Thinking of reloading,
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Some nice groups amongst that Portland Down-like cautionary approach to incremental advancement.
Just be careful you don’t find you need a new barrel before deciding on a load!
K
Ps: Consider colour-coding your incremental powder advancements. At least you won’t be able to apply a felt-tip pen to a primer anvil:
Just be careful you don’t find you need a new barrel before deciding on a load!
K
Ps: Consider colour-coding your incremental powder advancements. At least you won’t be able to apply a felt-tip pen to a primer anvil:
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i was thinking the same today, ill probably of blown my barrel out buy the time im done,
technically im done testing now, just need to pick a combo,
RL10 with the V max with 19.5gr at .5" and 5"seems the best, and with the N-133 id say the V max again with 21.4gr at .4" and .5",
seems like sierra can go do one,
Surely if you are inspecting your cases at each stage of the loading process you would have noticed an inverted primer?
I'm pretty sure many people who reload will have had a primer seated upside down at some point, I suspect very very few have actually got as far as adding powder, bullet, taken it to the range, and actually fired it before noticing it though.
My routine is; cases stood in the box neck up before priming, neck down after priming, neck up after charging, that way you can always see if a case is primed.
Part of your routine should be to visually check the cases after priming and run a finger nail over the seated primer to check that it is below the head of the case and isn't sitting flush or proud.
this is what i have been doing, only on this occasion iv messed up twice, not noticed the upside-down primer, and not inspected it after, i will adopt your method and be more cautionary,
they look to nice to shoot
It will speed up sour loading no end and can be set up to trickle one grain of extruded powder at a time if that level of accuracy is your thing.i guess it sound like a decent thing then, i feel like i going to admit to doing something wrong here, but if i dont know if its wrong or not then i will only keep doing it,
if i trickle a bit to much in then i dab my finger on my tongue then into the powder, wipe it on my trousers and see where were at, and if needs be trickle a bit more,
there, iv said it.
Much quicker than manually trickling when combined with a thrower, throw about .3 gr light trickle and seat the bullet on previously charged case whilst it does so.
Evening good people of SD, me again with another question
With regards to using different makes of brass, is there a big noticeable difference between makes when using a specific powder and charge weight thats worked well in one make, iv only used Hornady and ADI so far and the ADI seems to be better, but that maybe down to my shooting, the weather, and probably other things, and when i say its better were only talking 5-10mm in a 5 shot group, is it also worth working up different loads in different cases as well as powder and bullets, or am i over thinking it,
Thanks,
Lee
With regards to using different makes of brass, is there a big noticeable difference between makes when using a specific powder and charge weight thats worked well in one make, iv only used Hornady and ADI so far and the ADI seems to be better, but that maybe down to my shooting, the weather, and probably other things, and when i say its better were only talking 5-10mm in a 5 shot group, is it also worth working up different loads in different cases as well as powder and bullets, or am i over thinking it,
Thanks,
Lee
No leave it be.,..Evening good people of SD, me again with another question
With regards to using different makes of brass, is there a big noticeable difference between makes when using a specific powder and charge weight thats worked well in one make, iv only used Hornady and ADI so far and the ADI seems to be better, but that maybe down to my shooting, the weather, and probably other things, and when i say its better were only talking 5-10mm in a 5 shot group, is it also worth working up different loads in different cases as well as powder and bullets, or am i over thinking it,
Thanks,
Lee
as in dont faf about, or, dont use different makes of brass
Enjoy your shooting the rest will come...as in dont faf about, or, dont use different makes of brass
thinking about it too, when i used the ADI brass is when id used my OAL gauge and bullet comparator and measured to the ogive, so this may of made the results better and could be nothing to do with the brass,Evening good people of SD, me again with another question
With regards to using different makes of brass, is there a big noticeable difference between makes when using a specific powder and charge weight thats worked well in one make, iv only used Hornady and ADI so far and the ADI seems to be better, but that maybe down to my shooting, the weather, and probably other things, and when i say its better were only talking 5-10mm in a 5 shot group, is it also worth working up different loads in different cases as well as powder and bullets, or am i over thinking it,
Thanks,
Lee
richard griffith
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Basic rule of reloading, if you change any one component back off and work up your load again.Evening good people of SD, me again with another question
With regards to using different makes of brass, is there a big noticeable difference between makes when using a specific powder and charge weight thats worked well in one make, iv only used Hornady and ADI so far and the ADI seems to be better, but that maybe down to my shooting, the weather, and probably other things, and when i say its better were only talking 5-10mm in a 5 shot group, is it also worth working up different loads in different cases as well as powder and bullets, or am i over thinking it,
Thanks,
Lee
Have you read a reloading manual or are you just going by trial and internet led error?
yes iv read manuals, but manuals and people on here all have a degree of difference of whats right, wrong, whats best and whats not, so the more opinions i can get, same with power charge weights, show me 2 the same, book says one thing, bullet and powder manufactures say another, my moto is never believe one man. i gather knowledge and work whats best out for myself, its done me well enough thus far, touch wood
I'd pack in now if I was you. You've gone 450 + posts and you come across as you've not really on song with what is basically common sense. Just buy store bought ammo. It still goes bang. Touch wood, and I'll still buy your anorak .yes iv read manuals, but manuals and people on here all have a degree of difference of whats right, wrong, whats best and whats not, so the more opinions i can get, same with power charge weights, show me 2 the same, book says one thing, bullet and powder manufactures say another, my moto is never believe one man. i gather knowledge and work whats best out for myself, its done me well enough thus far, touch wood
not on song with what, im still learning and asking questions for real world experiences rather than just take knowledge from a book or 2, iv read what the manuals say, iv also read what others have to say, not always the same, why should i strictly take advise from to authors of 2 manuals over 50 or 60 members on here who also obviously know what there doing, lets take the ABC of reloading manual, written by Philip Massaro, whos he, a hunter from America, why should i listen to his advise over (lets say) yours??
so i thankyou for the advice of packing in reloading, but graciously decline it,
As a new reloader you should be working to the manual, you don’t have the knowledge or experience to decipher the good advice from the bad.yes iv read manuals, but manuals and people on here all have a degree of difference of whats right, wrong, whats best and whats not, so the more opinions i can get, same with power charge weights, show me 2 the same, book says one thing, bullet and powder manufactures say another, my moto is never believe one man. i gather knowledge and work whats best out for myself, its done me well enough thus far, touch wood
As for data, yes this varies but that in part is down to no data using the exact same combination of components. For example Winchester brass will have more capacity than say nosler, also every chamber is different so pressures will vary and some sources will run data closer to the maximum pressure allowed for the cartridge.
Because 50 or 60 members on here may not have it quite right, bad habits may have slipped in or they may have the knowledge and experience to interpret the data and the outcomes that, being a new reloader, you simply do not possess.
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