Recent content by Wolfman Bill

A question for the AR 223 shooters. I have a good & accurate load of 25 gr Varget under a 55gr FB bullet. Very happy with the groups & chamber/action staying clean. My problem is I just bought a couple of thousand Remington (bulk) 223/55gr (Wally World equivalent) for a very good...

Afternoon Beak50 I guess I can’t see the advantage in reversing the bullet on a full power load. About only thing I can think of is if shooting at sloped surfaces as maybe less glance off’s I have from time to time loaded boat tail bullets backwards to improve subsonic grouping at...

Afternoon hapidogbreath I shoot a lot of subsonic in my .223 AR. Haven’t tried the 62 gr but shoot a lot of 55 gr. As far as I can tell from talking with other sub sonic .223 shooters you are probably going to have to come with a load for your particular barrel and rifling twist. I...

Morning Blackops Lots of info & lots of opinions both here & on other web sites. As you say some do & some don’t, it seems either side usually has a valid reason for their reason or choice. I want though the same thing when I started reloading for my first AR only not nearly as much...

Afternoon RC Thanks for the response, that seems to go with what I observed when shooting the bullets in their smaller out of round state. I was getting a lead streaking on the front face of the cylinder, almost a rose petal like look to it. Now with the larger diameter perfectly round...

Here’s a follow up to up-sizing the 148 gr bullets. I decided to shoot the upsized .3605 bullets at that diameter just to see if further effort should be put into this. I shot a 10 round group at 25 yards using 3.5 gr TiteGroup & to my amazement it they all went into 4” group with no...

I just might be getting these turds polished up to a decent shine. I made up a die this morning that has a movable front end ram—first I slide a bullet in then slide in a 9mm transfer punch and rap it with a hammer. The sized bullet is then push using the front ram. I did 10 bullets in...

Well, as of today I just don’t know yet. I started with 3.5 gr TiteGroup & ended up at 4.4 gr (seemed pretty [email protected]) Shooting at 20 yards (on a rest) the 3.5 gr still had some fliers and some slight key holing. Went to 3.8 gr TiteGroup and the key holing seemed better but still nasty...

Evening ranger335v I have tried shooting them and at 15 yards & they seem to do “almost” OK but at 20 & 25 yards I get flyers and some start of key holing. I do plan to play with a bit more powder to see if I can get them to seal to the bore better. I have some Titegroup that should...

Calling all bullet casters out there. I got one heck of a deal on 10,000 148 grain LSWC, too good to pass up even if I have to melt them down and re-cast them. Problem is they are not exactly round and a bit small in diameter most mike .355 in one direction and .357 in the other (told you...

Morning Mike I took a 223 case to my local shooting supply store and tried all the funnels they had. None were a good fit on a resized 223 but the RCBS (green one) fit the best but just barely. It sits (j-u-s-t) on the resized 223 neck but wouldn’t stay in place by itself so I added a...

Evening EX Try it both ways, you’ll figure out which way YOU like best. Personally for me I use a mixture of coarse and fine tumbling media so on straight wall pistol cases I leave the primers in but on small neck rifle like 223 or 22-250 I de-prime first so I can use compressed air to blow...

Evening Rikman That might be on some but on my 2 AR’s I get very little primer denting when the round is stripped out of the magazine. Probably due to round slowing the bolt action slightly. When I get the biggest primer dent is either single loading and dropping the bolt with the hold...

Afternoon Rikman No I don’t but both my AR’s leave a small dent in the primer if I allow the bolt to slam shut on a round in the chamber. I use standard CCI small rifle and haven’t ever had a slam fire but those primer dents look like it might be possible (especially with a softer primer...

Morning MEHavey I do that with an old cut pillow case on my AR’s when bench shooting or standing at the range but it would be pain in action shooting events or combat simulations. I have enough JUNK hanging off my AR platforms now.