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Reloading
load work up on virgin brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1777683" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>It's not that the first loading doesn't tell you anything. It's that it often tells you something slightly different than what you'll see after one or two firings. In my experience new brass is more consistent unless your brass prep routine is far more extreme than mine. I don't see enough difference to care about it in what I'm doing which is mostly competitive shooting and screwing around and I don't have the barrel life to spend doing full power fire forming. When I get a new barrel cut, I get all the brass, bullets, powder and primers that I expect it to live through at the same time. I therefore almost always develop my loads on new brass and shoot the new brass till they've all been shot. On second loading, I'll check velocities and zero for the inevitable tiny change and then I'll repeat those checks every ~500 rounds or so. When I run out of components it's time to pull the barrel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1777683, member: 96226"] It's not that the first loading doesn't tell you anything. It's that it often tells you something slightly different than what you'll see after one or two firings. In my experience new brass is more consistent unless your brass prep routine is far more extreme than mine. I don't see enough difference to care about it in what I'm doing which is mostly competitive shooting and screwing around and I don't have the barrel life to spend doing full power fire forming. When I get a new barrel cut, I get all the brass, bullets, powder and primers that I expect it to live through at the same time. I therefore almost always develop my loads on new brass and shoot the new brass till they've all been shot. On second loading, I'll check velocities and zero for the inevitable tiny change and then I'll repeat those checks every ~500 rounds or so. When I run out of components it's time to pull the barrel. [/QUOTE]
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