Painless load development (mine)

[huntnful]

This has to be some kind of piss take, and stop biting your fingernails

Just what I do . Other people can do whatever they want lol. And leave my short fingernails out of this!!

 

[id_jon]

5th firing on this brass, never annealed. Sized with SAC bushing dies, primed, powder weighed with a Chargemaster, bullet seated to mag length, dry tumbled after loading to remove sizing lube.

 

[huntnful]

5th firing on this brass, never annealed. Sized with SAC bushing dies, primed, powder weighed with a Chargemaster, bullet seated to mag length, dry tumbled after loading to remove sizing lube. View attachment 699156View attachment 699164

Beauty of a group!!

12 shot group at 108 yards with a 7-300 Norma. 180 ELDM at 3150fps. Also no load development. Just consistent brass prep and forgiving bullet design.

 

[Harvey_NW]

5th firing on this brass, never annealed. Sized with SAC bushing dies, primed, powder weighed with a Chargemaster, bullet seated to mag length, dry tumbled after loading to remove sizing lube. View attachment 699156View attachment 699164

Is that the barrel you haven't cleaned in like 600rds and PVA (IIRC) was begging you on IG?

 

[Juan_ID]

5th firing on this brass, never annealed. Sized with SAC bushing dies, primed, powder weighed with a Chargemaster, bullet seated to mag length, dry tumbled after loading to remove sizing lube. View attachment 699156View attachment 699164

Tumble after loading? Any particular reason for that as opposed to tumbling before loading?

 

[WesternSlope]

@Formidilosus would those extra brass preps steps give me more firings per case? Have you done any tests on that?

 

[wind gypsy]

Tumble after loading? Any particular reason for that as opposed to tumbling before loading?

Makes sense if loading on a progressive and sizing/priming,/charging/seating all happened without taking the brass off the press.

 

[lak2004]

Is everyone checking shoulder bump with a case gauge or comparator or just confirming they chamber in your rifle?

 

[huntnful]

Is everyone checking shoulder bump with a case gauge or comparator or just confirming they chamber in your rifle?

Both. Sometimes .002 on the bump gauge isn’t enough to allow totally free function of that bolt. So lately I’ve been pulling the bolt apart and knocking the ejector out so it’s totally free from tension, and then sizing the brass until it closes without any resistance.

But a .002 bump is going to allow you to close the bolt normally most of the time

 

[SouthPaw]

I like this reloading method a lot.

Spun a new 6.5cm barrel onto my old T3 in January, its third barrel. Loaded up 20 rounds with 41g H4350, seated a 140eldm .020 off. Three shots to get on paper and rough zero. The next 10:



Adjusted up .1, then five more shots to true solver at 765 yards for a hunt. Shot #19 killed an Elk. Less than a box of rounds to be load-developed, zeroed, trued, and put 200+ pounds of meat in the freezer.

Shot another 200 rounds through this rifle in field practice, then spun on a muzzle brake to shoot a match. 10 shot group with the brake, adjust windage .3 right, and then true solver at 986 yards for the match. Same original load, and the barrel has never been cleaned.

 

[huntnful]

I like this reloading method a lot.

Spun a new 6.5cm barrel onto my old T3 in January, its third barrel. Loaded up 20 rounds with 41g H4350, seated a 140eldm .020 off. Three shots to get on paper and rough zero. The next 10:

View attachment 699300

Adjusted up .1, then five more shots to true solver at 765 yards for a hunt. Shot #19 killed an Elk. Less than a box of rounds to be load-developed, zeroed, trued, and put 200+ pounds of meat in the freezer.

Shot another 200 rounds through this rifle in field practice, then spun on a muzzle brake to shoot a match. 10 shot group with the brake, adjust windage .3 right, and then true solver at 986 yards for the match. Same original load, and the barrel has never been cleaned.

View attachment 699301

Beautiful work!

I just did a 9 shot group in the evening to set my zero on my final load. 180 ELDM at 3160fps. Came up .1 and right .1.


Then in the morning went straight to 1220 yards to true the BC.

Came out to .385 G7. Impacts line up really well all the way out as well. Tested at 500, 700 & 900 yards afterwards.

 

[huntnful]

I did do a small charge weight “tune” or test at 730 yards.

83.5gr


84gr.


While both groups were good. And potentially even the same shot over a large sample and repeated several times. I went with 83.5 for the lack of vertical dispersion in this small test.

 

[willfrye027]

I like this reloading method a lot.

Spun a new 6.5cm barrel onto my old T3 in January, its third barrel. Loaded up 20 rounds with 41g H4350, seated a 140eldm .020 off. Three shots to get on paper and rough zero. The next 10:

View attachment 699300

Adjusted up .1, then five more shots to true solver at 765 yards for a hunt. Shot #19 killed an Elk. Less than a box of rounds to be load-developed, zeroed, trued, and put 200+ pounds of meat in the freezer.

Shot another 200 rounds through this rifle in field practice, then spun on a muzzle brake to shoot a match. 10 shot group with the brake, adjust windage .3 right, and then true solver at 986 yards for the match. Same original load, and the barrel has never been cleaned.

View attachment 699301

Tikkas suck

 

[SouthPaw]

Tikkas suck

The worst...

 

[willfrye027]

The worst...

You’ve been screwing on factory barrels or prefits? That’s an impressive amount of lead you’ve been able to send down range

 

[Juan_ID]

I like this reloading method a lot.

Spun a new 6.5cm barrel onto my old T3 in January, its third barrel. Loaded up 20 rounds with 41g H4350, seated a 140eldm .020 off. Three shots to get on paper and rough zero. The next 10:

View attachment 699300

Adjusted up .1, then five more shots to true solver at 765 yards for a hunt. Shot #19 killed an Elk. Less than a box of rounds to be load-developed, zeroed, trued, and put 200+ pounds of meat in the freezer.

Shot another 200 rounds through this rifle in field practice, then spun on a muzzle brake to shoot a match. 10 shot group with the brake, adjust windage .3 right, and then true solver at 986 yards for the match. Same original load, and the barrel has never been cleaned.

View attachment 699301

How many rounds you shooting through the barrel before swapping them out?

 

[id_jon]

Is that the barrel you haven't cleaned in like 600rds and PVA (IIRC) was begging you on IG?

Yeah lol

Tumble after loading? Any particular reason for that as opposed to tumbling before loading?

Don't have to dump media out of the case or poke bits out of the flash hole. I know stuff in the flash hole probably doesn't matter, but knowing its there bugs me lol

 

[huntnful]

Yeah lol

Don't have to dump media out of the case or poke bits out of the flash hole. I know stuff in the flash hole probably doesn't matter, but knowing its there bugs me lol

Haha that's wild. I have never heard of anyone vibrating a batch of fully loaded rounds.

 

[id_jon]

Haha that's wild. I have never heard of anyone vibrating a batch of fully loaded rounds.

I definitely did some googling to see if anyone else had done it before I tried it lol. No problems thus far

 

[huntnful]

I definitely did some googling to see if anyone else had done it before I tried it lol. No problems thus far

Once you prove it to yourself, that’s all that matters! If you eliminate some steps and still get good performance, can’t argue with that man!