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Reloading
What are the easiest mistakes you learned the most from when reloading?
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<blockquote data-quote="wwalker" data-source="post: 1548686" data-attributes="member: 56984"><p>Keep your brass separated by rifle and mark the boxes for the particular rifle that it was fired from if you are not fully resizing the brass when you want the utmost accuracy. </p><p>Fire formed brass will be the most accurate. </p><p>If you mix up rounds loaded for one rifle with another it just might leave you scratching your head wondering what the hell just happened to that pinpoint accuracy you where expecting. </p><p> Been there done that and wondered what the hell happened to the accuracy of a half MOA rifle as it would not group during a tournament. Needless to say I did not even come close to the top contenders let alone my own expectations. </p><p>The hardest part about the lesson learned was finding out what the hell had happened. Thought about it all the way home and could not figure it out. </p><p>It was not until I got home and a few days was back at the bench and found out that I was putting the fired brass into the wrong boxes for the rifle. I had 3 different .308's two of which were almost twins but had different twist rates and liked different loads. I had grabbed the wrong empty boxes and brass was only trimmed to length and did not have a full length sizing. </p><p>Lesson learned. </p><p>Now I only put the fired brass back into the box that it came out of instead of having different boxes to put fired brass into. That way I do not get my loaded ammo mixed up between rifles. </p><p>Yes it can make that big of a difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wwalker, post: 1548686, member: 56984"] Keep your brass separated by rifle and mark the boxes for the particular rifle that it was fired from if you are not fully resizing the brass when you want the utmost accuracy. Fire formed brass will be the most accurate. If you mix up rounds loaded for one rifle with another it just might leave you scratching your head wondering what the hell just happened to that pinpoint accuracy you where expecting. Been there done that and wondered what the hell happened to the accuracy of a half MOA rifle as it would not group during a tournament. Needless to say I did not even come close to the top contenders let alone my own expectations. The hardest part about the lesson learned was finding out what the hell had happened. Thought about it all the way home and could not figure it out. It was not until I got home and a few days was back at the bench and found out that I was putting the fired brass into the wrong boxes for the rifle. I had 3 different .308’s two of which were almost twins but had different twist rates and liked different loads. I had grabbed the wrong empty boxes and brass was only trimmed to length and did not have a full length sizing. Lesson learned. Now I only put the fired brass back into the box that it came out of instead of having different boxes to put fired brass into. That way I do not get my loaded ammo mixed up between rifles. Yes it can make that big of a difference. [/QUOTE]
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