The Plan... 30-06 165 gr Nosler BT IMR 4350

Hi MudChucker, did you verify the brass lenght after your full lenght resizing.... unless I miss you did not mention measuring nor trimming to size the brass, on new brass once fired factory load generally after the first full lenght resizing I found that many exceed the norm and must be trim. Your choice of bullet is excellent for hunting but for paper punch I use hornady or speer and I get the same result. On my savage 110 LH all component same as yours I get very good results at 55.5 - 56.0 grain
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roberto
 
roberto, yes, sorry I might not have been clear - I did trim each case with the lyman - its worth noting, that very very very little needed to be shaved off...

I recognize that there are going to be cheaper loads for paper punching, and I'll do a workup on those as well... but for now I'd like to get my coyote and livestock protection round perfected.
 
You'll probably have better success around 55-57gr. Too low a charge won't be a good thing. I wouldn't start more than 10% below max. Any reason for wanting to run such a light powder charge?
 
BigUglyMan, no reason to want to run a light charge... keep in mind this is my first time reloading and I dont actually know where the boundaries of light and hot loads are. I figured I have to start some where and work up...and with some of the books suggesting 53 gr and up I decided 55 would be the point that I started... my final loads were, 55gr 56gr 56.5gr and 57gr
 
No need to go out and buy an inertial puller (though eventually they are a good tool to have around). Your "too-deep" loads won't be unsafe. They'll also probably shoot just the same as the rest, they will be far better than simply "blasting quality".

Nosler Ballistic Tips are wonderful bullets. They used to be a bit cheaper than match bullets, and were useful to use as "backups" to match bullets if you couldn't get match bullets. But then Nosler seemed to figure that out, and started packing them in boxes of 50 for nearly the same price as the older boxes of 100, so they now no longer have the virtue of being a bit cheaper. They're still awfully darn accurate though.

Re: seating die adjustment, set it up so that it is *not* crimping the case mouth. The RCBS instructions will tell you how (though I find that they are difficult to follow!).

When you trim your cases to length, it is nice if you can also chamfer the inside of the case mouth (so that it doesn't cut/shave the bullet when seating) and the outside of the case mouth (so that it feeds a bit more smoothly). Redding makes a nice "Cadillac" chamfering tool, the cheapy Lee one does just as good a job though it's not as pleasant to use.
 
I believe I have followed the directions correctly re seating without crimping,

its the seating with crimping instructions that seem incredibly difficult to follow... they should have written them out as numbered step by step instructions.
 
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