Recent content by TRexF16

In John Barsness' extensive work with the Nine-Three, 60.5/Varget for 250 grain and 66/Big Game for 286 grain were his best. These loads are at 30-06 level pressures (a bit under 60K PSI). John has written that lot-to-lot variations may require adjusting the loads to hit the velocities listed...

It really sounds like your case may be based of the 280 or 280 AI vs the basic 30-06 case. That .050" difference at the shoulder is spot-on for the difference between the 30-06/.270 Win and the .280 Rem shoulders. I bet you'd get a good fit with a factory 280 AI case, and could either do the...

Keep in mind that some recent (like three years ago - pre-Covid) lots of Winchester "blue box" brass cup LR and LRM primers have been significantly undersized and might make it look like your primer pockets were oversized when in reality the primers were just undersized. I discovered this when...

I have measured Norma cases (current sample is 30-06, 270 WSM, and 338-06) and they are the shallowest primer pockets I have encountered on any brass. My measurements show those above as right at the minimum standard spec for LR primer pockets. I have had to lightly cut all my Norma brass...

That's your answer. Google "Cream of Wheat fireforming" and you'll find a lot of other hints to use this technique.

Quite a pile there partner!

Hey, it keeps you off the street! That stuff is a lobor of love for me, but then, I have a brass fetish. Rex

Concur with the above, unless they're LC Match, which I'm sure you'd have mentioned if they were. I've got many hundreds of factory loaded once-fired (in a bolt rifle, not AR or machine gun), Federal and PMC .308 Win brass, deprimed and wet-tumble polished, that I'll sell for 30 cents each plus...

I expect Hornady would replace the die no problem, if you show them these pictures. I have run into a couple bad dies over the years and all were immediately replaced by their makers. Good luck, Rex

I agree with you but MagPro is FAR more temperature sensitive than Magnum. My results with the 270 WSM show MagPro at 1 FPS per degree ambient temp change. Magnum was less than half that. MagPro shot great at lower temps, but as the mercury climbed, it pushed it right out of the node and...

John Barsness found it to be nicely temperature resistant in his very carefully executed trials. It is stellar with 115 Partitions in my .257 Roberts. I've run it in a bunch of bigger cases too and it's never been bad." Cheers, Rex

I use Butterbean's annealing method, and do so with Little Crow gun works mandrels. I feel I'm a little more precise with those than with a socket. I do the heating in a dark room, and pull the case from the flame at the very first hint of a glow. Takes 4-4.5 seconds with most 30-06. Longer...

Out of a sample of over 200, Hornady 30-06 average 176 grains. And they are very consistent. Necks are thin, averaging .012" +/- .0005". This is excellent neck wall consistency but some folks might prefer thicker necks depending on their chamber. Winchester and Remington vary much more widely...

Not to speak for memtb, but that's gonna be a "no." I'm quite sure I know which site he means... LOL

As mentioned earlier - the easy button for a 9.3x62 is finding any 270 or 30-06 you like (and hopefully get for peanuts with a shot out or pitted bore) and send it to JES with $275 for a rebore to 9.3x62. Look for one with a heavier barrel than the normal light sporter contour if you can - talk...