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Reloading
Reloading - Is it still really worth it?
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 2369862" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>I've done the same. There was a time when I couldn't afford to experiment much, so I would look in the Lyman manual and load their accuracy load, and work up to what I wanted in velocity. I still have an old Speer manual from 1965 and use it. I think it is Speer no. 8. I used it for most of my loads up into the '90's. I was in the Army then, and living on a Staff Sargeant's pay while supporting a wife and two kids. I had a Lyman turret press and RCBS dies that were probably 15 years old, but they worked. I bought them while working in the Oil Field before it dried up thanks to Carter. I could buy primers and Speer or Sierra bullets at the main PX in Fort Carson, so I could afford to reload, but that was the only way. I'm a little (or a lot) influenced by old times and so I don't worry about whether my rifle/load combination will shoot into less than 0.5 at 100 yards, and believe that perfect is the enemy of good enough. If I have a hunting weight rifle that I can get down to 1" or less consistently, that's good enough for killing game at 600 to 700 yards, and that's all I need. I do have heavy barrelled rifles in 25-06, 308 Win, 223/5.56, and 30-06 which will go inside 0.5" with the same loads, however. The 30-06 is the winner, with an ER Shaw barrel that's 20" and made on a small ring Mauser 98 action. It is a full bull barrel, and shoots one slightly ragged hole with Hornaday Amaxes. Velocity with the 168 grain Amax is around 2730 or so, but it'll stay supersonic out to 1100 at sealevel, so that's good enough. This load with IMR 4350 also shoots well in my three M1 Garands and is capable of consistent sub 0.8" 5 shot groups in my -03A3 with the original August 43 barrel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 2369862, member: 60453"] I've done the same. There was a time when I couldn't afford to experiment much, so I would look in the Lyman manual and load their accuracy load, and work up to what I wanted in velocity. I still have an old Speer manual from 1965 and use it. I think it is Speer no. 8. I used it for most of my loads up into the '90's. I was in the Army then, and living on a Staff Sargeant's pay while supporting a wife and two kids. I had a Lyman turret press and RCBS dies that were probably 15 years old, but they worked. I bought them while working in the Oil Field before it dried up thanks to Carter. I could buy primers and Speer or Sierra bullets at the main PX in Fort Carson, so I could afford to reload, but that was the only way. I'm a little (or a lot) influenced by old times and so I don't worry about whether my rifle/load combination will shoot into less than 0.5 at 100 yards, and believe that perfect is the enemy of good enough. If I have a hunting weight rifle that I can get down to 1" or less consistently, that's good enough for killing game at 600 to 700 yards, and that's all I need. I do have heavy barrelled rifles in 25-06, 308 Win, 223/5.56, and 30-06 which will go inside 0.5" with the same loads, however. The 30-06 is the winner, with an ER Shaw barrel that's 20" and made on a small ring Mauser 98 action. It is a full bull barrel, and shoots one slightly ragged hole with Hornaday Amaxes. Velocity with the 168 grain Amax is around 2730 or so, but it'll stay supersonic out to 1100 at sealevel, so that's good enough. This load with IMR 4350 also shoots well in my three M1 Garands and is capable of consistent sub 0.8" 5 shot groups in my -03A3 with the original August 43 barrel. [/QUOTE]
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