What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Slick8]

I told myself I wasn't going to test the 300 Bergers. Well I did and I'm happily regretting it

I loaded 90.5-92 based on ladder results and tested at 300 today. That's a 1 inch aiming dot for reference.

I'll be validating this next week after returning from a family trip to Savanah GA.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Temperature aside, you could get water in your chamber and have issues in short order as well. If primers are falling out of pockets on Alpha OCD brass you're pretty dang hot and 0.2 isn't going to move the needle much.

Thank you for the feedback, and I'll remember that. The primer I had come loose the other day I'm almost certain was due to a case being misaligned in the shell holder and the primer "crunching" in when I seated it (Redding press "swing arm" priming approach). It looked fine externally, but this is my best guess. If that ever happens again while priming, it will be a no go for that round.

 

[WestTN2288]

Loaded 40 rounds of .22arc with 88gr eld-m, Lapua once fired brass and CCI 450 primers.

10 are 30.1 grs. N550.
10 are 30.4 grs. N550.

10 are 29.5 grs. LeverEvolution.
10 are 29.8 grs. LeverEvolution.

Used a Lee Six Pack Pro and weighed the charges with an AutoTrikler V4.

Interested to see your numbers just shot a little over 28gr of 550 with 88s yesterday and got good results

 

[FLS]

Started working up a load with 120 Partitions and RL 23 for my 25-06. This rifle is a laser with 115 Berger’s and 115 Nosler BTs.
This is a new powder and bullet for me and so far the results have been underwhelming. Lower than expected velocities and poor accuracy.

 

[pbroski]

Interested to see your numbers just shot a little over 28gr of 550 with 88s yesterday and got good results

Rifle is a 22" bolt gun. All are from 10 rounds. Groups are at 100 yards. Bullets are about .023" from touching.

30.1 grs. N550 - Avg-2895, ES-32, SD-9.5. 1.265".



30.4 grs. N550 - Avg-231, ES-24, SD-6.7. 1.204".



29.5 grs. Lever - Avg-2883-ES-17, SD-5.5. 1.070".



29.8 Lever - Avg-2925, ES-33, SD-9.9. 1.521".



Next, I'm going to load 20 with 29.5 grs. Lever, 10 will be .020 from touching and 10 will be .017" to see if this rifle/load combo can be improved with an adjustment in seating depth.

 

[WestTN2288]

Very nice.

I’m shooting an AR with an 18in barrel, so a little slower, but the best speeds I have gotten with the 88 have been using n550 and Superformance. 2700 is the best I can do with that bullet though

 

[mthunter1989]

Over the weekend I necked down 51 (thanks Starline) pieces of 6.5 Grendel brass to 22 ARC. Some of the necks were a little crooked so I trimmed them all to min spec, chamfered and deburred, then threw them in the tumbler for a quick cleaning to get the lube off. Sitting on the bench ready to be primed and loaded tonight/this weekend with 55gr V-Max bullets to fire form to my chamber.

 

[HGL]

Sorted some "new" primers. My buddy, who doesn't reload, gave me an old stash his dad had way back when. They were stored well and would probably go "bang". If nothing else, the old packaging is cool.

I wish a brick was still around $8.00, dang.

 

[Pharmseller]

A few years ago I bought A LOT of once-fired (maybe) .223 Rem R-P (mostly) fully prepped (tumbled, sized, trimmed, c/d) brass from Brassman Brass. Got a good deal.

Really tough to seat the bullet so I measured the inside neck diameter. Good news, very consistent, bad news, 0.215” - 0.216”. That’s tight, even with the boat tail on the 75 ELDM.

Also fixable. So I spent some happy time running the brass over my Lee collet neck sizer before priming. Gets the inside diameter to 0.219” - 0.220”, which enhances accuracy for me. I’ll probably load today.





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[Pharmseller]

Yep, loaded 181 “Kyle,” my 75 gr ELDM load.




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[Pickettpuncher]

Loaded 25cm this afternoon.

 

[Pharmseller]

Work on your breathing and you’ll tighten those groups right up.




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[cmwhitmoyer]

Drizzly, damp week so I couldn't do my yard clean up so I prepped some 270 win and 308 win cases last night, about 100 total. Today, I prepped and loaded 50 for my 7mm RM. Ramshot Magnum, 150 gr Nosler Etips. I am set for deer season. I need some nice weather to get to the range and dial the 270 winchester in for my daughter. She is at Med school and will only have 1 day to hunt while she is home for Thanksgiving break.

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[TSnave]

Ugh. Competition season is over; brass prep season has begun. Began processing a couple of thousand 223 brass so they'll be ready come spring.

 

[casey36]

Going to tidy up and prep some 7mm-08 for a friend before the Steeler game. After the game, going to load him up 5 boxes of ammo.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Prepped and primed 100 rounds of 7-08 brass. These will get 46.5 grains of SB 6.5 and 162 ELDX. My daughter will be practicing out to 300 with these for her Nov cow hunt.

 

[long hunter]

Loading is pretty much caught up did lay out 100 rounds of 300 BO brass prepped to load, but the season is pretty much shot for me carpal tunnel both wrists first operation is Oct 3rd then Oct 18th for the second one could not of happened at a worst time of the year, good thing is this our off year for Wyoming would have really sucked if not. Hopefully will be able to hunt Whitetails late season near home good luck to all this year hunting.

 

[stevie]

Sized and trimmed few hundred 223

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Sometimes you should quit while you’re ahead. I’ve been dreading pulling 40 rounds due to incorrect head space on the brass. I had a little extra time and decided to pull them today. Afterwards, I still had a little time, so I decided to start re-sizing them….

To make a long story short(er), since I never tumbled or wiped them off after sizing/loading them a few months ago, I figured they’d have enough one-shot left on them to size. They even felt a little “slimy”.

The first ten went through the press no problem, and then, you guessed it, one stuck real good. I pulled up on the handle hard, and the rim ripped off the case.

I was supremely lucky, because I had pulled the de-priming stem out before I started sizing, since I just needed to push the shoulders back not de-prime. This enabled me to stick a “punch” through the die body to hammer the case out. After a few failed attempts, and one smashed thumb nail, I grabbed a couple old drill bits and was able to knock out the case. I’m sure this wasn’t the best idea, but it got the job done without nicking or damaging the inside of the die.

Afterwards I cleaned and lubed the inside of the die and re-lubed the remaining cases. The rest of the sizing was uneventful, and I learned another valuable lesson for the reloading bench. Good grief…

 

[Harvey_NW]

Sometimes you should quit while you’re ahead.

Been there buddy! I forgot what my exact predicament was but I was testing something and tried to cheat the system leaving live primers in while I ran them through the die, and stuck one. I wasn't smart enough to pull the stem like you either, so it got western lol. LR magnum primers are violent!