Recent content by bengals1975

I have some BVAC .223. It shoots great but like already mentioned, it's pretty dirty. My rifle is a mess afterwards.

Well, I finally got out to shoot a new batch of reloads after following the advice in this thread. I found some HS-6 and loaded with that following the data from Hodgdon's website along with the data in the Lee Modern Reloading manual. Everything went awesome! better than awesome actually...

Seated to the cannelure, OAL ended up at 1.345". Works great! Thanks for all the help and information guys!

I wasn't trying to insult anyone! I don't know what the OAL is for this bullet when seated to the cannelure since my friend hasn't pushed one in that far yet. so I just threw a fictional number out there for the sake of discussion to try to understand the concept mentioned. I'm just trying to...

Awesome guys! thanks for all the help! He sent a message to Berry's today, we're pretty confident on the OAL now though with your help, and plan to seat to the cannelure. Just checking w/ Berry's to see what they say. This really helped, gonna pay attention to not over crimp, I don't think...

A friend of mine is trying to load .38 special with IMR 700X and Berry's 125 gn hard cast RNFP bullets (picture attached). Dropping the bullets into the cylinder he's noticed that some of his rounds will drop in just fine, others don't (he's also noticed that the same bullet will drop fine in...

Haha, no sweat. I figured it out :-) it really helps to see how more experienced loaders approach building a new load. I'm looking forward to trying out my new loads. I'll post back how it all works out.

I have the adjustable charge bar for the autodisk so I'm able to make small tweaks. I'll probably try to go both directions. Shorten my OAL with current powder load as well as lengthen OAL and increase powder and see what works best. Hoping to find a little time this weekend to load, the wife...

Thanks for walking through that for me bds. I had to read it a couple times to fully digest it all :-) It was very helpful though.

Thanks GS, I'm going to look for those powders. I will probably make a stronger load of unique as well. One of the reasons I started loading my own ammo in the first place was to try different bullets/powders/etc so this is perfect. This is a great learning experience and I'm loving it! I hear...

Playing devil's advocate for a minute to hopefully learn something... Looking at other data on Hodgdon's website, I found a relative burn rate chart. It looks like Unique has a faster burn rate than either HS-6 or Longshot. In my head I was correlating faster burn rate to higher pressure...

Got it. Thanks! .

I weighed them. The Lee charts were pretty bad compared to what the weights actually turned out to be. Thank goodness for a scale :) Sounds like the consensus is too light of a charge. Since I'm a little nervous to disregard the manual and exceed it's recommended max load (especially this...

I've spent some time working up a load for my 9mm and I thought I found one that works pretty good. It worked great on an 8 round test run so I made another 70 and went out to shoot them this weekend (I wanted to test a greater number before I went ahead and loaded the remainder of the 500...

I have the same smart reloader scale and the same problem with it. What a piece of junk eh? Glad you asked this question as I'm trying to figure out what scale I want to buy to replace this thing.