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Spitballing here but it’s hard to think of a sell by date for ammo when my friend, who is out to collect every gun from WW2 from every country involved that can legally be bought regularly buys and uses without issue 50+ year old surplus ammo. Well he did buy a box of 6.5 Jap that was straight...

I’m so glad I seem to be the only person I know that hasn’t let the smoke out of a rifle yet. I credit over caution but the man upstairs and Lady Luck might also be involved. Funny thing is I was at the range one day, using these rounds in my AR and I got a double feed that left one round curved...

I have the Wilson case gauges for 223, 308 & 6.5 CM as well as the Hornady bullet & head space comparator sets which I use regularly. I’ve always set up my dies to knock back the shoulder .004” for my AR platform rifles prior to second cleaning and brass prep. Because this is the first time I...

I tried the paper clip trick but couldn’t feel anything on the inside. Outside however as you can see has a noticeable ring/indentation. The second pic is what I would consider to be a good one.

I’d been wanting to learn hand loading for years and finally took the plunge about a year and a half ago. One thing always sticks out from years back was an old-timer told me while I was picking everyone’s brain was “not all brass is reloadable”. The more I mull this over and read everyone’s...

So until I can get home and look at this again I’m hypothesizing here but aside from this Win brass I don’t have this issue. I’ve got 300 rounds of milsurp brass that have 3+ firings out of the AR with 0 issues. I also have 100 rounds of Hornady factory ammo brass that was all fired through...

I’m going to dig one out of the trash to when I get home tonight but the rings I’m talking about are actually an indentation. The best way I can think to describe it is it’s as if I very lightly put the brass in a copper pipe cutter.

To answer your question I resize before trimming and I’ll take my rifle, hands and handsome face over a piece of questionable brass any day lol.

I usually try to bump back the casing about .004 but I mostly have reloaded for gas guns. I did a full length resize on this batch because they were out of two different rifles but had planned on neck sizing only this round until I found the rings. I didn’t take a photo of them before tossing...

Hello all. I cleaned up some Winchester .308 brass that was the result of a couple of cases of 180gr soft point I got a steal of a deal on a few years back. I burned them all off in either my AR-10 or my Ruger Precision Rifle and left the spent brass in a bucket for some time before I worked...

First, thanks all for replies. A lot of nays on the FCD outside of tube fed and 9mm. I’ll buy the crimps for 9mm and .44 mag/special and forget the others. Still however thinking about the feel of some over others. If a bullet takes a noticeable amount of pull more or less than others to...

Because acclimate weather has done muddied up my shooting spot I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on rounds I’ve made while waiting for everything to dry up. Other than a mishap with some .30-30’s I crushed in the press I really haven’t given much thought to the benefits of crimping. All my...

I enjoy the research too, I just want to start somewhere in the ball park to avoid damage to myself as well as my guns. I’ve purchased the Hornady #10, the new Lyman and I got a Speer #14 with my RC kit. I’ve noticed that all three books are somewhat at odds with each other. Without digging...

Ouch man, I’m truly sorry to hear that. We just had a gnarly fire about 3 hours north of me that completely wiped out a town. Seeing all those people that lost everything including their pets was just heart breaking.

Thanks everyone for telling me about the Zero 240’s. Those would put my total cost (excluding brass) < .24/rd for special and about .32/rd for mag...can’t beat that, especially for a .44 nowadays.

Yeah unfortunately I still fall victim to impulse purchases with the mindset I’ll figure it out when I get home. Honestly I wasn’t paying attention to anything but 240 grain and the price tag. I’ve only been handloading since late June and I have purchased Hornady bullets > 95% of the time...

I was picking up my rifle today and spotted these Berry’s .44 cal bullets at a great price (thinking cheap plinkers) so I bought them along with some starline 44 mag brass to load them in. Since I’ve got home and after I tore into the box I’ve found that I really didn’t want these after all as I...

So went to my supply place today and was really disappointed in the selection of .44 bullets. Really wanted to stay away from the FTX rounds due to the amount of trimming involved coupled with the “4th trip” through the die because the roll crimp doesn’t work with the shortened brass. I...

Hello all, I’m going through my 10 day “cooling off” period for the above mentioned brass framed rifle so I’d like to get going on some rounds to pass the time. Not planning on doing anything other than plinking between 50 and 200 yards and maybe occasionally trying to hit my steel sillouette...

Not trying to hijack the thread but may I ask what is the benefit of pushing a .45-70 that fast? Forgive my ignorance, I’m still relatively new to hand loading and I haven’t even fired what I’ve loaded for my 1895SBL yet. I loaded up 50 rounds of the Hornady 325gr FTX and 50 of the Hornady...