Cast 30-06 PC (Powder coated) Load Testing

[Music] what's up this is Kenya from eagle-eyed shooting I think it's about time that I kind of dust off my old thirty-aught-six and see how this thing performs with some cast loads in some precision long-range shooting so I'm gonna start off by pretty much changing out the scope that's just a little random NC star that I had thrown on there a while back and after shooting it a few times it actually broke the scope itself so I ordered another CV life it's a 6 by 24 that's what I have in my er as well kind of going with the same motto of cheap shooting so I ordered this on and I'm gonna show you guys a little trick of how to actually level out your scope without using like wedges and like special gauges and stuff from like wheeler or whatever these are probably tools you already have at your house so this is kind of little trick that I found and it seems to work pretty good so let me show you what I do to actually level out the scope all right back you so you could use this little trait for almost every single gun out there for an ar-15 platform it makes it really easy especially having that picatiny rail and this is the reasoning for having to take out the bubble level or off your level itself you can either put it on sit on your Picatinny rail and level out your rifle and/or a furnace on a rifle like this both action I'm just going to use the skull mount itself these scope mounts are actually pretty square and I checked that earlier with a micrometer so they're pretty square others are laid the bubble level on top now the goal is to pretty much level out your rifle left to right it doesn't matter or elevation up or down like I said we're adjusting the scope to have correct canting so I don't you can see it here level it needs to go it's a little bit to the right so after leveling your rifle I'll show you what's next so at this point you're ready to kind of mount your scope on top of your rings loosely that get ready to set for eye relief but before that if you're doing this on a professional scope such as a Leopold or Nightforce one of the tools I recommend getting is a honing tool and what that will do that will that will pretty much smooth out the surface and line up your rings so that you're clamping surface is a hundred percent around the scope body itself that there's no uneven pressure that's being applied on the ESCO body but for this instance and this being a cheap scope and cheap rifle I'm just gonna go with it so at this point like I said your mount your scope loosely in there I don't even have the top rings and we're gonna set the IRA leaf on there now that I got your eye relief set you're going to go ahead and go to here adjacent wall and go ahead and Mark out your laser line up you got your laser line marked out you know carefully without bumping the rifle you're going to adjust the reticle and line up your horizontal axis on your reticle so let me give you a close-up on the reticle itself you can see there that the horizontal axis is in line with the laser level on my adjacent wall we're going to want to do is now place your caps on top and start a tight tightening them down in a cross pattern and this is so the reticle doesn't can't left to right so now we got the scope mounted onto the Mossberg 30.6 we're going to go ahead and we'll do some testing with it I bought some factory winchester super X 180 grain Power Point and I've got it for two reasons and one of them is to set the zero on the scope and then two would be to collect the brass for reloading now I had about nine cases of 3006 laying around and they're shot from old armor-piercing rounds that had the military crimp which by the way it really badass rounds those things were capable of going through a half-inch mild steel and man I'm pretty impressed with how fast they're shooting they are actually non-corrosive from what I've read also but other than that I said I loaded up some rounds for the cast thirty-aught-six and I'm using a pistol powder HP 38 now I want to put a link in the description below of an article that I read and he it pretty much was he's a fanatic of 30.6 and gave some pretty good detail of how to reduce load to 30.6 using pistol powders so I'm using HP 38 which is equivalent to winchester 231 and I started out with eight point five grains and I'm gonna work up to eleven point five I got a three rounds per group and we're gonna see how these do but first when I got to the range we're gonna go ahead and shoot these factory rounds set to zero and receiving kind of accuracy this is old rifle I was putting out I I only shot this thing maybe 200 times so within a 200 times like I said I broke the old original scope on there but let's see what these do let's get out to the range hopefully we can get some good cast loads which by the way if you use pistol powder it seems to burn all the way just there's not gonna be any unburned granules and you're also able to get to a subsonic level if you're looking for like a subsonic bunny fart 30.6 for a varmint hunting or whatever but uh yeah let's go up to the range just get set up let's do some testing be right back alright folks so we're back at the range and I'm all set up I'm gonna first thing I'm gonna do is zero out this rifle I'm gonna shoot some of the factory 30.6 winchester 180 grains and after that I'm gonna test out these cash flows I made after we getting you know see if these castles work good I got an upset target I'd be a C target uh that I have set up downrange and I'm gonna see about going back a little further and see how well this thing does at 300 yards possibly 400 so other than that let's zero out this rifle and see how well this thing performs alright so I got the lead sled lock down I'm aiming at that pumpkin there's something left out here so this thing is locked down pretty tight hopefully I don't get scoped alright I don't have a bipod yet so I got one on the way well here's the first shot 180 grain factory round so off this thing is actually right next to it huh let's see bad island right eight four five six seven eight all right one MOA right seems to be about where it needs to be but another one one target cool all right let me aim at the the paper targets up there and see where these things are grouping all right so now that I got the know where the name is and point of impact I can risk damaging my coronagraph now so I got to set up we're gonna go ahead and take three shots on target and see where these land get a fps and zoom all right let's take three shots I'm gonna be the second target to the left okay two six two two first shot to 634 bad grouping to 627 yeah these things are factory rounds are performing pretty bad this guy right so far in standard deviation of 6.03 