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Topic: ...aaannd the adventure begins...
Posted By: Goosic
Subject: ...aaannd the adventure begins...
Date Posted: March 26 2023 at 10:44am
I happened to find a batch of 168grn .312" FMJBT's recently. I have been researching a safe starting/minimum charge weight using VihtaVuori N540 up to a maximum charge and have come to the decision that a minimum of 40.1 to a maximum of 42.5 will keep me in that safe "Golden Zone." The calculated FPS for the minimum should be 2390 and the maximum should be 2585.
Setting the OAL to 3.085" will keep the rounds .084" from the rifling while maintaining safe tolerances for the chamber pressures and assisting in better than normal accuracy. If this round works as anticipated, I believe I may have found the accuracy/target round the venerable Lee-Enfield has needed for a long while...



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Posted By: Dragunov
Date Posted: March 26 2023 at 11:19am
Pray tell, what brand and where did you find these bullets?


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: March 26 2023 at 7:17pm
Originally posted by Dragunov Dragunov wrote:

Pray tell, what brand and where did you find these bullets?
They were in a box marked 7.62 ×54R. There's only 100 of them but, they all weigh between 168.2 through to 169.4.
The box was part of a group of items that are sold second-hand at my local gunshop...



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