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Do I really need a Labradar?
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<blockquote data-quote="Murtfree" data-source="post: 2754156" data-attributes="member: 111090"><p>I've been using an Oehler 33 for 40 years and never develop loads without it. I know many say its too complicated to set up but I can have it assembled and lined up in 5 minutes, but maybe thats because I've been doing it so long. Group size it only half the tale of the load I'm working on; velocity, SD and ES tell the rest of the story. I have stacks of note books filled with priceless data for different loads on different cartridges and rifles from those 40 years of using it. The 15 years I was handloading before I had it I was very much in the dark. It's especially useful when working on wildcats and newer cartridges with limited loading data.; "Quickload" and the Oehler are indispensable. Quirky things sometimes happen with a load and the data soon unravels the problem. I have a 6.5 RPM that doesn't seem to like Retumbo and showed extreme pressure signs. I usually start 2 grains below max to save time and reloading components and this method has always served me well. With Retumbo in the 6.5 RPM I had very heavy bolt lift and when checking the Oehler I was 200FPS over were I should be. Minimum charge in the data I was using turned out to be almost maximum in this case. Could I have figured this out from just the pressure signs? Yes, but the Oehler confirmed the problem without a doubt and "quantified" the issue. I often shoot a few test loads with different powders and bullets just to get preliminary data to give me a direction on where to "go" with my loads. Today, as soon as the fog lifts, I'll be shooting and chronographing loads I loaded yesterday for 6mmARC, 6.5-300 and 6.5 RPM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murtfree, post: 2754156, member: 111090"] I’ve been using an Oehler 33 for 40 years and never develop loads without it. I know many say its too complicated to set up but I can have it assembled and lined up in 5 minutes, but maybe thats because I’ve been doing it so long. Group size it only half the tale of the load I’m working on; velocity, SD and ES tell the rest of the story. I have stacks of note books filled with priceless data for different loads on different cartridges and rifles from those 40 years of using it. The 15 years I was handloading before I had it I was very much in the dark. It’s especially useful when working on wildcats and newer cartridges with limited loading data.; “Quickload” and the Oehler are indispensable. Quirky things sometimes happen with a load and the data soon unravels the problem. I have a 6.5 RPM that doesn’t seem to like Retumbo and showed extreme pressure signs. I usually start 2 grains below max to save time and reloading components and this method has always served me well. With Retumbo in the 6.5 RPM I had very heavy bolt lift and when checking the Oehler I was 200FPS over were I should be. Minimum charge in the data I was using turned out to be almost maximum in this case. Could I have figured this out from just the pressure signs? Yes, but the Oehler confirmed the problem without a doubt and “quantified” the issue. I often shoot a few test loads with different powders and bullets just to get preliminary data to give me a direction on where to “go” with my loads. Today, as soon as the fog lifts, I’ll be shooting and chronographing loads I loaded yesterday for 6mmARC, 6.5-300 and 6.5 RPM [/QUOTE]
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