What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Mtaylor]

Necked down 30 rounds of ADG 270 WSM brass for my 6.5 WSM. Initial observation is that the brass is much harder than either Hornady or Norma that I've already worked. I'm going to run a pressure test to see if the ADG brass has the same limits (66 grains) as the Hornady I've already fired. Also going to measure fired case capacity to see if there's a difference between ADG and Hornady.

I would be interested in the difference!!

 

[hoooogan]

Put this in the StaBall thread, but figured I'd share here as well.

Did my own temp stability test. 5 shots each set. Charges were double checked to +/- 0.01gr on a TRX-925 scale.

StaBall 6.5 - 147gr ELD-M - 43.0gr
Zero Degrees - 2681.7 AV, 36.6 ES, 12.4 SD
50 Degrees - 2687.4 AV, 33.4 ES, 13.2 SD
100 Degrees - 2695.7 AV, 26.9 ES, 8.8 SD

H4350 - 140gr Hybrid - 42.0gr
Zero Degrees - 2686.8 AV, 29.1 ES, 9.5 SD
50 Degrees - 2686.0 AV, 23.6 ES, 8.4 SD
100 Degrees - 2707.0 AV, 15.8 ED, 5.4 SD

Results:
StaBall 6.5 = 0.14 fps per degree.
H4350 = 0.20 fps per degree.

 

[WMDM]

Holy ballz, what is your velocity going to be? Gotta be lazers.

Hornady manual shows a top end of 3,400 with H4350 I'm using.. Barrel is 20" so probably won't get there but should be plenty fast!

 

[MacJenkins]

Lots of cleanup and organization. My son designed these racks for our cleaning supplies and printed them. Took about 10 hours each to print.

 

[Matt5266]

Loaded some more 77 TMKs and then went to re-zero since I swapped scopes. This is the last 8 shots. I think that will do. Im pretty anal and was going to move it .1 mil to the left but then it would likely be the same degree off but on the other end. dot is 3/4 an inch. Group was .82

 

[Mike D Texas]

About to start experimenting with the NAS3 cases.

I bought 20 round of loaded ammo so I could pull bullets and hopefully see what type of powder they are using.

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Charge weight with 150 NBT bullets is 50.5 grains of unidentifiable powder. Looks like a flattened ball powder with either a copper removing agent or a temp stabilization agent. Has that tan/green color like Varget or H4895.

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Factory ammo on left, reseated one on right. I pulled the 150 NBT with my RCBS collet die with about the same effort as a brass cased cartridge. The I ran it through my Redding bushing neck die with no issues, set final neck diameter with a mandrel then seated the 168ABLR with no perceivable additional effort above a typical brass cased cartridge.

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Velocity data forthcoming.

Results.

This is where I topped out. The cases hold 2 full grains more powder than Alpha SRP.

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[HuntHarder]

Fps gain over Alpha brass load?

 

[338edge]

How do you like the RCBS Summit press? I really don't need a new press but I have a small bench and store stuff under the bench so having everything on top would be nice.

I really like mine

 

[338edge]

I annealed 7mmstw, 338edge + P and 338 Terminator brass today