What did you do in the reloading room today?

[david2duck]

Loaded up a quick pressure test for a new to me Tikka 6.5PRC.

ADG Brass
N565
210m
Berger 156’s
CBTO: 2.335
Going up in .5 increments from 56-59.

My last PRC settle in right at 58gr with the same components but it was a Seekins.

 

[ridgeline]

Just curious but why the moly process. It’s not something I see a lot of people do these days?

Also curious on how those 80s shoot for you out of that 6x45, keep us updated. I really want to build one but have too many irons in the fire these days.

Moly's benefits to me have been once the bore is initially sterilized I never touch a cleaning rod again and there's no CBS issues. But I also use good brass a good powder that grants a high load density and .003-.004" neck tension. Consistency being king and in combination I typically see low ES/SD values and nice groups. It's always worked so I always do it.
I will update progress on the 80 VT's on paper and critters going forward.

 

[Harvey_NW]

Loaded up a quick pressure test for a new to me Tikka 6.5PRC.

ADG Brass
N565
210m
Berger 156’s
CBTO: 2.335
Going up in .5 increments from 56-59.

My last PRC settle in right at 58gr with the same components but it was a Seekins.

Tikka actions can have pressure signs show up earlier than others, 59 with a 156 sounds pretty spicy. I ran up to 59 with a 143 on new brass and ran it at 58, with formed brass I had to drop the charge because 58 was fairly stiff bolt lift. Interested to see where you land.

 

[waspocrew]

Tikka actions can have pressure signs show up earlier than others, 59 with a 156 sounds pretty spicy. I ran up to 59 with a 143 on new brass and ran it at 58, with formed brass I had to drop the charge because 58 was fairly stiff bolt lift. Interested to see where you land.

Was thinking the same thing... keep seeing people posting similar loads, but in my Seekins Element and Peterson brass, N565 and 143 Bondstrikes were hitting pressure at 59.5 gr.

 

[david2duck]

Tikka actions can have pressure signs show up earlier than others, 59 with a 156 sounds pretty spicy. I ran up to 59 with a 143 on new brass and ran it at 58, with formed brass I had to drop the charge because 58 was fairly stiff bolt lift. Interested to see where you land.

I might end up pulling the bullets but I get pretty pissed when I drive all the way to the range and don’t find pressure. VV load data can be on the low side. I’ve had to go a decent amount over their published numbers on a few guns.

 

[deerbo]

I fixed my lee power trim that wasnt trimming. processed 180ish 6creed and loaded 40 for a second round of testing.

hornady case
CCl large magnum
A4350 36.4-40.5
108 ELDM factory seconds(i think)
COL 2.793

My gun shot 1/2moa within that charge range, trying to get it dialed in. still brand new to this and having loads of fun!

 

[Sylvaneous69]

FINALLY got some H-4895. It cost $73, which is just...there isn't a 'fainting' emoji, is there? My older bottle of Reloader-15 says $35. Holy cow!
But it was this or work up another load with another powder. And if I didn't like those results, get another? I'll just pay the $$$. The V.V.-135 and -140 looked tempting though
BTW: it's for a 150 sierra game king. The load right on the can. It shoots great out of my X-bolt and I get the upper 2800's neighborhood that it says. I wasn't out, but I didn't have enough for another full box.

 

[david2duck]

Here’s the brass from 59gr of N565. Obviously I’m not going to run here but it’s not as bad as the internet would make you believe. It had the slightest touch of a heavier bolt lift.


I shot 5 rounds at 58 and only got an ejector mark on the last round. Here’s the pic of the 5 rounds.

 

[Luked]

Loaded up a bunch of 6 Arc for my Gas gun to do some load dev.
Loaded with 103ELD-x and Varget

 

[Sandhills]

Packed a bunch of stuff down to the basement from the garage after grandpa brought me some more reloading equipment

 

[Ophidian]

loaded up some 6arc with 95gr LRX
All trimmed to 1.475”, 2.290 OAL (.050 off the lands)
28.5/28.2/27.9/27.6gr Varget

Used the max book data from Barnes. I’ll start at the lowest load and work up. From what I have seen on robs reloading bench, he started getting some extractor marks near 28gr so I wanted to start a little lower and work my way up.

I also have leverevolution but I want to see how varget works first. Especially since Barnes doesn’t list lever for their bullets.

Will be testing them out of my howa 22” once I get some time.

 

[jkdrgn]

Loaded 150 rounds of 243, 200 rounds of 5.56, and prepped some 45 ACP brass, need to work up a load for it with some 225 grain lead bullets.

 

[Sandhills]

Actually loaded a round last night. Got my RCBS powder measure set to drop 8 grains of Unique and loaded a 44-40 with a 200 grain cast boolit

 

[Nightfarce Ops]

Lot`s of brass laundry done today. Tomorrow, lots of annealing.

 

[Mike D Texas]

Lots over the last few days. We shot at NRA Whittington last weekend and with 3 shooters and several guns, there’s lots to do.

• Decapped, resized, wet tumbled, trimmed, annealed several hundred rounds of various cartridges ranging from 6.5x47 Lapua up to 338 Norma Improved.
• Finished setting up my 338 caliber cutting head for the Henderson trimmer
• Did a massive cleanup and reorganization of the loading room, will have several items in the classifieds over the next few days.

On another note, I made 3 hits on a 36” round plate at 1 mile with a factory Tikka Roughtech in 300WSM. Berger 208LRHT bullets, N555 powder, ADG brass, CCI250 primers, 4-14x42 baby ATACR scope with Mil-R reticle, 2855fps average over 20 rounds. The wind was averaging 9mph with up to 22mph gusts.

Making me question the need for several thousand $$ custom rifles, LOL.

 

[TxhunterPRC]

Loaded up 30 rounds of 135 g A-tips for my 6.5 CM. Something to test out and shoot other than my normal 147 ELDM and 156 EOL loads. Hoping to do some testing on some pigs or aoudad soon with all three loads.

 

[Nightfarce Ops]

Loaded up 30 rounds of 135 g A-tips for my 6.5 CM. Something to test out and shoot other than my normal 147 ELDM and 156 EOL loads. Hoping to do some testing on some pigs or aoudad soon with all three loads.

Hey @TxhunterPRC
shoot me a PM when you test these 135g A-tips. I want to try some in my CM. I`d be interested in what recipe ingredient you try on yours.

Thanks brother

 

[TxhunterPRC]

Hey @TxhunterPRC
shoot me a PM when you test these 135g A-tips. I want to try some in my CM. I`d be interested in what recipe ingredient you try on yours.

Thanks brother

Will do. Hoping to get to the range today.

 

[Ophidian]

Only tangentially related to reloading but I just ordered a Garmin chronograph. I dont want to deal with my old caldwell anymore.

 

[Nightfarce Ops]

Only tangentially related to reloading but I just ordered a Garmin chronograph. I dont want to deal with my old caldwell anymore.

I keep thinking that i wanna try the new Athlon chronograph, its almost 1/2 the money of the Garmin.