Recent content by Retired2021

Where are you located? I am traveling and I am interested if you are close to my route.

Yes, 223

I recently looked for posts on using Hammer bullets on coyotes. The reason is that I have a friend wanting a "fur friendly" bullet. Becasue of my experience with Hammer Bullets on deer and elk I thought they might be fur friendly. I am pretty poor at computer things and didn't find much in...

Oregon wildlife management is all about protecting the wolf, cougar and bear. Deer and elk numbers are on a continual decline. I hunt the High Desert, it is not because of the quality, it is the only place where it is not crowded. It can take 3 days of hard hunting to find an elk track. As...

I have a 300 SAUM in the Remington 7 short action. Because the mag is short, any loads that shot well had to be hand fed. I had a fantastic load with Nosler 180 BT at 0.020 off the lands, but to mag limited to 0.080. I switched to the Hammer 165 PH and have been very happy. 24" barrel CCI BR2...

I have had great sucess with QL on five other rifles using Nosler and Hornady bullets. For example on a Howa 7 RM I developed a great load in 14 rounds (granted I already had seating depth for that bullet from work up using another powder). At 200 yards a four shot group was 1/2 inch vertical...

Thanks everyone. I will try to answer each of your questions with one post. asd9055: the other calibers I am working on I am using Horniday and Nosler. QL seems to fit those bullets very well. I asjusted temperature (QL default at 70, my measured at 35). I have measured fired cases from...

I purchased QuickLoad a few months ago and wish I had purchased it before I bought about 30 lbs of powder of different varities that I don't need now. I am practicing with 7 different calabers in learning hunting reloading. I have been using QL and OBT and have had good sucess with arriving at...

Thanks Navydoc. That is exaclty what asked of Nosler (to replace the rejects) and received no reply. With your message as encouragement I will try again. I get to Bend a couple of times a year, I may drop in and see if they are rude face to face.

I have used blem brass and bullets for years with very few complaints. My nose is most out of joint becasue of the lack of interest by Nosler in the fact they let a reject product out the door and wouldn't bother to communicate about it. As soon as other brands of brass is available I will be...

I recently purchased 100 pieces of 28 Nosler brass from Shooters Pro Shop. These were blems. It is my understanding that "blems" are useable but have visual blemishes such as small dents, water spots etc. The blems I received were 25% unusable. If I can I will attach a picture. The necks were...

mtJim. Thank you for sharing your experience. It seems to me that a lot of folks don't like QL. I wonder if it is because they don't take the time to tune QL to their rifle and powder. My experience so far has been very positive using QL, except for one rifle, a Rugar Compact in 223...

abstewart66, that was very helpful, thank you. Also thank you to the other replies. I wish I had started with purchasing QL a year ago. It would have saved me a lot of money purchasing powder and wasted components. I am still not sure about OBT. It worked very well on two rifles, then not...

I just started using Quick Load and tuning loads with OBT (I assume that means optimal barrel time?) to tune loads. I have two rifles that it seems to have worked very well in load development. I have a couple of questions for the LRH community. Question 1: What do you think of using Quick Load...

With my Vortex Furry 5000 HD AB I ranged a rimrock at 2000 yd (overcast day). I ranged a hawk sitting in a field at 917 yards. I could not believe it was actually ranging the hawk so I spent about 10 minutes testing beside it on each side, in front and behind. For long distances a tripod is a...