The beginning of my testload
I don't have much time to shoot and want to develop test loads within the shortest time period. And so, I'm putting a lot of faith in the ladder test. Here is what I have and plan to do. First, I resized, weighed, fireformed, and measured the concentricity of military 30-06 brass. Groups were separated by headstamp too and the necks were turned. I then made these test loads separated by .3gr increments using 150gr. Barnes 150gr. Hornady, 150gr. Speer, 174gr. Hornady, and 180gr. Hornady. I'll shoot them and find the node by MV. Afterwards I'll buy some different primers and adjust the powder to match the mode MV. Then, I'll make lots of 5 reloads by different seating depth and measure the MV for SD and accuracy. After I find the best load I'll shoot at distances to find a ballistic chart for the load. All this will take time but for reloaders it's fun. Sorry, my photo wouldn't upload.