The "What Have You Reloaded Today" thread
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I have a 222 REM Mag and I also prefer the imr4198 in the recipe. Mind you I haven’t tried many others as I inherited it from my father in law, but if it works, why change it.
I will certainly let you know tomorrow.
I haven't paid much attention to it in the past.
Cat
Well, got to the range this afternoon with near perfect conditions.
No clouds, and very little wind
( about .5MOA at 300)
First sighters after coming down from 900 were a 3 and a 4 right on the waterline right.
Adjusted, and shot the next one into the bull, a tad left. Adjust 1/2MOA and shot a left hand FOUR?!
DANG! Irons guy here, forgot scopes turn the other way! LOL
Adjusted a full MOA right and proceeded to shoot 4 more Bulls and 4 V's
That was with the new brass.
Shot another string with the old
(annealed ) brass and after my two sighters shot a clean 50 with 5V's
All the bulls were well within the 5 ring, No real line cutters it seemed .
I was quite happy with the results .
NOTE:
These loads were all loaded long, then reset to my normal OAL after the cartridges were at the ambient temperature,bout -10c
The 20 rounds for score were all within .75MOA at 300 meters.
My test results show that as long as my wind calls and follow through are on point, the brass whether new or old doesn't really matter
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Hi all
I have these sitting on my desk for a while til the range opens end of April.
That is for my hunting rifle.
10 x 5 rounds of 308, SGK 165 grs, Varget, Federal brass, Federal Match primers, 0.020 jump.
From 44.2 to 46 , in .2 gr increment.
Got an Athlon chrony from one of the members.
Just can't wait...
I have these sitting on my desk for a while til the range opens end of April.
That is for my hunting rifle.
10 x 5 rounds of 308, SGK 165 grs, Varget, Federal brass, Federal Match primers, 0.020 jump.
From 44.2 to 46 , in .2 gr increment.
Got an Athlon chrony from one of the members.
Just can't wait...
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Whipped up some 7 PRC this weekend. First batch was Berger 184 gr Hybrid - two 5 X 5 ladders with N568 and Retumbo. Second batch was Hornady 180 gr ELD Match - two 5 X 5 ladders with Retumbo and StaBall HD. Hoping to find a node around 2,850 to 2,900 fps, which this gun seems to like for bullets in this neigbourhood. All in new Peterson brass, run through a Cortina .2825 expander and using Fed 215M primers. Some significant differences between the Hornady and Hogdgon reloading apps for the 180 gr ELD bullets - the Hogdgon app was more than a grain lower, so went with their recommendation and made sure not to get close to their max. Also made up 20 sighting-in rounds of Berger 184s with a known load of N570.
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While not a whole bunch as far as volume goes I did load my final 2 fine tuning loads for the 69gr smk in .223 with 50 of each on Saturday for the Sunday showdown at high noon between the two although the range didn’t open until 1:00 there was no penalty for arriving late just alot of fanfare from this audience of one hehe
An hour before I left I eyed a bag with 5 150gr interlocks left in it for my .308 and said what the hell….and quickly deprimed, necksized deburr/chamfer (length was still perfect) and prime/powder/pill. Took about 1/2 hour. While I bought that rifle for hunting I find myself bringing it along quite frequently now to the range as I just like shooting it!
How did the showdown go you ask? Well even if you didn’t I’m going to tell you anyway, it went fantastic! While only .01 gr difference and both loads shooting well my original favorite won out over the fine tuning wannabe with consistent group size and shape while the outlier had one group slightly bigger and one slightly smaller I went for consistency. The showdown consisted of 2 10 shot groups of each at 100yds even though I loaded more but time was a factor.
I then did 2 more 10 shot groups at 200yds to confirm and confirm it did! Basically doubled group size (I had one flyer out of the 20) and kept shape.
This will be my 600m load
The 150’s held up their end of the bargain as well so all is good!
An hour before I left I eyed a bag with 5 150gr interlocks left in it for my .308 and said what the hell….and quickly deprimed, necksized deburr/chamfer (length was still perfect) and prime/powder/pill. Took about 1/2 hour. While I bought that rifle for hunting I find myself bringing it along quite frequently now to the range as I just like shooting it!
How did the showdown go you ask? Well even if you didn’t I’m going to tell you anyway, it went fantastic! While only .01 gr difference and both loads shooting well my original favorite won out over the fine tuning wannabe with consistent group size and shape while the outlier had one group slightly bigger and one slightly smaller I went for consistency. The showdown consisted of 2 10 shot groups of each at 100yds even though I loaded more but time was a factor.
I then did 2 more 10 shot groups at 200yds to confirm and confirm it did! Basically doubled group size (I had one flyer out of the 20) and kept shape.
This will be my 600m load
The 150’s held up their end of the bargain as well so all is good!
I made another 3591 rounds of 9mm 147gr ammo.
I have the Mark 7 digital powder measure and I am blown away by how accurate it is. I measure at intervals (started off at 50, results were excellent so I went to 100 and then 300). Bear in mind this is churning out 1500 rounds / hour.
I was using A&D FX-120i Reloading Scales and was within 0.02 for every drop. This was a stick powder which I suspected wouldn't be as consistent as the ball powder I used last time but I was wrong. To be clear 0.02 is the tolerance for my Autotrickler when it drops powder (which I use for my precision ammo).
I have the Mark 7 digital powder measure and I am blown away by how accurate it is. I measure at intervals (started off at 50, results were excellent so I went to 100 and then 300). Bear in mind this is churning out 1500 rounds / hour.
I was using A&D FX-120i Reloading Scales and was within 0.02 for every drop. This was a stick powder which I suspected wouldn't be as consistent as the ball powder I used last time but I was wrong. To be clear 0.02 is the tolerance for my Autotrickler when it drops powder (which I use for my precision ammo).
Just running through another 30 rounds of .223 then it will be back to annealing the 100 lot.
Have 50 new brass to fireform on another batch before I anneal them .
Not loading anything today, mounting a scope for a buddy's 3006 , then out to the range for a basic zero for him.
Cat
Have 50 new brass to fireform on another batch before I anneal them .
Not loading anything today, mounting a scope for a buddy's 3006 , then out to the range for a basic zero for him.
Cat
Maybe automate your press. - dan
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1200 rnds 9mm.
Yesterday and today. Im pretty convinced I need another press. Something a little faster...
Today I rolled up my first ladder of 6.5cm
Went with 140gr eld-x over H4350 in 50 Barnes brass with cci 200 primers
Once this load is good I will fine tune in my Sako brass 150ct , get it dialed in at 600m
Then probably switch to 147gr eld-x and stretch it out to a mile by the summer is the goal anyway.
Rifle is the Tikka tac a1
Went with 140gr eld-x over H4350 in 50 Barnes brass with cci 200 primers
Once this load is good I will fine tune in my Sako brass 150ct , get it dialed in at 600m
Then probably switch to 147gr eld-x and stretch it out to a mile by the summer is the goal anyway.
Rifle is the Tikka tac a1
