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I would like to hunt a whale with a harpoon cannon. When I lived in AK I tried for 20 years to get on a whaling crew out of Barrow...

26 Nosler. With 88 gr of US869 powder the muzzle blast was unbelievable. I rebarreled to 28 Nosler and am much happier with that...

Exactly. Neck tension is a function of how much cold-working you do after annealing. Brass is pretty ductile, so it takes quite a bit...

I generally develop a one bullet use in a rifle and that's what I stay with. It has to meet my wants. Which is grouping and velocity...

Yep. Backwards from the way I started out annealing, too. But seems to give a little lower muzzle velocity Es.

Yes, I size and clean (in a vibratory tumbler) before annealing. That makes sure there isn't any lube left inside the case neck when I...

My brass after annealing only has about .0015" spring back after bullet seating. So any "tension" (that is, case neck sizing down below...

Using the Pressure Trace to get real world data was THE biggest eye opener for me. I had QL and ran the numbers side by side, what it...

Agreed. Given a bore size, case capacity and bullet weight, you'll get the best speed with a powder that is slow enough that you can...

For me, it all comes back to the burn rate of the powder I plan to use. Slow powders need long barrels. Fast powders don't. In general...

This is a great way to approach this question. I feel the same as Mikecr about muzzle blast. I hunted for many years with a 338...

Personally I've never found a standard length barrel (26") to be cumbersome. I see a lot of guys use the short barrel as a means for...

I like 29" and 29.5" long barrels for 2 reasons, one is that it fits in my rifle bag snugly, and two is that it provides very similar...

Using QL, I calc out a load, and barrel length is adjusted to limit muzzle pressure to ~8Kpsi. Then barrel profile is adjusted to...

Not sure I'd ever want to be without a 28 Nosler. But if you have the 4" version of Wyatt's box magazine, a 300 RUM would be a...