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good PRECISION reloading book?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 93768" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>RDM416, I gotta say something about your comment below:</p><p></p><p>"A few days ago I saw a post about seating bullets with multiple short strokes and rotating the case in the process. The reason for this over just seating a bullet with a single stroke is obvious, I had just never heard of it before. My question is, how many other little tricks like this do precision loaders use that like that one I have never heard of??"</p><p></p><p>The above seating process is not a little (nor big) trick. Bullets seat themselves pretty much aligned with the case neck axis. If the neck is bent off axis from the case body, the bullet will seat crooked regardless of how it's pushed in the neck.</p><p></p><p>If your resized cases have straight necks, you can almost use a ball peen hammer to seat bullets and they'll be very straight. Or at least a conventional seating die. Bullets cannot be seated straight in a case with a bent neck. Expander balls bend case necks.</p><p></p><p>Looking at the track record of the two girls who have won the 1000-yard individual matches at the nationals 5 times each (one with scope the other with aperture sights), these gals are probably shooting the most accurate 6.5x284 rifles on this planet. The guy who makes their rifles and loads their ammo is a dad to the younger one shooting scope and husband to the other one shooting irons. He full-length resizes the cases but doesn't use expander balls. The die's neck is opened up just enough to full-length size the cases and set the shoulder back a couple thousandths. The case necks are very straight. He, his wife and daughter have been winning matches and setting records for years. There are no tricks to his reloading processes; plain, simple use of good components. And those rifles will probably shoot all day long inside 5 to 6 inches at 1000 yards. Oh, his other daughter won the world long range championships a year or two ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 93768, member: 5302"] RDM416, I gotta say something about your comment below: "A few days ago I saw a post about seating bullets with multiple short strokes and rotating the case in the process. The reason for this over just seating a bullet with a single stroke is obvious, I had just never heard of it before. My question is, how many other little tricks like this do precision loaders use that like that one I have never heard of??" The above seating process is not a little (nor big) trick. Bullets seat themselves pretty much aligned with the case neck axis. If the neck is bent off axis from the case body, the bullet will seat crooked regardless of how it's pushed in the neck. If your resized cases have straight necks, you can almost use a ball peen hammer to seat bullets and they'll be very straight. Or at least a conventional seating die. Bullets cannot be seated straight in a case with a bent neck. Expander balls bend case necks. Looking at the track record of the two girls who have won the 1000-yard individual matches at the nationals 5 times each (one with scope the other with aperture sights), these gals are probably shooting the most accurate 6.5x284 rifles on this planet. The guy who makes their rifles and loads their ammo is a dad to the younger one shooting scope and husband to the other one shooting irons. He full-length resizes the cases but doesn't use expander balls. The die's neck is opened up just enough to full-length size the cases and set the shoulder back a couple thousandths. The case necks are very straight. He, his wife and daughter have been winning matches and setting records for years. There are no tricks to his reloading processes; plain, simple use of good components. And those rifles will probably shoot all day long inside 5 to 6 inches at 1000 yards. Oh, his other daughter won the world long range championships a year or two ago. [/QUOTE]
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