What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Pony Soldier]

I was in Missoula scheels a week ago because someone told me they had some. The store told me hadn't had any for some time (CCI 250) but they certainly had everything but those.

I can predict when they are coming in. The day after I complete a new load with what I have. I still have 4 boxes of hornady interlocs 175 grain rn 175 gr. I do my testing on spire points and the fine testing on round nose. I hate to change those things that work.

 

[Luked]

Loaded another 100 45 ACP yesterday.
Need to get to the range for some more Load Dev on a few rifles. Weather here has been bad, so haven't been for some time.
Have 6.5CM,243, 300WSM & 7MM-08 Load Dev to go through.
Then need dies for my 6mm Arc and 223 to start those.

 

[Sinistram]

An atypically busy week at the reloading bench for me:

1. Loaded 7mm Weatherby with 162 Hornady SST and 7828SSC
2. Loaded 7mm Weatherby with 150 Winchester soft points and IMR-4831
3. Loaded 300 Savage with H335 and Remington 150 core Lokt for testing
4. Processed and primed 146 223 brass for loading with 55gr Hornady SP
5. Mixed and created a new lot number of a few lbs of H4895 to keep things consistent
6. Ditto with a few lbs of H335
7. Loaded a few 357 Magnum test combos. This was due to some pressure issues I've lately had in a few of my 357 revolvers

 

[sierracharlie338]

I reached a point of the ultimate nightmare.

I’ll see you and raise you having to pack up my entire reloading room because we are putting house on the market.

 

[david2duck]

Loaded 100 rounds of 6.5cm for my dad w/H4350 and 140 ELDM’s

Loaded 85 rounds of 7RM for my buddy w/H1000 and 180 hybrids

 

[Pony Soldier]

Sierracharlie338:
First of my life, I did that 3 or 4 times. However, each time my reloading room got better and somewhat bigger. My current one even has a heater. Given 60 mph winds, drifting snow, and 20 degrees - the heater makes reloading something to look forward to.

 

[Dschwan]

cleaned and and sized 500 cases of 10mm. Next week I'll load them. I really need a progressive press but I just can't seem to part with the money for one so I just work through it.

 

[letrbuck]

Trimmed a couple hundred 16ga hulls to 2.5 inches and loaded up a couple boxes of 1oz roll crimp loads

 

[steelheadmike]

Loaded 50 rds of 7-08 to go shoot steel and started a load work up using some CCI250 primers rather than 200.

I want see how the ES/SD is affected with the superformance powder.


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[WestTN2288]

Loaded 50 rds of 7-08 to go shoot steel and started a load work up using some CCI250 primers rather than 200.

I want see how the ES/SD is affected with the superformance powder.


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Please report back. Curious about that powder with both primers

 

[Pony Soldier]

I'm impressed. I haven't see CCI 250s in 4 years.

 

[steelheadmike]

Please report back. Curious about that powder with both primers

Powder has been showing good results. In all honesty, I just started reloading and it is the only powder I have used.

I’m trying the 250s to see if the magnum can get the ES/SD down. I’m finding that with a less than full case, the ES/SD goes up. But, with a fuller case using a book max charge, I get pressure signs

Accuracy has been pretty good using 150 eld-x and 162 eld-m.

With the 162s, I’ve been able to get over 2650 fps from a 19” barrel.

This is 5 shot group at book max. Average MV of 2660
One shot had a very slight ejector swipe.

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[Pharmseller]

The Brown Man brought me 20 boxes of 75 gr ELDM.

I have some work to do.




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[Sinistram]

cleaned and and sized 500 cases of 10mm. Next week I'll load them. I really need a progressive press but I just can't seem to part with the money for one so I just work through it.

Ugh. That sounds like a slog for sure. I love shooting them, but bulk prepping handgun brass might be the most monotonous task in all of reloading.

 

[Harvey_NW]

I’m trying the 250s to see if the magnum can get the ES/SD down. I’m finding that with a less than full case, the ES/SD goes up. But, with a fuller case using a book max charge, I get pressure signs

The magnum primer in that case could be contributing to the pressure signs, that's a fairly small amount of powder to be igniting with a magnum. I usually get more consistent results with regular large rifles, I'd bet you could add a grain or 2 of powder back in if you had the room and switched to a regular large rifle. The rifle seems to like that combo though, looks like it shoots pretty dang good.

 

[steelheadmike]

The magnum primer in that case could be contributing to the pressure signs, that's a fairly small amount of powder to be igniting with a magnum. I usually get more consistent results with regular large rifles, I'd bet you could add a grain or 2 of powder back in if you had the room and switched to a regular large rifle. The rifle seems to like that combo though, looks like it shoots pretty dang good.

The pressure was with a LRP at book max. I've played with the seating depths and get more pressure/velocity and higher ES/SD with the bullet seated out long. I backed off the load to try the MLRP but seated at a depth that has been yielding good consistency.

Being that it is a ball powder, I wanted to see how the magnum primers do.

It's all splitting hairs at this point, but that's half the fun for me.

 

[BCsteve]

Loaded some 6.5 PRC cartridges for my newly re-barreled Tikka. Loaded some 143gr ELDX, 145gr TGK, 127gr LRX and some 156gr EOL. We'll see what she seems to like and go from there.

 

[solarshooter]

I misspoke in my post above. I follow his theory, I just didn't see him go in depth or explain any test or evidence of this theory being correct.

This book https://archive.org/details/RifleAccuracyFactsFullV1.0FirstFullScan/page/n53/mode/2up contains theoretical, simulation, and experimental results that indicate that barrel modes do indeed exist and impact precision.

Like I said, I think I need to read Jeff's book to really get into the meat of his theory and evidence. I just haven't yet.

Well I bought Siewert's book (caveat, I'm only halfway through), and unfortunately it is much the same as his podcast appearances. A series of statements and anecdotes with little to no theory, data, or discussion of test methods and results. It reads more like a memoir than anything scientific. Yes there are interesting findings and analysis discussed, but it is more a list of results and career accomplishments than it is a scientific explanation of ammunition.

That being said, his experience seems very high-level, so I'm not saying that his presented conclusions and facts are wrong. Just that the book is not very enlightening on how he arrived at these conclusions or tested various hypotheses. Contrast that to Litz's books, where he shows the entire scientific process from problem statement to hypothesis to test to conclusions, as well as often including lots of raw data.

PS: Siewert name-drops the Vaughn book I linked above in his foreword - and it's the only book he does so with.

 

[wyosam]

Ugh. That sounds like a slog for sure. I love shooting them, but bulk prepping handgun brass might be the most monotonous task in all of reloading.

I run through 10mm pretty quick on a Lee turret press, which is quite a bit cheaper than a progressive. Much faster than a standard single stage though.


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[Live_weighT34]

410gr Hornady SubX bullets over some IMR 4198 & IMR 3031 for the old Winchester 45-70.

Loading these as super sonics starting at about 1300 fps and worked my way up to about 1550fps which is where I want to top out at. Just following Hornadys published load data from the website. Gonna go shoot them this evening.