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Congratulations on getting back home! I'm sure you'll enjoy those dies too!

De-prime then I wet tumble with stainless steel shavings, Lemishine & hot water for only 15 minutes. This short duration cleaning preserves the carbon inside the neck. I then rinse with hot fresh water & check for any shavings in the brass & a clear primer hole. Then they go on the dehydrator...

In theory, your nodes should be about 3% apart with regard to powder charge. So your groups for A & D seem to reflect that. If you move to the next node up ~45.3 plus or minus, you should see another tighter group and perhaps your bullet/barrel prefers to be run faster. You will need to do...

I believe they are a lead core bullet so I'm puzzled why you would use Barnes data?

Hi HNDLDR, I'll try to explain my earlier post. There are two things going on when fire forming brass. 1) the brass absorbs energy in the process of being permanently deformed to a new, different shape, 2) the fire formed brass has a new larger volume then the unformed brass so the pressure...

During the forming of the brass the brass case will absorb some of the energy in the process of deforming to your chamber/bolt. After it is fully formed, that energy will not be diminished and should give you higher velocities and more pressure so you may want to back off a little instead of...

I have both the coax & T7 but prefer the T7 for sizing & seating with Redding S dies as I think the vertical tolerance is less for controlling the length of neck sizing and seating depth. I use the Creedmoor Sports head as well.

No, the initial pressure spike will be higher if you decrease the volume of the case, for a given powder charge, by seating the bullet deeper into the brass case. By the time the bullet has traveled into the freebore the volume that the powder has to work against has increased thereby reducing...

Varget in a Tikka with 140 grain bullets around 3000 fps in my wife's 7-08. Not home for about a week so I can't provide specifics but I've posted in other similar threads. Try a search and you should find many load options for the 7-08.

Brand S&B is Sellier & Bellot I believe.

If you want a larger set of mandrels for dealing with varyijng tempers of brass you may want to contact Porter's Precision Products, LLC for a set of mandrels. portersprecisionproducts.com.

Short anwswer: Most use about .002" less than the neck diameter of a loaded round.

Pudgy, What is the name of the bin holding system? Do you find you catch your clothing on it when no bins are attached? Pdd

Pudgy, What is the name of the track system on your bench? Do you like it? Pdd

MWUSA? search engine didn't find anything useful.