sirgilligan
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I just finished charging for the first time and seating the bullets.
Everything went very well. I was a little concerned that the RCBS beam scale doesn't have a weight to verify it, so I used a few bullets and most of the bullets weighed almost exactly 55 grains, so that gave me some confidence.
I loaded .223 REM using Hodgdon H335 and Hornady 55 gr FMJ-BT bullets. Brass is once fired PMC and primers are Federal Small Rifle.
Everything went well.
Cleaning the powder trickler, I took the tube off and tapped it on the table after I thought it was clean and a bunch came out, so note to self always take the tube off and tap it.
I loaded 15 cartridges, three lots of five each.
Lot 1 - 21.5 grains of powder
Lot 2 - 22.0 grains of powder
Lot 3 - 22.5 grains of powder
The test rifle is a CZ 527 Varmint with 1:9 twist with a 5.56 chamber.
I will be well in the safety zone because I used .223 load data.
Overall length is 2.20".
I weighed each round afterwards just because I am a little nervous. I had weighed a few cases and bullets previously and there was about 100th of grain variation in the small sample of bullets, but a couple of grains variation in the case weight. All loaded cartridges fell within these variations so I feel good about that.
Hopefully I can go to the range in a week or two but this is getting to be a busy time for me and it might be a while before I shoot them.
I labeled each with a Sharpie marker and wrote everything down in a note book. Once I get reloading figured out I am going to have to write the best reloading app ever for iOS and Mac OS.
Everything went very well. I was a little concerned that the RCBS beam scale doesn't have a weight to verify it, so I used a few bullets and most of the bullets weighed almost exactly 55 grains, so that gave me some confidence.
I loaded .223 REM using Hodgdon H335 and Hornady 55 gr FMJ-BT bullets. Brass is once fired PMC and primers are Federal Small Rifle.
Everything went well.
Cleaning the powder trickler, I took the tube off and tapped it on the table after I thought it was clean and a bunch came out, so note to self always take the tube off and tap it.
I loaded 15 cartridges, three lots of five each.
Lot 1 - 21.5 grains of powder
Lot 2 - 22.0 grains of powder
Lot 3 - 22.5 grains of powder
The test rifle is a CZ 527 Varmint with 1:9 twist with a 5.56 chamber.
I will be well in the safety zone because I used .223 load data.
Overall length is 2.20".
I weighed each round afterwards just because I am a little nervous. I had weighed a few cases and bullets previously and there was about 100th of grain variation in the small sample of bullets, but a couple of grains variation in the case weight. All loaded cartridges fell within these variations so I feel good about that.
Hopefully I can go to the range in a week or two but this is getting to be a busy time for me and it might be a while before I shoot them.
I labeled each with a Sharpie marker and wrote everything down in a note book. Once I get reloading figured out I am going to have to write the best reloading app ever for iOS and Mac OS.
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