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Do you have a linkYou should watch the video orkan did years ago on annealing.
Dang hang on let me go digging leupold sells itNO...? please share.
NO...? please share.
6.5SS , 57gr H1000, 3008 right out of the gate fireforming cases. Haven't tried pushing any harderHopefully I’ll find out by this fall
I did a ton of research on the SS’s and that’s what I saw as well.
A lot of best case numbers advertising.
My 7 saum can do that with Berger 180 hybrids.6.5SS , 57gr H1000, 3008 right out of the gate fireforming cases. Haven't tried pushing any harder
that's goodMy 7 saum can do that with Berger 180 hybrids.
Don’t think I’m bashing the Sherman cartridges because I like the design but the stated performance gains are a bit much.that's good
no arguement from meDon’t think I’m bashing the Sherman cartridges because I like the design but the stated performance gains are a bit much.
I think of them as the short action version of the 300 prc vs 300WMno arguement from me![]()
The designs are awesome. A modern Ackley I guess you could say. Specially the new mega case is so tempting but been down that road.Don’t think I’m bashing the Sherman cartridges because I like the design but the stated performance gains are a bit much.
right on manJust thought I'd toss this out there. I have repeated a lot of mistakes that I should have known from experience not to, so I made a list for myself to post over my bench. Some will get folks' feathers ruffled - they shouldn't, these are for me, if you don't like them, then by all means you do you. Keep in mind Im purely a recreational/hobbyist shooter not a competitive shooter. Hopefully some of it resonates, and may help some of the Newbies from making costly mistakes that I have made over the years in terms of time and money.
RELOADING RULES FOR LONG RANGE SHOOTING
- Don’t load for speed and compromise brass life & safety
- Don’t load for accuracy and ignore velocity SD
- If you’re anywhere near a max load without pressure signs and you have good accuracy (1/2 MOA) & velocity SD (<10), STOP. That’s your load.
- Don’t ignore pressure signs; when the bolt or the brass speaks to you, listen to it.
- When working up a load without a lot of available data, use 15 cases over and over so if you go overpressure and blow the pockets, you limit the damages
- Don’t mix and match components (e.g., Lapua & Peterson) or recipes; use the best ingredients you can get, find one load that works, and stick with it
- If you have a bad day shooting, don’t reinvent your load. You settled on it, after much toil, for a reason. You just had a bad day.
- Don’t stockpile brass – good cases last 10+ firings. A couple hundred cases will get you to your next barrel
- Shoot a batch of 100 cases until it’s toast before dipping into new brass; 100 toasted + 100 brand new cases is worth a lot more than 200 once-fired cases.
- Don’t leave excess lube (especially lanolin) on your cases; it will attract dirt and gum up your chamber. Wipe it off with a rag dampened in a gentle solvent.
- Don’t waste time with tedious manual tasks of dubious benefit, e.g., cleaning primer pockets, turning necks, measuring runout, measuring primer seating depth, weight sorting anything. Use that time to shoot and have fun and refine your skills
- If you’re spending more time reloading than shooting, you’re spending too much time reloading.
- Do things in large(r) batches whenever possible to save time reconfiguring equipment and for consistency, e.g., annealing, brass cleaning, trimming.
- If it doesn’t shoot, it’s you, the barrel, the bullet, the powder/charge, or the seating depth.
- If you’ve changed a variable 5 times and the problem persists, that variable is not the problem.
- Guys never post pictures of their worst groups and velocity SD. What you see online is cherry-picked and unrepresentative of the average. Don’t chase somebody else's unicorns.
I agree - the list is great but when working up a load, I sometimes tighten up the variables for a bit. Working up a new load seems to be the requirement with limited supplies. Get the load doped and load 50 the fun way per above if you have the supplies and start shopping for more and hope!This is an AWESOME list !!!
For initial testing I use 10 rounds minimum for ES/SD and am willing to trust it with fairly high confidence. I do not throw away any numbers. After that I try and chrono as many rounds as possible while practicing to get a good solid velocity number.Sooooo.... i have a question that has been bugging me and have never seen any reference to the same. I am sure this will stirrr some interesting responses.
just how valuable is ES? obviously, the concept is extremely valuable but do you trust your ES from a 3-round group, 5-round group, 10-round group, 20-round group?
For example, if i have an ES of 34 from a 10-round group and upon deeper analysis i find that i had just one flier (maybe a bad primer or something like that). if i remove that one flier, my ES goes from 34 to 10. So from that analysis, is my ES 34 or 10.
remember what Albert Einstein taught us... EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE to which a common reply is CONTEXT MATTERS
First off if you're worried about variance, stop looking at ES altogether, it's not a statistical/mathematical measurement, it's just your "spread" and it will be reflected in your SD.Sooooo.... i have a question that has been bugging me and have never seen any reference to the same. I am sure this will stirrr some interesting responses.
just how valuable is ES? obviously, the concept is extremely valuable but do you trust your ES from a 3-round group, 5-round group, 10-round group, 20-round group?
For example, if i have an ES of 34 from a 10-round group and upon deeper analysis i find that i had just one flier (maybe a bad primer or something like that). if i remove that one flier, my ES goes from 34 to 10. So from that analysis, is my ES 34 or 10.
remember what Albert Einstein taught us... EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE to which a common reply is CONTEXT MATTERS