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Reloading
What Techniques Have You Picked Up Reloading That You Wished You Knew From The Start?
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<blockquote data-quote="Okanogan" data-source="post: 1869534" data-attributes="member: 90397"><p>My suggestion is to start by deciding why you are reloading and what you hope to accomplish by doing so. There is a big difference between wanting to save money with high volume plinker or short range hunting/ self defense ammo than wanting to load premium precision ammunition for long range target or hunting. </p><p>I'm making the assumptio that the thread is focused toward the precision ammunition objective which is also where most of my interests have gravitated. For this type of reloading my suggestion would be to get some high quality tools to help in measuring and controlling your reloading efforts. A good chrono graph (Lab radar/ Magnetospeed) was a turning point in my efforts. High quality mics and tools to measure set back, CTBO length, and concentricity also are invaluable to my efforts.</p><p>While reloading manuals are a good reference, they don't tell me how well a particular load will shoot in my rifles. My experience has been that overall length/ jump to the lands for a particular bullet often plays a significant part in the accuracy of my loads. Setting up a reference round for each rifle/ bullet combination and working from that reference when doing load development has helped me. </p><p>Objective field testing of my loads and useable record keeping have been important to be able to sort out what is working and what doesn't seem to produce measurable positive results. </p><p>Finally. in the past I all too often loaded up significant quantities of ammunition without fully completing load development process, only to find out later that I could produce far better results with some other combination. I don't like burning out rifle barrels or breaking down loaded ammo for components so I try much harder these days to confirm I am fully satisfied with a load's performance before cranking out anything in quantity. (This step seems obvious but I have made the same mistake way too often in the past)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Okanogan, post: 1869534, member: 90397"] My suggestion is to start by deciding why you are reloading and what you hope to accomplish by doing so. There is a big difference between wanting to save money with high volume plinker or short range hunting/ self defense ammo than wanting to load premium precision ammunition for long range target or hunting. I'm making the assumptio that the thread is focused toward the precision ammunition objective which is also where most of my interests have gravitated. For this type of reloading my suggestion would be to get some high quality tools to help in measuring and controlling your reloading efforts. A good chrono graph (Lab radar/ Magnetospeed) was a turning point in my efforts. High quality mics and tools to measure set back, CTBO length, and concentricity also are invaluable to my efforts. While reloading manuals are a good reference, they don't tell me how well a particular load will shoot in my rifles. My experience has been that overall length/ jump to the lands for a particular bullet often plays a significant part in the accuracy of my loads. Setting up a reference round for each rifle/ bullet combination and working from that reference when doing load development has helped me. Objective field testing of my loads and useable record keeping have been important to be able to sort out what is working and what doesn't seem to produce measurable positive results. Finally. in the past I all too often loaded up significant quantities of ammunition without fully completing load development process, only to find out later that I could produce far better results with some other combination. I don't like burning out rifle barrels or breaking down loaded ammo for components so I try much harder these days to confirm I am fully satisfied with a load's performance before cranking out anything in quantity. (This step seems obvious but I have made the same mistake way too often in the past) [/QUOTE]
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