Recent content by boomtube

"... i get two to three thousands difference in the length measurements ..." That's nothing. Your rig isn't a BR rifle and you aren't a BR shooter and you aren't loading handmade bullets and you don't have any seating variation that you will ever see on targets. Develop a good load and tiny...

You're experiencing normal bottle neck case expander ball drag. If it bothers you, apply a small amount of case lube to the inside of the case necks.

"Shoot something into the case to kill the primer ..." I don't know what you shoot your primers with but they're a lot more difficult to kill than most people think. I suspect if you chamber and fire some of your 'ded' primers you'll get a surprise. Hardly matters, it's perfectly safe to...

The only 'rule of thumb' that matters is to seat deep enough so the bullets won't fall put with normal handling. If seating was any more critical or complex than that every reloading manual printed would say so.

Everyone luvs his digital scale gadgic, why not, at least it craps out. And it will. Then the luvers are SOL. Unless they have an ol' fashioned but dependable beam scale to fall back on. But, I just can't see what a digital scale is even supposed to bring into play. ?? Beam scales don't...

I grin when I read of people buying costly scales so sensitive they have to sand paper the last kernel to get absolute precision. IMHO, they are kidding themselves. Reloaders have long been provided scales sensitive enough to detect diferences to less than .1 grain and that's as much as we...

I haven't gone back, I never left. I used to make my living in the space program and fed my family by repairing/calibrating precision electonic test equipment to NBS standards, ain't no way I'd use a quirky digital scale on my loading bench except for weighing cases and bullets, NEVER my...

Sounds like you may be lubing the wrong thing. Your cases should need little if any lube but the steel-to-steel contact surfaces of the collet and die body sure does. A bit of oily case lube or, better yet, STP should do wonders for you.

You are correct. I'ne taken quite a few with plain ol' Reminton and Hornady 100 gr. "cup and core" bullets and have never needed to shoot twice. I prefer my .30-06 and 150 gr. bullets but, fact is, it doesn't kill a bit faster or deader with a similar hit. Tell her to put the vertical cross...

I haven't a clue what most do but I only trim sized cases, I don't care what length unsized cases are.

I haven't clue what an average start/stop charge may be. What does your loading manual say? If I gave you my best load and you used it you would be loading for my rifle; you would do yourself a favor by properly developing your own best load.

Your die isn't scratched, it has brass galling on the steel. (Powder carbon has nothing significant to do with it, if that were true a bore would hardly last a hundred rounds.) Galling is caused by rubbing two metals together under high pressure without sufficent lubracant. It starts with dry...

I started with the cheap Lee aluminum press. It worked for about 5 years and then some how I bent the small pin that attaches the straps to the ram. I then starting having issues sizing my 257 weatherby. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The cheap Lee...

I'ne been reloading for some 49 years. I have dies from every one but Dillon and, used correctly, they all load fine. I still have presses from Lyman, Lee and RCBS, have had others. MOST of the comparasions by brand you read about leave out the press models and that very much matters; Lee's...

"Ok so 100 years ago the necks on the cases were softer so they really had no choice but to seat the bullet deep but now the necks aren't as soft as a matter of fact they are harder which started people experimenting with not seating the bullet as deep until it got to the point to were some...