Mark_Mark
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lol!!!! that gave me a chuckleCan't find anything for twenty foot barrels......
Memorial day reloading...
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I knew what you meant, just couldn't resist...
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LonewolfMcquade
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I have almost everything I need to reload a few hundred of each rifle round. 270WSM, 25-06, 25WSSM & 308. Only thing I'm missing: ambition pills & patience! I'd much rather be shooting. Even as I near the age of 50, I'm too damn antsy to sit down & get'er done.......I need help....
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GeoDudeFlorida
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Finished up loading a box of 50 .380's before dinner. New brass ("P-1" HS) with CCI 500 SPP, Hornady 100gr. FMJ over 2.3gr. of IMR Hi-Skor 700-X, seated to a COAL of 0.965"
Hodgdon says to use a COAL of 0.980" w/2.7gr of 700-X, no starting load data, but that won't plunk in my wife's CZ-82 so I backed off to 1.9gr and worked back up to 2.3gr. for the deeper seat. Seems to work fine in all of our .380's and velocity is the same as "book" at right around 850fps in the CZ and Walthers.
Hodgdon says to use a COAL of 0.980" w/2.7gr of 700-X, no starting load data, but that won't plunk in my wife's CZ-82 so I backed off to 1.9gr and worked back up to 2.3gr. for the deeper seat. Seems to work fine in all of our .380's and velocity is the same as "book" at right around 850fps in the CZ and Walthers.
Mark_Mark
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do it a few times and it like eating watermelon… good and easyI have almost everything I need to reload a few hundred of each rifle round. 270WSM, 25-06, 25WSSM & 308. Only thing I'm missing: ambition pills & patience! I'd much rather be shooting. Even as I near the age of 50, I'm too damn antsy to sit down & get'er done.......I need help
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So got to the range with some 225gr LFP over 6.1gr of Herco. The stuff I shot is approximately 33 years old. However it's been stored in its original container in a room that averages between 45 and 65 degrees year round, and looked/smelled completely normal. One gun was a gen 1 M&P .45, 4.5" bbl. The other was a Ruger 1911CMD 4.25" bbl.
One anomaly I experienced was velocity of the first shot from a clean bore was very low compared to the remainder of the 7 shot string. I can only guess a clean bore provides less resistance and less opportunity for gas pressure to build behind the bullet (if not that, I'm not sure). After that fouling shot, velocities settled into a nice, stable pattern.
Herco is rated as a somewhat slow-ish powder, a little slower than Unique per research. Alliant uses a max load of 6.4gr under a 230gr LRN, but no starting load, so I settled for 6.1gr under the 225gr LFP I was using.
My Ruger 1911CMD averaged 813 fps, SD 27. High - 857, Low - 779 (first shot).
S&W M&P 1.0 averaged 829 fps, SD 23. High - 869, Low - 788 (first shot).
Recoil and ejection pattern felt like any other standard pressure service load, believe I'll leave it that for the remainder of this can. Hope everyone that wants to has a chance to get some lead downrange this fine day.
One anomaly I experienced was velocity of the first shot from a clean bore was very low compared to the remainder of the 7 shot string. I can only guess a clean bore provides less resistance and less opportunity for gas pressure to build behind the bullet (if not that, I'm not sure). After that fouling shot, velocities settled into a nice, stable pattern.
Herco is rated as a somewhat slow-ish powder, a little slower than Unique per research. Alliant uses a max load of 6.4gr under a 230gr LRN, but no starting load, so I settled for 6.1gr under the 225gr LFP I was using.
My Ruger 1911CMD averaged 813 fps, SD 27. High - 857, Low - 779 (first shot).
S&W M&P 1.0 averaged 829 fps, SD 23. High - 869, Low - 788 (first shot).
Recoil and ejection pattern felt like any other standard pressure service load, believe I'll leave it that for the remainder of this can. Hope everyone that wants to has a chance to get some lead downrange this fine day.
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Loaded up 100 357 Mag with CCI500 SPP, 2400, Hornady 158gr XTP and new Starline brass
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