.25-06 and Hornady 75gr. VMAX

[Cal Sibley]

I'm starting load development this weekend on a new Remington 700BDL in .25-06. I've made up quite a few loads with 100, 117, and 120gr. bullets, but am woefully short of loads for lighter bullets. I went out yesterday and got a box of Hornady 75gr. VMAXs. Any ideas of what to use for good accuracy loads? Thanks and best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

[Catfish]

Cal,
I`ve had good accuracy from the Serria 75 grners, and the Hornady should be about the same. I have a .257 AI with a 1 in 12 twist. If you have a 1 in 10 you might be alittle fast for them. As for loads I would recomand you check the powder manufactures web pages. They all have data for their powders. My Serria manual list IMR-4064 and 760 as the fastest in the .25-06 at 3700 fps. with a 75 grn. bullet.With 4064 the starting load is 43.7 gn. and the max. is 49.0. With 760 the starting load is 50.0 gn. and the max. is 56 gn.

[Cossack]

The first caliber that I loaded. I used Sierra 70's and IMR 4895 as I recall. I rememberl consistantly hitting small water filled baloons at 385 stepped off yards. Didn't have a chron then so don't know what they did; or much sense --- because I sold one of the most accurate rifles I ever owned (Rem 700 ADL) for something more shiny.

[SuperMagnum]

My friend wanted to try the 75 gr V-max for PDs so I loaded up some for him and we found a accurate load with RL-15 and he had no problem hitting PDs out to 500 yards out of his Rem 700 ADL 25-06. I don't remember how many grains it was loaded with but was between 47.8 to 49.4 gr RL-15 with Winchester WLR primers and the maximum according to the manual is 50.9 gr.

[ZACE]

My fav. PD load is a 75 vmax and 50.0 gr. Varget.