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

 

[wyosam]

Topped off my supply of 6.5 cm and 7-08 ai range ammo, put my 223 back together (temporarily, 223ai barrel coming) after action nitride/rokstock arrival. Realized I’m short a set of sportsmatch highs and ordered another set.


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[Castle Rock]

I must have done something right

 

[Mike D Texas]

Fps gain over Alpha brass load?

~80fps in Peterson brass, but that’s because I was out of case capacity. The NAS3 cases hold 2 grains more of the same powder. Alpha would typically produce 8-10fps more than the Peterson.

I’m pretty certain I could get over 3100 with the NAS cases with a heavily compressed load.

 

[hunterjmj]

Watching some videos on mandrel dies. Think I'll order a die and the mandrel for 223 and give it a go.

 

[Mike D Texas]

Working up some 22ARC bolt rifle loads for my Howa Mini with the new 88 grain TMKs.

Trying H4895, MR-2000 and AA2520.


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[waspocrew]

It's windy as hell today, so not worth doing any range work. I have a huge bin full of fired 223/556 range pick up that's been begging for prepping. Counted out 500 and got them all swaged. Will work on this batch over the next week or so and get them loaded up with 55 gr SP and 62 gr FMJs for my AR. Prairie dogs should be out in full force over the next couple of months.

 

[HuntHarder]

Put my new V4 thru it's paces using H4350 today. Took me about 5 minutes to calibrate it and create a profile for H4350. I might be able to speed it up a touch, but the accuracy is so awesome, I will likely leave well enough alone.

Loaded 50 rds of 6.5 and ran a quick speed/accuracy test on the V4 vs. Chargemaster. Test consisted of throwing and dumping 5 charges of 42 grs of H4350. After charging the rds, I dumped out the charge masters rds and weighed them on the fx-120. It was eye opening.. I knew it was happening, so lately before I got the V4, I was double checking every or every other charge on a beam scale.

Top # is time, bottom #'s are charge weights thrown.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

I would be interested in the difference!!

Ran quick pressure test on the ADG brass. I hit bolt lift with the Hornady brass at 66.5. I loaded 66, 66.5, 66.7, and 67. I have ejector stamps on .7 and 67 but no bolt lift. I’m gonna load 67.5, 67.7, and 68 and see how far I get.

Empty weight of the fired ADG brass is 230.2 grains. Full of H2O, weight is 311.2 grains for 81 grains total. That is 1 full grain more than the Hornady brass.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Ran quick pressure test on the ADG brass. I hit bolt lift with the Hornady brass at 66.5. I loaded 66, 66.5, 66.7, and 67. I have ejector stamps on .7 and 67 but no bolt lift. I’m gonna load 67.5, 67.7, and 68 and see how far I get.

Empty weight of the fired ADG brass is 230.2 grains. Full of H2O, weight is 311.2 grains for 81 grains total. That is 1 full grain more than the Hornady brass.

Got up to 68 with light ejector stamp and no bolt lift. MV was 3179. I’m gonna stop there and load 10 and see how it shoots.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

Got up to 68 with light ejector stamp and no bolt lift. MV was 3179. I’m gonna stop there and load 10 and see how it shoots.

147’s?

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Yessir!