Need help tweaking a load for my .25-06

Are you following a published recipe using the primers listed? To my knowledge, you don't need magnum primers with Ramshot powders especially in a 30-06 based case. Hunter isn't temperature sensitive nor hard to light and you aren't having to light off a large volume.

Temps in your part of the country shouldn't be much of an issue anyway and sometimes magnum primers can tend to make an otherwise good load a bit squirrelly. Neck tension (crimp) shouldn't be much of an issue if you are using quality dies.

Most of us will do "ladders" when load developing. Pick your bullet. Pick your powder based on the load recipe and starting with the starting load and ending with the max, load up a half-dozen or more with each charge weight and then go out and shoot groups to find out which is showing promise.

Some guns do their best running at max some do better somewhere under max.

Seating depth could be an issue, but generally if you are seating the bullets to the specified COL in the load manual you should be ok and should only be futzed with for fine tuning once you find an accurate load.

If you still aren't happy then you should think about changing a component such as powder, primers or bullet manufacturer. If you change a componet, change just one and experiment with the charge recipes until you can rule out that particular component as the culprit.

Keep meticulous records on what you're doing.

Remember, reloading is a process......... a continual grand experiment.

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Herman Cain '12

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