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I posted it in reloading forum somewhere, it should be searchable.
I tested some triple reloaded sets agains once reloaded and sd was same almost, so I kinda in a denial camp for now. That ugly gizmo is nice, I remember you posting about it. Good to know you still like it.
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looks well made. I run a Lee perfect powder measure for stick powders which works really well. But it feels flimsy as hell then again it was $25I'm using an RCBS comp powder drop. I find it is pretty consistent even with stick powders.
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I don't shoot long distance often enough to need to speed up my process.
Love hearing of spouses shooting together. Don't keep us waiting too long. And, is that a factory engraving on that Henry? Looks nice.Something interesting we learned yesterday with my wife's AR. She had excellent accuracy with 55gr with brass casings. 55gr with steel casings is a totally different story. I'm guessing the steel is not expanding enough?????
Mine with the steel casings; forget about it. Lots of fun to just let a bunch of rounds fly. Aiming at a small red dot not so much.
I need to shoot some of the 69gr to determine if it is better or worse than the 75 I was using. Then I will try some of my own loads. Regardless, just good fun.
Wait until Christmas. Got my wife a vortex viper 6-24 scope. She'll be wanting to shoot to 600 meters once we get that in her rifle
I believe you are referring to the 22lr. Yes, that is the Silver Eagle by Henry. I wanted one for the longest time. I think I waited two years to find one in stock. It's a stunning gun.
I just tried annealing for the first time, just used a socket in a drill to hold and spin the brass in front of the flame, dropped them into a coffee can full of water.
I actually just decided to try it based on what I was reading in this thread. I had a batch I'd already deprimed and resized, trimmed, chamfered, and was getting ready to throw them back in the tumbler to clean the resizing lube off. But when I was resizing, the effort to pull them back down past the ball was noticeably inconsistent. So I annealed them, then ran them through the tumbler, and just out of curiosity ran them each back up into the resizing die just far enough to run the necks over the ball again. They felt much more consistent, but... they'd also already been resized.
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Yes, tighter groups off the bench for 6 ARC, 308, and 30-06. Higher scores in vintage sniper competition with the 30-06 as well as in CMP games with my M14 (308). I'm sure there's a combination of factors but annealing seems to help. Some of my sets of brass had several reloads and were getting a bit hard.
Actually yes! My groups always had a vertical spread that was almost always worse than the horizontal spread. In my irons only days I attributed it to losing focus on the front sight, changes in light, eyes getting tired, etc. Started to see this with optics as well, so aging eyes were not the entire story. Annealing seems to have helped a little.
Had a chance to run them today. I had the chronograph a little too close to the muzzle so only caught two each of the IMR3031 and H335, but it seems like A2230 maybe has less muzzle flash and I caught all five of those. So take the SD numbers with a grain of salt. Tikka T3 1/8 20" barrel.
Ooof this just showed up at my doorstep today. Glad to know everyone at the local USPS knows I have guns…I just shipped out a large flat rate USPS box full of once fired 223 brass to be fully processed. About 2400ish cases. The thought of me doing that case prep by hand makes me
Especially now with a 1 year old I would never have the time unless I did it after the gym and before I get up for work. So like between 11pm-7am and over several nights
$127 including shipping both ways. This probably wouldn’t make a lot of sense for guys shooting thousands upon thousands of rounds per year
That was the brass you just sent out for processing? Quick turnaround. Missing any?
