Father Hood
Regular
- Location
- Lower Mainland, BC
Not sure if this section is the best for all this but just wanted to share my day yesterday as many things I have wanted to put together worked out well.
My main focus was to set myself up to be able to load rounds for testing out in the field. I enjoy developing loads but find it a pain to go back and forth to the range until you get where you want to with the loads. So I attempted to set up a reloading station out of the back of my Jeep. I prep the brass before hand so just really powder charges and seating depth. But I can now load just one round at a time at first, simply turn around and fire it over the magnetospeed and find out my velocity immediately. It worked very well. I had already built a bit of a sub floor in the back of my jeep for bug out containers full of cooking stuff and tools, so I just added a bit more support for my press and it worked easily. The next hurdle was how to power my RCBS chargemaster. Just too spoiled by this thing to use anything else. So I did some research and found out some of these portable automobile power stations would work. So sure enough it works perfectly and it powered my chargemaster all day.
The RPR is new to me and am just starting to develop for it, but was really interested in trying out IMR's new(ish) Enduron powder for its temperature stability and copper reducing agent. I had a few pounds of different ones but had some pretty good luck with IMR 4955. Found the RPR to be a bit more picky as it was only near the point I was about to quit with this powder and try something else that I ended up with the target below and went..Whew!! good enough for me.
So I was using 105g Amax's with IMR 4955 and was happy with 2952 fps average. It goes faster but this group was actually quite easy to do with this load so I stayed there.
I shot 3 rounds at first to test this powder charge and they were tight so I loaded up 5 more and figured if this was a good load then the next five should go right on top of the first three. So I went back on the same group and shot 5 more pretty much right on top. I honestly called the last shot cause after shooting a total of 7 and watching them all land in the same spot I kinda got nervous about how long I could keep doing this. ha ha. So like most times with the last shot, I got flaky and pulled it a bit. oh well. I was still happy.
Group not counting the flyer was right around .5"..and with the flyer was about .75".
My main focus was to set myself up to be able to load rounds for testing out in the field. I enjoy developing loads but find it a pain to go back and forth to the range until you get where you want to with the loads. So I attempted to set up a reloading station out of the back of my Jeep. I prep the brass before hand so just really powder charges and seating depth. But I can now load just one round at a time at first, simply turn around and fire it over the magnetospeed and find out my velocity immediately. It worked very well. I had already built a bit of a sub floor in the back of my jeep for bug out containers full of cooking stuff and tools, so I just added a bit more support for my press and it worked easily. The next hurdle was how to power my RCBS chargemaster. Just too spoiled by this thing to use anything else. So I did some research and found out some of these portable automobile power stations would work. So sure enough it works perfectly and it powered my chargemaster all day.
The RPR is new to me and am just starting to develop for it, but was really interested in trying out IMR's new(ish) Enduron powder for its temperature stability and copper reducing agent. I had a few pounds of different ones but had some pretty good luck with IMR 4955. Found the RPR to be a bit more picky as it was only near the point I was about to quit with this powder and try something else that I ended up with the target below and went..Whew!! good enough for me.
So I was using 105g Amax's with IMR 4955 and was happy with 2952 fps average. It goes faster but this group was actually quite easy to do with this load so I stayed there. I shot 3 rounds at first to test this powder charge and they were tight so I loaded up 5 more and figured if this was a good load then the next five should go right on top of the first three. So I went back on the same group and shot 5 more pretty much right on top. I honestly called the last shot cause after shooting a total of 7 and watching them all land in the same spot I kinda got nervous about how long I could keep doing this. ha ha. So like most times with the last shot, I got flaky and pulled it a bit. oh well. I was still happy.
Group not counting the flyer was right around .5"..and with the flyer was about .75".
Hats off to you good sir! 
