Managed to get out for awhile today.  The best 100yd group of the day came from an odd bullet for a Krag.  Federal's 130gr OTM bullet for the 7.62x51.  I snatched up 250 of them a while back when Midway had them on sale.  I tried several loads, but my recently rebarreled 92/96 seemed to like the 40.4 charge of 3031 that I tried.  According to my Hornady handbook, that should yield around 2750fps.  So, the Springields shouldn't have a big advantage in time of flight to 200yds in the Roosevelt match.  I tried bigger loads of slower powders, but as I've noticed before, seems this rifle doesn't like loads much over 40gr for some reason.  I seated the bullets to the bottom crimp groove, and loaded a few uncrimped to compare.  Crimped shot better, but I have to note that they were trimmed to perfection before crimping and it really wasn't much of crimp, just enough to turn in the 10 degree bevel I put inside the case mouth.  I had some cases that were over length and I trimmed them all to max length before loading, so the crimp, applied with a Lee factory crimp die, was very uniform.  Keeps them from telescoping should that big hollowpoint hang up somewhere while feeding.  The old 92/96 does feed them though.  I also had some loads using the Hornady 150gr FMJBT.  None of them shot as as good as the Mk 319 bullet.  That's 5 shots pictured, the space between two holes tore, makes it look like 6.  Same charge of Accurate 2015 shot about the same as the 3031.

My odd ball Krag bullet got a bit Krag friendlier today.  I found I had an extended ram that allowed me to run the bullets up into a Krag seating die, through said die and into a Lyman 329 top punch for the 308329 cast spitzer.  That reduced the meplat by about .030", without otherwise changing the bullet.  Let the ram cam over, easy little swaging job.  The hollowpoint was snagging at 7 o'clock on the chamber edge, but now the rounds feed through my 92/96 like the proverbial greased lighting!

I went to range the day before yesterday only to find I'd forgotten to pack the 130gr loads I wanted to test.  Luckily I also took my .310 bored 92/96 along, and had some loads using the 123gr .310 diameter Hornady V-Max bullet.  So, it wasn't a totally wasted trip.  I'm having a hard time using my right eye, I see up and down doubles of the bull!  But I got that figured out, the top one is the ghost!  Not the greatest group in the world.  I was fiddling with the sight while shooting.  Still not too shabby.  I used 28.5gr of IMR4227.  The rifle has a sharp crack to the report, rather than a boom, with this load!