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<blockquote data-quote="milboltnut" data-source="post: 2460945" data-attributes="member: 117662"><p>I got a little obsessed with bullets and powder but that's it. But if you learn what you really need and not fall prey to the guys who say, " you have to have this otherwise it won't be right" mentality, then you should be ok. Just like anything else.. depends on where your heart it. Where ever you treasure is there also will be your heart. But I think for the most part we're past the impressionable age.</p><p></p><p>My first rifle was a sporterized 303 brit, with a Lee loader, then an RCBS partner press, a beam scale, powder trickler and Lyman dies. Accuracy less than acceptable. Still shot 4 to 5 inch groups at 100 yards. Never killed a deer with it. Stepped up to a 8mm M48 with a barrel scope mount. Killed my first deer with it. From there a Savage 111 270 Win. Got not better accuracy then with factory ammo. However... I bout PMP factory ammo and got phenomenal accuracy. No idea at the time why. I don't see this ammo on the market anymore, but knowing what I know now what they did to make it shoot that well in a unbedded Lee? Well stick around long enough and research on your own and you'll find out. From the 270 I settled on my M70/06 and bedded it. Shoots great, but a load I developed last summer opened up a bit in the fall and learned that I'll have to use a temp stabled powder.</p><p></p><p>Neck tension/turning, OAL, primer selection (mag for me), made the difference for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milboltnut, post: 2460945, member: 117662"] I got a little obsessed with bullets and powder but that's it. But if you learn what you really need and not fall prey to the guys who say, " you have to have this otherwise it won't be right" mentality, then you should be ok. Just like anything else.. depends on where your heart it. Where ever you treasure is there also will be your heart. But I think for the most part we're past the impressionable age. My first rifle was a sporterized 303 brit, with a Lee loader, then an RCBS partner press, a beam scale, powder trickler and Lyman dies. Accuracy less than acceptable. Still shot 4 to 5 inch groups at 100 yards. Never killed a deer with it. Stepped up to a 8mm M48 with a barrel scope mount. Killed my first deer with it. From there a Savage 111 270 Win. Got not better accuracy then with factory ammo. However... I bout PMP factory ammo and got phenomenal accuracy. No idea at the time why. I don't see this ammo on the market anymore, but knowing what I know now what they did to make it shoot that well in a unbedded Lee? Well stick around long enough and research on your own and you'll find out. From the 270 I settled on my M70/06 and bedded it. Shoots great, but a load I developed last summer opened up a bit in the fall and learned that I'll have to use a temp stabled powder. Neck tension/turning, OAL, primer selection (mag for me), made the difference for me. [/QUOTE]
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