Reeder Custom Guns - It was really easy to hit 2400 fps

WB
It was really easy to hit 2400 fps
Sunday, January 12, 2020, 08:14

with about any bullet. My choice for deer type critters is the Nosler 120 BT. I shot a couple nice critters at the Y-O with it, no drama. Basically a pistol version of the 7x57. I liked H322 but several powders work well, hard to mess it up. I have a 12"(rifled)+2" braked barrel for the Contender.

I was using once fired .30-30 brass run FL and fireformed with a 10% reduced load. They all went over 2200 fps and shot into the same hole, might as well hunt with them forming brass. My loads showed a brilliant muzzle flash and it was fun shooting at public ranges. It freaked everyone out, looks like flash photography and a thunderous boom with the brake. Recoil is seriously like a .223, none at all. It's amazing.

This was from when I first got it, maybe 2005-6?

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7 GNR, does anyone have chronographed - Tom S, 2020-01-12, 07:24
- Tom, as Gus said below, don'y get all worked up over - Gary Reeder, 2020-01-13, 14:54
- I have the same setup as you. - Gus S., 2020-01-13, 07:19
- This is a 14" barrel, deduct about 70 fps for the 2" shorter - Sean Harper, 2020-01-13, 05:36
  - ?? looks like the info did not post like I had it (nm) - Sean Harper, 2020-01-13, 05:38
- It was really easy to hit 2400 fps - WB, 2020-01-12, 08:14
  - Nice FLASH photography (nm) - Sunny, 2020-01-12, 10:50
  - Very helpful thanks (nm) - Tom S, 2020-01-12, 08:42
  - I forgot, my hunting partner at the Y-O had a JDJ - WB, 2020-01-12, 08:18