Recent content by Seabeeken

Perhaps that is the point of the Grand powder, replacing the belgium made variety. Too many games at Hodgdon for me. enjoy

For a change, I dropped the entire Hodgdon line including their recently acquired companies. Never going back.

As I get ready to hunt coyotes I have a few questions and ask for helpful advice. I live in the mountains of NC is a slightly residential area but have enough land to hunt. I am picking up coyotes on camera from time to time and would like to improve my chances of calling some in. I have an...

Double based are not necessarily harder on barrels. Many double based ball powders are cooler burning than single based. ALL Ramshot powders are double based ball powders produced by PB Clermont in Europe (unless Hodgdon has changed this). I have the entire RS line and find them very accurate...

Tried the hornady wax. Worked well. I bit harder than imperial but seemed to lube great and wiped off easy. Also tried the adg case lube. Put it on a lube pad. Very good stuff. Wipes off easy and a clean dry case is left. Ill keep it.

1st pic was speer the rest nosler. Added nosler afterward

From an older Speer manual. Find some older manuals, they are full of info. I'd anneal first and check for a donut after forming

Yeah, I got rid of most all my powders after hodgdon dropped a number of them and got greedy and went with just one brand. I wont be going back

Never had socom. I did have many other Lovex made powders though. 11FS is nearly the same as H-110 but with a flash suppressant added. I tried it because the rifle had a short barrel and thought the FS might be handy. It shot well with Hornady 170, .262" and ES of 2. Most guys like Lil-Gun. It...

Hope you stopped and bought a lottery ticket on the way home

He says he did not try it. I tested Lil-Gun, 4100, 5744, 2400, and 11FS with several bullets. 5744 and 4100 weren't good

No but 2400 was the stuff for the 125 gr Maker. Shot .037" and no group was over .7. Tore up 6" steel at 300 yds. Afriend may have tried socom and have a call out to him about it.

There sure is. I would load a few rounds and shoot across a chrono. Take the speed data and input into the GRT OBT tool and there is a button to correct the powder model to YOUR rifle and cartridge. I do it for every rifle I have.

Interesting. I saw a tin of Hornady sizing wax and picked it up. Had never tried it. Opened the tin and the scent of STP jumped out at me. It sure smells like STP in wax. Smelled a lot of it during my years in the 70's rebuilding engines. Richard Petty apparently sold a lot of it. Internals...

Like FFF said, you might like the newer torch holder. It looks like a muffler clamp and is separate from the main unit. Sort of a much larger version of just jons cable clamp that clamps onto the propane tank