound of 4895 and see what happens.

So I loaded up 5 at 53.0, and increased .5 grains to max at 56.5 I didn't sort the cases other than i made sure i didn't have any mil surp. cases. I am using CCI LR primer. I plan on doing a thorough cleaning of my Rem 700 30-06 Shoot five Clean shoot five etc and see what happens. More than target placement I will be looking for groups. I want a tight group no matter where it lands on the target. Once I have a consistent load found I will zero with that. and then beware Bambi I have something for your A#$

That sounds like a good plan. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that your best group will be with 54.5 - 55 gr of 4350 lol! Use lighter ones on Bambi, save these 180's for Bambi's grand daddy It will be interesting to see how this one comes together.

well Cuss words .... I took the scope off of my 700 and put it on my savage 12 and i figured wtf and put a tasco on my 700 BAD IDEA. What a worthless POS well untill I can afford a NIKON for my 700 its not going to be used for anything. So I pulled out my Dads 742 because I know it has a good zero and is holding good. The next up was 53.5 they shot an ok group but Im not trusting that I had a good rest. I guess It will be up to John to see if these bullets are any good. That 700 was the closest thing I had to any kind of a target quality rifle in 30 cal.

when i was loading for 30-06 i used varget for my 180 grains with good results cant remember the exact charge its wrote in my book somewhere i can look it up if your interested