What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Ckat]

For reloading a wildcat cartridge, like 6x45, what is the normal method people use to make it easy to distinguish between that and the parent cartridge? Should I be marking the heads with a distinctive Sharpie? Or is there a better method?

As waspocrew said, I use LC brass for my 6x45 and commercial brass for my .223s. It is also much easier to see the visible differences between the two than you might think.

 

[Castle Rock]

As waspocrew said, I use LC brass for my 6x45 and commercial brass for my .223s. It is also much easier to see the visible differences between the two than you might think.

If you can’t see the visual difference between 22 and 6mm you ain’t seeing a headstamp

 

[wind gypsy]

Sized a bunch of 6.5x47 and tried like hell to figure out which is from which lot/rifle since I dont mark things worth a shite.

 

[Slick8]

No bench pics today but I loaded 50 rounds of 300 Norma Mag Imp with 245 EOL's to fire form over the weekend.

I fire formed the first batch of 50 in two groups of 25 finding a good spot for accuracy at 2700.

I should have this last 50 round batch shot up by next week and will start load development asap.

Here's a comparison left to right; 300 NM Imp, 300 NM loaded .010 into the lands and a 6.5 manbun for scope.

Fireforming specs.
Lapua brass
245 Berger
F215
81 grains of H1k at 2700 FPS.

It's turned in a few 1 inch groups at 300, going out to 600 this week (weather permitting).