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Reloading
Reloading for accuracy (hunting only)
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<blockquote data-quote="g0rd0" data-source="post: 991756" data-attributes="member: 44168"><p>first, the powder charge. I weigh every charge. I set my measure .2grn low and trickle up</p><p>As for weighing bullets I weigh all cast bullets, but, when I open a new box of jacket bullets I weigh 5 if they come in at the same weight good, if not I weigh all of them noteing down the weights model of scale and lot number on the box then let the manufacturer know. (in almost 50 years of reloading this only happened once).</p><p> </p><p>Bullet comparitors, nice expensive tool but unless you are into long distance target shooting not needed. What I do with each lot number I take 1 and using a resized case lube the inside of the neck and chamber that 1 (as you chamber this dummy the rifle will seat the bullet on the groves) . You now know the max length for your rifle with that bullet load 5 (using sudgested start load of course) at 30"thou shorter, 5 at 25thou shorter, then 20thou, 15thou,10thou. Shoot them and you will have your best seat depth for that recipe, now tweek the charge for the best results. Hint once you know what your rifle likes take the dummy and seat the bullet to the favorite oal and keep it for setup reference until your supply of that lot number of bullets</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="g0rd0, post: 991756, member: 44168"] first, the powder charge. I weigh every charge. I set my measure .2grn low and trickle up As for weighing bullets I weigh all cast bullets, but, when I open a new box of jacket bullets I weigh 5 if they come in at the same weight good, if not I weigh all of them noteing down the weights model of scale and lot number on the box then let the manufacturer know. (in almost 50 years of reloading this only happened once). Bullet comparitors, nice expensive tool but unless you are into long distance target shooting not needed. What I do with each lot number I take 1 and using a resized case lube the inside of the neck and chamber that 1 (as you chamber this dummy the rifle will seat the bullet on the groves) . You now know the max length for your rifle with that bullet load 5 (using sudgested start load of course) at 30"thou shorter, 5 at 25thou shorter, then 20thou, 15thou,10thou. Shoot them and you will have your best seat depth for that recipe, now tweek the charge for the best results. Hint once you know what your rifle likes take the dummy and seat the bullet to the favorite oal and keep it for setup reference until your supply of that lot number of bullets [/QUOTE]
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