with the spread of 12 so not bad let's go ahead and start try out these castles all right first up I got the past round of winchester 231 aka HP 38 8 1/2 grains when go ahead and fire three shots of this and see where it lands okay this first shot be the third target to the left first shot [Applause] really really different on power so 1235 and it looks like it landed below the target I could even get on paper here named top of the target [Applause] okay so I am top of the target we just hold that same point of aim that one was 12 1230 there shot [Applause] all right no group what got a standard deviation of 20 and a spread of 38 let's go on to another one let's go with next up was gonna be ten to half grains first shot the fourth target to the left from the left hey 1340 second shot okay 1330 fair shot one thousand three 32 Wow standard deviation of five point two nine with a spread of ten and I got three shots next to each other still pretty low on the numbers on the speed let's continue on let's go with eleven grains now I'm gonna aim second-to-last target from the right 13:32 better than the factory rounds cool third shot of 11 greens Wow all right got a group there okay last up is 11.5 grains 14:31 1424 cool all right the standard deviation at six point zero three with a spread of twelve really interesting results as you can see pistol powder is working it's a burning efficiently yeah I got some low numbers there we've got a better group even though we're only we're shooting about a thousand FPS slower than factory rounds I got a better group compared to the factory so I may go ahead take you guys up there and let's go look at these groups all right so we're at the target and believe these were the first factory rounds that I shod you can see that's a horrible group for factory round almost five inches there and after that these are the first cast loads and I knew they were shooting low there's one down here one here one here about the same as the factory rounds but those 8.5 grains just under 1200 FPS or right around 1200 fps there's a ten and a half grains and you can see that those are pretty acceptable for its kind of a practice round yeah about about two inches right there and then I got 11 grains which gave us the best performance that's almost mo a little over an inch and then 11 and a half open back up so like I said the pistol powder seemed to burn pretty efficient these my you know first initial testing and so far I'm getting okay results I think we're on the right track but um I'm gonna go ahead now that I got some brass I'm gonna go back and reload a little more but first we're gonna go ahead and do some long-range shooting on this IPSC target see if those factory rounds even other before horrible clothes like a get alright guys be right back alright so I'm sitting up at 312 yards some other people show it up here so I'm I have to cut my range time short and see if I can empty shots with the factory rounds there we go [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] all right so you know this rifle is capable of doing some precision shooting and now that I got some brass I'm gonna go ahead and order some cierra match kings and a 168 grain and the 208 grain see what I could do I love you can see that but or blue dot is us up here and when I was down there at the target I pinpointed it and it's showing 311 0.78 yards and I dialed up 3.25 MOA and it seems to be dead on target I have to hold right a little bit I think that's something to do with the this sort of factory handle itself so I'm gonna keep it zeroed out that way it is and I'll meet you guys back at the reloading bench I'll start talking about what's next all right guys I'll see you back at the reloading bench all right so we're back at the reloading bench and it looks like this scope itself is holding up to the recoil of the 30.6 I had a cup a range time short again and he's a random people just don't seem to have any gun safety in mine I might need to start finding a new spot to shoot luckily I got three others in mine but other than that I had a good range day and we found out the initial testing of these cast 153 grain from an OE mold on the 30-odd sticks seem that perform pretty good so far using HP 38 so I put some targets and disa measurements this is 11 grains of HP 38 and you see there that they're shooting at a 1.1 a 4 inch group standard deviation is in a single digits 6 is a point zero three strange thready at 12 an average of 1400 and 24 fps so is a lot lower than what I wanted but I think we're in the right track here's an other target that I pulled and this is 11 10.5 grains at HP 38 that's just under a 2 inch group Center deviations in the single digits again 5.29 extreme spread of 10 and these were firing at 13 34 so I'm kind of dissing pressed with the factory rounds of the Winchester 180 grain power points I would think that these were things was she pretty good and he's about 75 cents around I think a dollar around but uh this is the target that I shot three got three rounds out of and you can see they're four point four five inch group that's pretty bad but they're shooting at 2627 fps and the standard deviation is still in the single digits six point zero three where this range spread up 12 yeah luckily like I said I'm just shooting this mostly to zero my rifle and it gets some fire form brass like I said I got some serum at Kings in the way and in the near future I'm going to be reloading this for some tighter groups and hopefully take this rifle out 2,000 yards I also had do have a bipod showing up on the pretty soon I'm gonna probably not it on where that swivel spud is there's a adapter you get and go from there other than that guys I really appreciate you joining my channel I said I got more more in the future with this rifle doing some cash shooting and some decision long-range shooting I really appreciate you joining we know if there's any suggestions comment below like subscribe and I like to do a shout out to a friend of mine named Willie the bullet man if you guys haven't seen this channel he's got a lot of good information also we've been keeping contact and he's a really good guy man a lot of good information he was a competition shooter back in a day and prime military experience also he's got a lot of good information to share so Willie thanks very much for keeping contact and I think things a lot for the thermocoupler you sent me my lead cast potty is working a lot better other than that guys I catch the next video I appreciate you dropping by see you to the next one thanks [Music] [Applause] you

Channel: Eagle Eye Shooting

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Length: 22min 22sec (1342 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 03 2017