Recent content by Rusty54

Gary Ive read all the other replies to your question. Unfortunately, and this thread isn't unique, they put the cart before the horse. What most reloaders are not realizing is that your brass cartridges must be uniformed and properly cleaned to be able to use them to work up a uniformly...

Bolt actions, Ar's or Shotguns? I suppose that your poll doesn't allow for enough answers to cover my single shots that I use!

Great tip! I've been using them for about a year now and hadn't considered the angle of the sticks before.

Note in the beginnig thread it may not have been clear that as I decrease CW below 94gr in the 5.56 I increase the charge weight by 0.1gr for each 1.0gr decrease. Sorry for the confusion! As I stated in my thread, absolute uniformity is a must, and my desire is to develope accuracy as well as...

I know this is a topic that has been written about very extensively! But what I have never seen discussed is the actual effect of each grain variation in case weight from the average weight of any specific rifle caliber. My interest in this wasn't so much to understand the above question but...

What Mike said, plus you must realise most of us don't use premium brass. Personally almost everything I use is range brass, so I do everything within my ability to uniform them and neck turning is one of the most important steps. Your Norma brass is likely very uniform but this is not...

It's painless or oldpainless on AR15.com who ran the tests.

I base my loading levels on the max preasures achived by 44mag and the 7/30 Waters round. This is the only cartridge out of many that I have ever exceeded max loading levels with and I've put at least a couple thousand rounds down range, with no adverse effects. I do realize the potential for...

Ditto on this one, there's a fellow over on AR15.com who did extensive testing on tumbling live ammo. In long term tumbling, "something more than 24hrs" There was only the slightest surface change to powder granuals "viewable with a microscope" and it resulted in no or very little measure in...

I have quite a bit of experience loading the 30/30 in two different single shots over the last 25 years. The 1st a 14" T/C I was pushing a 150gr Sierra spbt about 2300fps with something north of 30gr IMR 4198. The other is a NAA carbine pushing a very hard cast 155gr Flat nose bullet as high as...

The Rem. 700 is so much better a rifle than the 770 that I wouldn't compare it. A little advice about loading for it is to stay in the 85 to 100gr weights for most hunting conditions. Short range hunting out to 300yds you will get good performace from bulllets down to 70gr, but I think...

I took it one step further and added a 16oz recoil supressor to the buttstock of my rifle, as well as a break. I'm not recoil shy but I do have disk problems in my neck and they don't need undue agrivation. My 300WM I only use for stationary hunting too so I don't care what it weighs...

Sorry to change the subject, but you mention that new brass is pretty much ready to load. That couldn't be farther from the trueth. Like many others here, I FL size all my new brass after I inspect it to cull out the split necks and cracked shoulders which I often find after an initial...

You say that you're shooting match accuracy at 1,000 but you're not satisfied with the performance because its not fast enough/ not enough power. I've never heard someone with that kind of complaint. When I and most sensible people I know work up a load they look for accuracy 1st, last...