What did you do in the reloading room today?

Cleaned a couple of rifle barrels, throated my 22-250 AI barrel to run 88ELDMs seated properly and stared loading for that.

Working on some 260AI loads tomorrow.


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New barrel came in for my 300WM
- installed and checked the headspace
- took measurements for (1) an improved load to replace the factory 200gr ELD-X and (2) Berger 215gr Hybrids
- knocked up a few dummy rounds to reference for ladder load testing the range tomorrow before I go into full production mode next weekend

R to L: factory Hornady load, new ELD-X load @.025 off, Berger 215 @.020 off
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I love shooting, and like to shoot alot. And I find the best way for me is sporting clays. It's a blast, I reloaded two cases of 20 gauge this morning. And will most likely repeat the process tomorrow morning. It's gotten to where, I hardly shoot my rifles, handguns much any more.
 
I love shooting, and like to shoot alot. And I find the best way for me is sporting clays. It's a blast, I reloaded two cases of 20 gauge this morning. And will most likely repeat the process tomorrow morning. It's gotten to where, I hardly shoot my rifles, handguns much any more.
I’m a rifle shooter through and through but I sure like a good outing for clays. Never got into the shotgun reloading since I do it so infrequently.
 
In the past few days I’ve annealed, sized and loaded 50 rounds of 6 ARC, 50 rounds of 308 and 100 rounds of 6.5 Creedmoor. I finally got an AMP which takes care of consistent neck tension, shoulder bump and case life.

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That’s sweet. I have an annealeez that works ok but need a quality trimmer badly.
 
Tonight I necked down some .308 brass with my new Hornady 7-08 dies. Swapped out for the seating die and loaded up 3 rounds for pressure testing. COL WAS 2.810.

With 120 NBT and Varget, hit pressure (slight ejector mark) at 44 grains and significant ejector stamp at 44.5 and halted testing. 44 is .3 over Hornady max and 1 grain under Hodgdon max load data. Gonna test for pressure at 43.5 and hopefully load up 10 and see how they shoot.
 

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