u/EllinoreV13

So im fairly comfortable reloading, enough to make educated decisions for developing data for slightly oddball cartridges but I've never messed with monolithic before and I feel a bit curious as to these. I got about 250 barnes monos for free, most are 200lrx, and some 180 tsxbt, I know these were more intended for 300mag but I figured its worth a test, im using data directly from barnes with h4895, but my question is does all barnes data seem to be near compressed? I am using lake city brass so I know to be aware of less capacity but it seems very close with very little airspace, both projectiles are 2.82", in the 200s im using charges between 29-31.5(again to make up for the fact im using mil brass) and for the 180s im using 35.4-36gr

So I've been experimenting lots with my .308 winchester, its a 1-10 twist ruger m77 acrion 16.5" barrel. Im looking to pick up a new mold, ive seen a new NOE 311-214 for sale, however I noticed it only has one full sized .311 driving band and I do not know if that would inherently cause suffrage to accuracy, I know a saeco 315 is tapered however it still has much more full bore contact and was curious as to others experience with very short full bore contact

So far my test bullets, NOE 310-172FN PBPC: shoots about 2.5 moa, noticeably more leading than others but still very soft. ACCURATE 31-180WG: about 2moa, very nice long COAL. LYMAN 311332: 1.5moa, however an honestly terrible mold and physically will not PC. But any mold recommendations are welcome