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Best reloader for Precision long range?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 1148537" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>many years back, I worked with a guy that was part of an Army Reserve shooting team. They shot N.M. M14 rifles with peep sights at 1000 yards. For the longest times I thought they were shooting at 500 yards or less. One day Ralph comes in with a half dozen great big targets that had eight inch groups on them. I said to myself that he ought to be doing better than that at 500 yards! Then he tells me they are 1000 yard targets with Lake City match ammo! He asked me about reloading 7.62x51 ammo, and I told we could do that. He comes over to the house and sees my Co-Ax and asked what that contraption was? The rules they shot with stipulated the bullet and case, so we pulled about a hundred bullets and save the powder. I had him pick up a hundred or so cases at the range the next time they shot. He brings the cases over with three of his shooting buddies. I ran them thru a generic Forster .308 die that I borrowed from a buddy of mine. Seated Federal primers, and nothing else. We reloaded the cases with the saved powder and maybe got fifty rounds that had about .0017" of run out. He comes in the following Monday with another four or five targets that had six inch groups. Tuesday morning I hear a knock on the door, and now we have a half dozen guys from his group. They are buying reloading equipment and want to know what I was using. I sent them up to see Fred Sinclair, and they came home with some really nice stuff and three new Forster presses with .308 N.M. dies. ( nice to have a lot of money to spend!!!!) Now I teach them what little I knew at the time, and they are about to drive Fred nuts with phone calls. Two or three months later Ralph comes into work and tells me his team has won the U.S. Army Reserve nation shooting championship, and will now start competing against Army and Marine units. Ralph was dead a year later. Cancer got him.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 1148537, member: 25383"] many years back, I worked with a guy that was part of an Army Reserve shooting team. They shot N.M. M14 rifles with peep sights at 1000 yards. For the longest times I thought they were shooting at 500 yards or less. One day Ralph comes in with a half dozen great big targets that had eight inch groups on them. I said to myself that he ought to be doing better than that at 500 yards! Then he tells me they are 1000 yard targets with Lake City match ammo! He asked me about reloading 7.62x51 ammo, and I told we could do that. He comes over to the house and sees my Co-Ax and asked what that contraption was? The rules they shot with stipulated the bullet and case, so we pulled about a hundred bullets and save the powder. I had him pick up a hundred or so cases at the range the next time they shot. He brings the cases over with three of his shooting buddies. I ran them thru a generic Forster .308 die that I borrowed from a buddy of mine. Seated Federal primers, and nothing else. We reloaded the cases with the saved powder and maybe got fifty rounds that had about .0017" of run out. He comes in the following Monday with another four or five targets that had six inch groups. Tuesday morning I hear a knock on the door, and now we have a half dozen guys from his group. They are buying reloading equipment and want to know what I was using. I sent them up to see Fred Sinclair, and they came home with some really nice stuff and three new Forster presses with .308 N.M. dies. ( nice to have a lot of money to spend!!!!) Now I teach them what little I knew at the time, and they are about to drive Fred nuts with phone calls. Two or three months later Ralph comes into work and tells me his team has won the U.S. Army Reserve nation shooting championship, and will now start competing against Army and Marine units. Ralph was dead a year later. Cancer got him. gary [/QUOTE]
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