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<blockquote data-quote="budlight" data-source="post: 2510193" data-attributes="member: 2939"><p>Depends on where you live. I bought mine used in @ 1990. It already had a 28 inch barrel and two inch brake making it 30 inches long. It came with a set of Redding dies.... Back then the local sporting shops had bags of 50 new cases for $45 bucks and later on then went up to $55. So I bought a couple hundred.</p><p></p><p>back then powder types were limited and Retumbo then H870 was about the slowest unless you bought 50 BMG. I found reloading info and settled in on 200 and 210 grain SPBT type bullets available then.</p><p></p><p>I've owned wildcat magnum rounds with NO data and figured it out on my own using burn rate charts and cases close in capacity. Example is going to case that can hold 10 more grains. You can start with about 4-5 grains over the parent case and incrementally work up till you see pressure. Not a big deal. sometimes lots of bullet pulling</p><p></p><p>Sometime back then US869 showed up. I jumped on that and started testing with a chrono at the range. More high BC hunting and paper bullets were showing up and my barrel was gone somewhere under 600 rounds so I bought a 30 inch barrel with I think a 9 twist so I could shoot the new 220 and even 240 grain. 210 220 hunting rounds are just most excellent.</p><p></p><p>My advice is to quit looking at books and just go to something like Hodgdon reloading online. Or nosler barnes online. Just get away from bragging rights 180 grain with retumbo. move up in bullet weight and go with us869</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="budlight, post: 2510193, member: 2939"] Depends on where you live. I bought mine used in @ 1990. It already had a 28 inch barrel and two inch brake making it 30 inches long. It came with a set of Redding dies.... Back then the local sporting shops had bags of 50 new cases for $45 bucks and later on then went up to $55. So I bought a couple hundred. back then powder types were limited and Retumbo then H870 was about the slowest unless you bought 50 BMG. I found reloading info and settled in on 200 and 210 grain SPBT type bullets available then. I've owned wildcat magnum rounds with NO data and figured it out on my own using burn rate charts and cases close in capacity. Example is going to case that can hold 10 more grains. You can start with about 4-5 grains over the parent case and incrementally work up till you see pressure. Not a big deal. sometimes lots of bullet pulling Sometime back then US869 showed up. I jumped on that and started testing with a chrono at the range. More high BC hunting and paper bullets were showing up and my barrel was gone somewhere under 600 rounds so I bought a 30 inch barrel with I think a 9 twist so I could shoot the new 220 and even 240 grain. 210 220 hunting rounds are just most excellent. My advice is to quit looking at books and just go to something like Hodgdon reloading online. Or nosler barnes online. Just get away from bragging rights 180 grain with retumbo. move up in bullet weight and go with us869 [/QUOTE]
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