The "What Have You Reloaded Today" thread

I loaded this - 40gr V-max and IMR4198 in Lapua Match cases with BR4 primers for my old L461 .222 Rem. I flinched on the 5th shot I was so excited. Best group out of that gun.

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Reloaded some rem 260 120 Gr TSX with 44.5gr IMR 4350... working out the best COAL for some accuracy so a few different lengths. looks like .090 jump might be the winner
 
Last night 60 rounds of 308 win. 41.7 gr imr4064, gm210m, 175smk and lapua brass. I tried out the chargemaster I had it overthrowing by 0.2gr, so I set to 41.5 gr 9/10 dropped 41.7gr. It's at least consistently consistent? This was after doing the McDonald's straw trick. Before it was throwing 0.1-0.8gr over.
 
loaded 20 of my first 223 rounds yesterday

R-P 1x fl sized trim to 1.754 / cci 400 / 26.5r CFE 223 / 53gr v-max / 2.265oal

didn't find my lands but will next batch and start upping the charge, should be fun :)
 
bsand said:
Last night 60 rounds of 308 win. 41.7 gr imr4064, gm210m, 175smk and lapua brass. I tried out the chargemaster I had it overthrowing by 0.2gr, so I set to 41.5 gr 9/10 dropped 41.7gr. It's at least consistently consistent? This was after doing the McDonald's straw trick. Before it was throwing 0.1-0.8gr over.
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That's weird, mine throws almost all loads perfectly. I occasionally get an over or under if I bump the table seating a bullet while it's still dispensing.
 
cr5 said:
That's weird, mine throws almost all loads perfectly. I occasionally get an over or under if I bump the table seating a bullet while it's still dispensing.
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I thought mine did too, until I bumped the pan after it threw; that was how I realized it was off. So now after each throw, I let it finish then I lift up the pan and reweigh the throw. Usually its over for 4064 so I set it to throw 0.2gr less at 41.5 and its bang on to 41.7.
 
LUTNIT said:


Paper patched .303B rounds. Started as .309" 200gr cast, PP'ed up to .317" or so. Trying them in a Martini-Enfield with a terribly worn bore; slugs around .316".

I know the wraps don't line up; this was more of a hail mary attempt to get the rifle to shoot before looking at having it rebarreled. I'll do the tweaking later if there's any promise. In the past I've found poorly wrapped bullets to still work but not shoot as well. If they don't keyhole, I'll be happy.
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And my wife is looking over my shoulder and says, "That's an interesting chessboard!"
 
Trinimon said:
Loaded up just 25rnds of 223 with 69gr SMKs from 23-25gr Varget in 0.5gr increments. Going to do a load test on a new AR upper SPR build.
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I like to go by 0.2 or 0.3 with 223 because the case capacity is so small.
I need to start trying Varget again, I have over ten pounds of it and haven't loaded anything with it since last summer.
 
cr5 said:
I like to go by 0.2 or 0.3 with 223 because the case capacity is so small.
I need to start trying Varget again, I have over ten pounds of it and haven't loaded anything with it since last summer.
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Yeah, that occurred to me after when I was on the range the other day. The night I did those reloads, I was looking at some earlier reloading data I did back in summer and was wondering why I went up 0.3gr per load. Brain fart. No wonder all the groups were pretty close in size. lol
 
Another 250 .44 mag and finally got around to some .308. After reading all the posts about seating depth and jump etc. I loaded 32 rounds all with 42.2 grains of Hodgdon H-335, Federal Match LR primers and 155grain Hornady A-Max bullets.
8 of each (2 mags worth) were seated to COAL of 2.870". 2.840". 2.810" and 2.780". The longest is .020" off the lands as close as I could determine and the shortest is .005" longer than the published COAL. Now just gotta find a day to get out and try them.
 
More .257 Roberts and 7X57 and .243 and .308 and 7.62X39 and .22/250 and more .218 Bee... gonna try some new post season loads.
 
Sadly nothing because I haven't gotten a chance to get out to the farm and "empty" any brass since hunting season closed.
 
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