It is actually quite surprising how much it can compress.
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It is actually quite surprising how much it can compress.
I am still afraid of smokless compressed loads.
The only powder I compress is BP.
nstassel
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andrew1220
LOL. Ruh roh
Little did I know that I could do this 100 at a time. Seems like the price isn't too bad either for a blem one.
nstassel
NES Member
they are great time savers $99 from dawson with free shipping
I guess I'm lazy. I just use a 100 round plastic ammo box lol. Doesn't chamber check them of course.
allen-1
NES Member
Chamber checking & primer checking in one place. Plus you can run your finger over the bases and feel for high primers, or hold it up and sight across it. Found a few that way.
Leezway
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Bring them to the next RGNB Steel match I’ll shoot them for you!@Michael J. Spangler I loaded 32 rounds of. 460 with 43.5 grains of IMR 4227 ... the case is almost full, there was barely any space to seat the bullet without compression.
230grain FMJ bullets from RMR.
I am scared to shoot them now.
Max load is 47 grains, compressed. WTF.
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38ExtraSpecial
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We’ll I would be scared to shoot your reloads too.@Michael J. Spangler I loaded 32 rounds of. 460 with 43.5 grains of IMR 4227 ... the case is almost full, there was barely any space to seat the bullet without compression.
230grain FMJ bullets from RMR.
I am scared to shoot them now.
Max load is 47 grains, compressed. WTF.
Tallahassee
NES Member
When you hear the kernels crunching as you are seating the bullet, you know you're loading things right.@Michael J. Spangler I loaded 32 rounds of. 460 with 43.5 grains of IMR 4227 ... the case is almost full, there was barely any space to seat the bullet without compression.
230grain FMJ bullets from RMR.
I am scared to shoot them now.
Max load is 47 grains, compressed. WTF.
Zero has their 38 cal 158 gr JHPs back in stock for anyone interested. Haven’t seen them in stock in over 2 years.
BarnBuilder
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38ExtraSpecial
NES Member
I swear the 35 rem kicks more than the 45-70Worked up a Load for my Marlin 336 in 35 Rem Micro Groove Barrel Manuf. 1961-62
This rifle is great fun to shoot. It goes THUMP Just makes you want to smile
200 Gr Rem JSP
CCI 200
36 Gr. IMR 4064
Col. 2.540
Chrono 1860 Avg. Vel.
1540 Ft Lb Calc.
Made 100 rounds of cast 240 grain swc with 11 grains unique......I've found its a fun load to shoot and accurate enough to ring plates up to 50 yards. Then I sat down to clean the 629 revolver......cast bullets and unique make quite a dirty pistol. Ide say I've put 150 rounds of this load through it since the last cleaning.......found some shiny slivers if lead on the patches this time so I'm getting a little leading. Seemed to clean up with 4 sessions of Reaming with the brass brush and then a patch and jag till I didn't see any more slivers of lead. Is this just something to deal with when it comes to cast in 44 mag or should I be adjusting the load?
Going to watch a movie and reload some 9mm tomorrow for Father's day.
The .35 Remington is a hoot. I have plenty of fun swinging steel with a 158g FMJRN with about 12g of MP35. The Lyman 200g cast bullet also works.Worked up a Load for my Marlin 336 in 35 Rem Micro Groove Barrel Manuf. 1961-62
This rifle is great fun to shoot. It goes THUMP Just makes you want to smile
200 Gr Rem JSP
CCI 200
36 Gr. IMR 4064
Col. 2.540
Chrono 1860 Avg. Vel.
1540 Ft Lb Calc.
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Pulled and reloaded a box of Federal 7mm as planned. 5 steps, all "light" for 7mm Rem mag, topping off just above 50K PSI. I started noticing that I was screwing up the soft points with my kinetic puller. Put some foam in there belatedly, but I decided just to remove the soft points and sort the bullets. Instead of 150ish grain, they are all in the 146.3-147.5 grain range, all groups of 4 within a few tenths of a grain of one another.
The family got me a chronograph for Father's day. Just got home from testing all kinds of reloads. Learned alot.
1. My consistency is pretty good. Most of my loads have a deviation of 50fps or less.
2. I can bump up my 230 grain plated woth 6.3 grains cfe 45acp reloads a bit. Those are coming in at 765 fps average.
3. The ruger carbine is a God damned beast with 180 grain projos.....both factory and h110 reloads are coming in well over 2000fps. My reloads are 2100 and factory is 2165. Almost 1800 foot pound of muzzle energy. Through the 4 inch model 629 revolver I'm getting 1467 fps put of those loads.
4. I was a little disappointed in the inr4227 with 265 grain jsp velocity. That load is accurate as shit but I thought I'd be at 1600 or 1700 fps but it's clocking at 1374 so a little low. I will Bump that up and retest accuracy and velocity but I doubt I'll get the same muzzle every as the 180 grain loads.
Interesting stuff.
1. My consistency is pretty good. Most of my loads have a deviation of 50fps or less.
2. I can bump up my 230 grain plated woth 6.3 grains cfe 45acp reloads a bit. Those are coming in at 765 fps average.
3. The ruger carbine is a God damned beast with 180 grain projos.....both factory and h110 reloads are coming in well over 2000fps. My reloads are 2100 and factory is 2165. Almost 1800 foot pound of muzzle energy. Through the 4 inch model 629 revolver I'm getting 1467 fps put of those loads.
4. I was a little disappointed in the inr4227 with 265 grain jsp velocity. That load is accurate as shit but I thought I'd be at 1600 or 1700 fps but it's clocking at 1374 so a little low. I will Bump that up and retest accuracy and velocity but I doubt I'll get the same muzzle every as the 180 grain loads.
Interesting stuff.
what if you have like 3 that don’t fit? Do you pull those out and keep going? I have a 7 round EGW version, and I can almost never get all 7 to fit. Then I have to take them out without dislodging the ones that do. Most of the ones that don’t fit the EGW do fit the lewis case gauge.
What are you reloading with IMR4227?
pastera
NES Member
Loaded up 50 rounds of 300AAC with 11FS to try it out - those 155s look pretty nasty and the ogive doesn't allow them to gauge in a 223 check.
Thought that I had gauged all of the brass after conversion but 6 bad ones slipped through - carefully recovered those primers.
Thought that I had gauged all of the brass after conversion but 6 bad ones slipped through - carefully recovered those primers.
44 mag for a ruger carbine. 265 grain jsp with 21 grains imr4227. Amazing accuracy in the ruger carbine can cloverleaf 3 rounds at 50 yards. I'd like to see that velocity a bit higher though.
Deer gun. Would like to see 1600 or 1700 feet per second to get the muzzle energy closer to or higher than what I get from my 50 cal muzzle loader (250 grain projo at 1600). Guess I'm using the muzzle loader energy as a bench mark.
pastera
NES Member
What shell holders do you need?
