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<blockquote data-quote="a_savage02" data-source="post: 2409555" data-attributes="member: 121357"><p>My process is both 6mm and 6.5mm I started with new brass. 6.5 I started with hornady brass half new and half factory ammo I shot and used. All brass has been fired 2x and is on it's third firing. I start with dry tumbling to clean cases. I lube each case with either hornady one shot or I have some wax I have tried also. I full length resize bumping the shoulder back .002 and all my dies I removed the expander ball and use the Sinclair expander mandrel for the appropriate caliber it gives me between .001-.002 neck tension. I then check overall length off brass trim if needed per hornady reloading manual. Clean primer pockets. Then seat primers with frankford arsenal hand primer. I measure powder with the frankford arsenal gen6 powder dispenser. I get it close and then hand trickle to appropriate charge weight cause it over throws charges a lot. And I have checked the scale with others and it's pretty accurate. And then seat bullets anywhere between .015-.02 off the lands. And that's pretty much the same process I use for all calibers. And as far as non lead bullets most of what I'm reloading for is just target shooting so I'm using less bullets I do have one 30-06 I will eventually load develop for that will just be for hunting but non lead bullets are more expensive so I'm trying to fine tune my process first before load develop for that. The 6.5 I have tried 130 Nosler RDF and 140 grain Barnes match burners. And I have tried imr 4350 and just recently switched to Winchester Staball 6.5. The 6mm I use starline SRP new brass Berger 95 gr vld hunter with staball 6.5 also. The 30-06 I was able to get decent results with I have used random military surplus brass that all has the same head stamp. Am currently using Speer gold dot 168 gr match BTHP and Nosler custom comp 175 gr. And VV N-160 has give on me good results with almost compressed loads. At around 2900 FPS SD of 13 and ES of around 30. I also just started annealing my brass with a torch method and the Tempilaq 750 degree paint to check for temperature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="a_savage02, post: 2409555, member: 121357"] My process is both 6mm and 6.5mm I started with new brass. 6.5 I started with hornady brass half new and half factory ammo I shot and used. All brass has been fired 2x and is on it’s third firing. I start with dry tumbling to clean cases. I lube each case with either hornady one shot or I have some wax I have tried also. I full length resize bumping the shoulder back .002 and all my dies I removed the expander ball and use the Sinclair expander mandrel for the appropriate caliber it gives me between .001-.002 neck tension. I then check overall length off brass trim if needed per hornady reloading manual. Clean primer pockets. Then seat primers with frankford arsenal hand primer. I measure powder with the frankford arsenal gen6 powder dispenser. I get it close and then hand trickle to appropriate charge weight cause it over throws charges a lot. And I have checked the scale with others and it’s pretty accurate. And then seat bullets anywhere between .015-.02 off the lands. And that’s pretty much the same process I use for all calibers. And as far as non lead bullets most of what I’m reloading for is just target shooting so I’m using less bullets I do have one 30-06 I will eventually load develop for that will just be for hunting but non lead bullets are more expensive so I’m trying to fine tune my process first before load develop for that. The 6.5 I have tried 130 Nosler RDF and 140 grain Barnes match burners. And I have tried imr 4350 and just recently switched to Winchester Staball 6.5. The 6mm I use starline SRP new brass Berger 95 gr vld hunter with staball 6.5 also. The 30-06 I was able to get decent results with I have used random military surplus brass that all has the same head stamp. Am currently using Speer gold dot 168 gr match BTHP and Nosler custom comp 175 gr. And VV N-160 has give on me good results with almost compressed loads. At around 2900 FPS SD of 13 and ES of around 30. I also just started annealing my brass with a torch method and the Tempilaq 750 degree paint to check for temperature. [/QUOTE]
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