Ignition Override
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This scale has only weighed 38 grains of (4064) powder for .303.
I've done no other reloading, and began just over a year ago. It has been a very strict, mechanical routine, and always being alone at this, have learned nothing else about reloading.
Having just received 1,500 x54R bullets of three different weights (?), I discovered that the Lee scale's silver ball only goes to the 100 position, and the sliding plastic scale adds very little, to counterbalance a bullet of about 170 grains. The seller thought that they range from 150-174 or 180 grain.
Maybe Lee or Midway can furnish an identical, Second silver ball, or can only one specific ball be used?
With fmj bullets which have very straight, parallel sides (small hollow base), I doubt that you can use the precise caliper, hoping that the longer lengths correspond to some published, higher weights somewhere (?).
I've done no other reloading, and began just over a year ago. It has been a very strict, mechanical routine, and always being alone at this, have learned nothing else about reloading.
Having just received 1,500 x54R bullets of three different weights (?), I discovered that the Lee scale's silver ball only goes to the 100 position, and the sliding plastic scale adds very little, to counterbalance a bullet of about 170 grains. The seller thought that they range from 150-174 or 180 grain.
Maybe Lee or Midway can furnish an identical, Second silver ball, or can only one specific ball be used?
With fmj bullets which have very straight, parallel sides (small hollow base), I doubt that you can use the precise caliper, hoping that the longer lengths correspond to some published, higher weights somewhere (?).
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