Got thinking about this, I have heard tell that many surplus rounds are as innacurate as they are because of inconsistant bullet weights and charges. So I am wondering if I can increase the accuracy of the surplus rounds by pulling them, and reloading them with consistant values of their orignal componants.
1- Pull 10 rounds, one at a time, measuring grains of powder used in each case to get a base charge range for the powder used in the cartridges(that way I know how much of the unknown powder was in each case, and therefore an acceptable range to put back into the cases)
2-- Pull rest of them, dumping all the powder in a hopper
3- Weigh all the bullets, and segregate based on weight variances.
4- Reload using consistant charges of the pulled powder (ONLY in the range of charge values found from the 10 pulled original cartridges), and creating batches of similar bullet weight.
I know many would say its alot of work just for surplus, but I don't know, it seems like it could be a lot of fun for me.
Any issues that you can think of?
1- Pull 10 rounds, one at a time, measuring grains of powder used in each case to get a base charge range for the powder used in the cartridges(that way I know how much of the unknown powder was in each case, and therefore an acceptable range to put back into the cases)
2-- Pull rest of them, dumping all the powder in a hopper
3- Weigh all the bullets, and segregate based on weight variances.
4- Reload using consistant charges of the pulled powder (ONLY in the range of charge values found from the 10 pulled original cartridges), and creating batches of similar bullet weight.
I know many would say its alot of work just for surplus, but I don't know, it seems like it could be a lot of fun for me.
Any issues that you can think of?