Recent content by Tgardne7

Great, thanks for the help.

So would you recommend seating the bullet a little deeper? Like how much? And try a few grains less powder? Am I okay running magnum primers?

My COAL was 3.480 for this round. Which i suppose then i would need 3.492 to touch the lands. So what does it mean that I have a short throated rifle? How does it need to be treated versus a rifle that doesn't have a short throat?

It is close to being compressed, but it isn't.

I'm new to reloading so i dont have a chronograph yet. It's being jumped 0.012in. Federal brass. I guess I wondered if it was best to drop the load or hunt for a different powder.

I just reloaded some cartridges for 300 win mag with retumbo powder. I followed the hodgdon website recommendations for the load. 220 gr HPBT Sierra MatchKing is the projectile. Winchester large rifle magnum primers. I used a charge of 77 gr and had a couple primers blow out. I backed down to 76...