Jesus. That’s nuts. You’ve gone all out on reloading now. Love it.
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What did you do in the reloading room recently?
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Nice when it comes together
Started loading some .45 acp (200 rds.) and 9mm (400 rds so far) for Christmas gifts for my SIL. Other than me, he is the only person that shoots my reloads.
YOUR FAULT!! Kidding, but you're spot on - I'm DEEP in the sickness now.
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Mudflap621
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Those look sexy, I love me some 30s. What they running for speed?
Avg of 2980 fps. Very efficient cartridge. ES of 19.
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My range session wasn't as successful. I was only a able to run 10 rounds through the 6bra. Noticed quite a bit of wear on the casehead, ejector mark and swipes. Out of 10 shots the speed was mild with an average of 2756 with a SD of 10 and ES of 29 but the marks had me uncomfortable so decided to put her away and look everything over at home. After checking all measurements and headspace I disassemble the bolt to my surprise there was a pretty substantial bur around the ejector opening. I massaged it out and hopefully these marks will not be present on my next fireforming session.
We also started a baseline test for barrel break-in on my fathers new TL3 6.5 creed. His group shows a lot of promise for this rifle, 10 shot group sticker is .75" Peterson brass, Hornady 140 hpbt with h4350.
We also started a baseline test for barrel break-in on my fathers new TL3 6.5 creed. His group shows a lot of promise for this rifle, 10 shot group sticker is .75" Peterson brass, Hornady 140 hpbt with h4350.
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Wow that thing is cruising! What are the rifle specs and barrel length? I'm hoping to run somewhere around 2900-2925 fps with a 105 hybrid out of a 26" tube.
Stolle-Panda action, 24" 1:17 twist Hart max heavy varmint barrel. McMillan benchrest stock, Jewel trigger set at 2 ounces.
Tallahassee
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I like a little surprise with a light trigger, but that's light. Bench gun I assume?
Yup. Short range benchrest heavy varmint configuration.
Surprise is one thing, trigger shocked the heck out of me the first couple of times.
Love it now.
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2 ounce trigger sounds like a fun time for sure!
Isn't it great?YOUR FAULT!! Kidding, but you're spot on - I'm DEEP in the sickness now.
It is. I have a rifle with a 3oz, you can blow air at it and it shoots. Lol.
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Made some 462-420 with penta pins and some 359-640 with flat points.
Tallahassee
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Learn something new every day. Never in a million years would I have had a trigger below 1.5-2 pounds, now I want to build a bench gun.
You have to be super careful with the light triggers, specially if shooting during winter and wearing heavy/thick gloves.
After you try the #1.5 diamond triggertech you will never want anything else.
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They are nice. Ive got a couple of the 2-stage im playing with.
If you find your way in toward Southborough Rod and Gun, drop me a line. Happy to have you try it. I'll bring ammo (grin).
I have the KIDD single stage trigger in my bull barrel 10/22 setup which is 1.5lb. I thought that was light 
. But 3oz dang.
. But 3oz dang.The KIDD can be set up for 3oz. Depending which one you have.I have the KIDD single stage trigger in my bull barrel 10/22 setup which is 1.5lb. I thought that was light
Yup. That’s the two stage trigger.
Really? I have a what appears to be a early KIDD single stage at just under 1lb I really like it. Im not so sure anything lighter would benefit the type of shooting I do with my 10/22, prone , moving about and such
Yeah, 3oz is very light.
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the Kidd 2 stage 8 ounce total trigger is for bench only they say, but I have used it for a couple positional matches when I did not have a bolt 22. It's fine if you are careful and use the safety before moving. It is a fantastic trigger and they say to not adjust it at all.
So, I finished my loads for a next test, got now in my hands shippings of both varget and shooting world precision rifle.
The latter does not have silvery color of varget nor its smell - color is rather dark and a 24.8gn measure setting for varget seemingly produced 24.4gn load of precision rifle.
Sticks are slightly smaller than vargets’, so it may be less compressed in any 24.5+ loads compared to varget, but, will see. I ran out of prepped primered brass, so will do a comparison test next time.
The latter does not have silvery color of varget nor its smell - color is rather dark and a 24.8gn measure setting for varget seemingly produced 24.4gn load of precision rifle.
Sticks are slightly smaller than vargets’, so it may be less compressed in any 24.5+ loads compared to varget, but, will see. I ran out of prepped primered brass, so will do a comparison test next time.
Cortina just had an interesting video about primer depth seating including discussions about why he doesn't clean or touch primer pockets at all.
After reading your post Im almost inspired to slap the Short Thick Slab AR back together and load up some 80gn Noslers with what I have left of varget. See what they do at 200
My last go around with these I found my best accuracy was in the mid range of powder charges except H4895 that liked the hotter end. IIRC the sweet spot was around 2500-2575 fps on the other powders I tried.
I will probably just do 22, 22.5 , 23, 23.5 on what I have left of varget and load a few with whats left in my measure for H4895.
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