re: Reloading Manual

Give it another five years and maybe you'll have it figured out.

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TheDrunkenTigah

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Have a crossfire on my tikka 22-250. Not bad for a <200 chinese scope. Put a Diamondback on my 35 whelen bc it's made for magnum recoil (per the website). That tikka may get restocked and get a VX3 down the road. It wrecks coyotes with regular varmageddons... probly not gonna reload for it. BTW, midway has free shipping right now. Ordered some sierra blitzkings for the 243 today.

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I'm way (really way) in the hole right now.

this past year I bought a K&M arbor press, LE Wilson dies in 6.5cm, K&M neck turning tool, new primer seating tool, annealer, and an autotrickler V3.

It'll be a while before I dig out of that one...

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Baw, you bought some of the best of the best, top of the line reloading supplies. They are precision made , benchrest quality supplies that will last a lifetime. I did the exact same thing in 1992 and purchased Wilson hand dies, Neil Jones powder measurer , Sinclair press, Hood press, Oehler 35P chronograph, Titanium neck sizing bushings, Redding and Wilson bushing dies, Lucas bore guides, Sinclair hand primer, Dewey cleaning rods, and tons of Sinclair stuff. Approximately 30 yrs later I still use the same items that produce tiny 1-hole groups. Buy once,cry once brother as you’re already ahead of the game.

Sounds like a plan.
FYI, Dvor is having some scope sales on Vortex right now.

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Baw, you bought some of the best of the best, top of the line reloading supplies. They are precision made , benchrest quality supplies that will last a lifetime.

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I'm trying to get everything set up and my S/Ds into the low single digits so I can start shooting in LR competition at my gun club.

I have thoroughly enjoyed tinkering with all the different aspects of reloading and trying to get that hole as small as possible.

My best so far is .314", 5 shot group at 100yds
that was pushing a 143gr bullet 2711 fps average with an S/D of 8.7 and ES of 27.

I would like to get that speed up a little and find a lower S/D.

I will say that the LabRadar is a wonderful tool.

Well I made a little progress on having reloading save me money, and this will be a little bit of a PSA. If your local academy sells reloading stuff, and most don’t, they are marking down all rcbs stuff go exclusive with Hornady. I just walked out with a rock chucker supreme for $60.

Yeah I couldn’t believe it either, I saw it on the shelf yesterday with no price on it, decided to come back and get it since academy is usually pretty close to amazon pricing. After I scanned it with the aisle scanner I ran to the counter. They had a ton of rcbs dies on clearance too, just none I had an eye for.

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I would use Lapua brass with the small primer pocket.

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I always recommend Lapua, as well, when accuracy is important. OTOH, there may be some new players in the game. I check case neck concentricity of new brass. For hunting rounds, I cull any pieces that vary >0.003". For varmint hunting, I cull at 0.002". W/ Rem and Win, I usually cull 20-30/100 that are >0.003". Lapua culls usually runs < 5/100. Nosler and Hornady are in between. I've just started loading some new brass, Starline (260 Rem) and Peterson (6mm BR to be necked down to 22 BR). At 0.002" neck variance, I only culled 1/50 for Starline and 0/50 for Peterson. Most of the Peterson were <0.001" variance. Peterson also came in an MTM plastic case, had punched flash holes and the inside of the neck chamfered. I'm looking forward to seeing how accurate the new brass shoots.

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Now I'm looking at a wet tumbler so there goes another $300.

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Midsouth Sale

I have a full size FART and it does a great job. This is a good price on a small batch size. Midsouth is great to deal with.

Another great PSA would be to let everyone know when one of these places has a haz-mat fee waiver special