I pull the bullets and punch out the primer after clearing the immediate area of anything that might get excited. Wear eye pro for both pulling (I’ve shattered a kinetic pulled before) and depriming.
Most recently I buckled about 6 in a row at the shoulder. I don’t have my notes handy, but I want to say I’d expanded some 6mm Rem, annealed, then crunched them trying to FL resize at 257AI.
I’ve also buckled cases seating cannelure bullets.
Not fun with 257 Rob because getting cases ready is...
It’s a patchwork of different types of parcels and the rules vary depending on where you’re at. Designated sites only in some places. Other places you can setup wherever as long as it’s 150ft off the water or trail.
But in general, the only places which need reservations are car camping...
Seating to the cannelure is fine, but probably not optimal for accuracy. That said, a cannelure is usually an indicator that the bullet design has sacrificed accuracy for reliability. That’s not to say they cant shoot surprisingly well. Some do and some are just dogs. My impression is that...
It’s a fodder bullet that goes into a box from a number of different sets of tooling. What you’re getting sounds about right. Even match bullets will have a good amount of variation and those should at least come off one set of tooling.
Check your gear and move on. The seating die shouldn’t...
I've used it a fair amount. I like it. Matches up pretty well with chronograph data. Make sure you measure case volume and case length for your brass if you plan on using it up near the top end of things.
I've done a little tinkering with Optimum Barrel Time using Q/L (google it). So far...
I've chased misfires in 2 rifles recently. One was related to headspace (which doesn't look like a problem in your case since everything is flush and isn't backing out). The other one was firing pin spring. It was over a half inch shorter than it should have been.
But tear it down and clean...
Trigger and bolt are probably really gummy too if the bolt release is. Got a 722 last year that was that way. Flushing the receiver with lighter fluid worked pretty well.
No doubt the WD-40 has completed its conversion into varnish.
Base-to-Ogive? The comparators that we can use for handloading are not all that valuable for absolute measurements--the point of the comparator is to be able to compare one to the next and judge whether they're close to the same. The seating die should be putting the ogives at pretty much the...
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