“The 22 Creedmoor Project”

[Lawnboi]

Why lube the case rim?

The rim of the neck. As the mandrel goes down on my sac die is kisses some lube, and goes smoother on the way back through when the mandrel is doing the work.

Just keeps some lube on the mandrel.

 

[HighUintas]

The rim of the neck. As the mandrel goes down on my sac die is kisses some lube, and goes smoother on the way back through when the mandrel is doing the work.

Just keeps some lube on the mandrel.

When I toss my cases in a Ziploc with Lee lube, before I started using imperial graphite I used to use a nylon brush to brush all the necks and get some lube in there. It works pretty well. I see no benefit of using graphite over that

 

[Lawnboi]

When I toss my cases in a Ziploc with Lee lube, before I started using imperial graphite I used to use a nylon brush to brush all the necks and get some lube in there. It works pretty well. I see no benefit of using graphite over that

I used to use graphite, it just dosnt work as good as a wet lube like imperial ime. I’m tumbling the case after anyways to get lube off, that way I’m putting imperial on once, size, mandrel, decap in one pull, and into the tumbling bucket it goes.

Carbide and a little lube leaves nice smooth necks

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

I appreciate that! I have them as well. This was just a really quick, run and out shoot type thing on a whim.

I normally just use the correct size circular objects to make it look nice. The one time I wing it and @mxgsfmdpx calls me out on it . Never again now hahaha.

I would have never said anything if you didn’t call me out on my horribly drawn squares on yellow fricken binder paper lol.

 

[huntnful]

Just got done shooting. Testing Retumbo and H1000 in my buddy’s 7-300 NMI as well as positional stuff with the 22CM.

Shot about 15 rounds with Retumbo testing charge weights and bullets in the 7-300. And then switched straight over to the known load with H1000 and the first 4 shot group was 1/4 MOA at 600 yards. So I guess that rules out switching powders causing first round POI shifts haha. Just thought I’d update about that.

We shot some seated and kneeling positional stuff at 600 yards and 300 yards with the 22CM. 600 yards was untimed and 300 yards was timed. It was good fun. Out of 40 rounds (20, a piece) only 1 hit would have been a questionable kill on a deer, so that was nice to see as well.

 

[huntnful]

We each did this 3 times, at 300 yards shooting at our own dots for time. Then we tested a few different seated positions for stability, untimed as well. Toe of the stock is resting directly on my knee. I literally don’t know what I’m doing. Just testing things and learning. Seeing what works with my lack of flexibility and what doesn’t.

This was the 300 yard target afterwards.


Cool see the high trend of the impacts without a rock solid rear rest. As well as most of dispersion of the groups was horizontal, which is where the crosshair would dance from left to right, much more than up and down.