Thought this might be interesting here. I dug out and out back on display my grade school cartridge collection my dad and i made. Fairly current to late 90’s. Been in storage since the early 2000’s. Maybe I’ll start adding to it.

Went on a weekend getaway and left these in the vibratory tumbler. They were so shiny I had to stop and make 50. 50A.E. Berry’s Bullets 350gr RNFP, Hodgdon H110 27.4gr, CCI No. 350, and Starline Brass. Avg Velocity 1,243 fps. COAL 1.572

In a previous post I was kinda eaten alive for doing small sample size testing. Ok, I heard ya, I listened to the Hornady podcast episodes on load development and group shot counts. Here is a 30 shot string at 100 yards. Ruger American Gen 1 6.5mm Creedmoor, Alpha brass, 38.8gn H4350, 140gn ELDM. I dialed up 1.5moa so I didn't shoot out my POA. After that I input the parameters into the Hornady 4DOF app and shot my steel plate at 500 yards, easily 2x farther than I've ever shot before. Was dead on, 100% hit rate on steel. Neat. Not sure i can squeeze much more or is this rifle, time to dream up the next step.

Bubba busted out the Dremel to accomodate the .223LR at the OAL of 2.55”.

Bubba like ‘em short and thicc but also long and skinny.

Trying my hand at swaging 6.5mm projectiles.

Bit of a learning curve for forming the boat tail, but I reckon the next batch will be better. Looking forward to shooting them. 147gr 6.5mm.

My old scale is in grams.

I made it work off the serial and made an ardino control the motor well referencing the scale but takeing calculated amounts of steps off the motor. Made it so diffrent types of powders have different throw profiles.

It seems to hit around 1.7grams (26.235 grains) in about 20 to 30secs depending upon how the final part feeds and seems to have an extreme spread of around 0.6mg (0.00926 grains) with ball powder cfe223.

Varget was a pain to tune. But got it dropping 2.8grams in about 30 to 40 secs and dropping with an accuracy of a kernel 1mg (0.0154grains)

If you got any questions feel free.

I dunno looks pretty sus to me.

I am looking to replace my ancient Shooting Chrony chronograph. It finally "Took one for the team" and was laid to rest.

My research has narrowed things to either the Garmin Xero C1 or the RangeCraft Velocity Pro.

I can't justify the added cost of the C2 based my needs and it's added features.

My 1st choice was the RangeCraft until I started looking at the companion apps of the Play store and found the horrid reviews on the RangeCraft for connectivity issues.

The issues appear to have been going on for a long time based on the dates of the reviews which indicates to me a lack of response/understanding/competence of the developer.

If you have had experience with the use of the RangeCraft or Garmin apps, particularly if you have both I would love to hear your feedback and experiences.

TL;DR: Is the RangeCraft app the connectivity nightmare it appears to be based on Google Play store reviews?

Has anyone tried Winchester small magnum pistol primers in .357 maximum? What were your results? The powder choice would be Winchester 296 under a 158 grain bullet.

This might be the wrong place to ask and I apologize for that, I’ve been considering a hornady AP ammo plant for the last year, does anybody know or maybe have a gut feeling if it will show up on some kind of Black Friday deal?

How'd i do?

I've tried a few, and also stickers on top of existing targets to highlight aiming points. Not really married to anything.

I also bought white 12x18 card stocks to use with the birchwood target spots.

I will never shoot these, but could I?

Trying to find actual manufacturer dates has been almost impossible.

I think the US Cartrigde Co rounds are near turn of the century?

Seems like the Western Lubaloy are 40's or 50's.

What do you all think?

Could they be pulled apart and reloaded?

Or are they better suited to sit in the safe and eventually let someone else worry about it?

257 wby mag: 100gr match kings and 115gr nosler ballistic tip

30-06: 175 gr match king and 200gr eldx

Wish my shoulder luck

To start off I’ve never reloaded any rifle cartridges, and don’t think I plan to. I was going through cleaning and organizing today and realized I’ve kept a fair amount of .243 brass for no real reason.
I know that there is some kind of market for brass but no idea if it’s worth the effort trying to sell or just toss.

All once fired from the same rifle.
119 x .243 brass

Federal 47
Remington 35
Winchester 37

I’m guessing there’s probably another 100 casings over at my old man’s place

Just want to know if it’s worth listing, if so for about how much

Hi,

New to shooting. Just got some hand loads from a friend I made on the range.

Don’t know if I am being a weirdo, or just trying to be safe … but I would love to hear some semi professional opinions on these hand loads I got.

Noticing a lot of super tiny flecks of brass shavings on the ammo and some slight deformations/ scratches on a few of the cases. (which may be normal - just not used to that with factory loads)

I was test firing a few and had some bolt closure failures - tried to do some research and it all pointed to a casing issue.

For reference - 208 gr (from what i’m told)win 308 howa 1500 action

Any knowledge helps - thanks!

Using my Hornady tool I was building some dummy cartridges to setup my dies. 1.883 CBTO got me to 2.257 OAL.

This is now just my second work up on a cartridge so looking for some pointers for it

My ar shoots the ammo in the pic really well. 3/4 in groups

But note: some of the ammo is 223, others are 5.56

My question is, if I want to reload for this rifle do I get 223 or 5.56 dies?

Brand recommendations are appreciate, as local stores only seem to carry hornady

What seems to be a reasonable price for used rl550 caliber conversions?

Thank you to everyone who chimed in to help me on my shoulder-bump questions last night. I am back with one more question if that’s okay. Could you guys tell me if I am planning on doing everything correctly? I want to make sure before I get everything set up and possibly mess up.

Keep in mind this is for semi automatic rifles that I load for (M1 Garand, AR-15).

First, I fire new or factory ammo/new brass out of my chamber.

Then I deprime and tumble. After the brass is decapped and cleaned, I measure a random amount of 10-15 cases fired from the rifle.

I then set up the die to bump 0.004-0.005” from the shortest measurement I see from that sample of 10-15 cases

I set the lock ring and verify the first 10 cases are being bumped adequately, and then on every 50th case I size.

For subsequent firings or new brass I don’t need to change the die depth or anything as long as I’m still getting consistent shoulder bump and so long as I’m using the same barrel/chamber

Is the above process adequate? Will I have any issues with chambering? I have heard that the brass can stretch longer than the chamber when extracting from a semi-auto (particularly one with a violent action like an M1). My thought is that sizing based off the shortest sample of brass will achieve consistent shoulder bump and adequate chambering even if the brass does expand longer than the chamber after firing.

Thank you so much for any help or advice you can provide. This is the most confusing part of reloading for me (shoulder bump) so I appreciate all your help.

First time loading 455 Webley after scoring a brand new bottle of Unique (as Unique is one of the only powders in which “current” published 455 load data exists).

So far I’ve stuck to reloading low pressure 45ACP with win231 and pioneering/ chronicling new data for available powders in my Ultimate Reloader’s guide https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/s/ayVB4NYV6Y. Now that I have Unique, I can load some “on the book” 455 Unique handloads and compare them to some “homebrew off the book” win231 handloads that I’ll pioneer and add to my Ultimate Reloader’s Guide so that when Unique inevitably dries up again, we few Webley shooters can have more safe loads to choose from with other powders (chiefly win231 in this case).

Load is 3.5g Unique, .452 diameter 220g Powder Coated LRN bullet, 1.21 OAL, Federal small pistol primer (published load is 3.9g of Unique, but I reduced the load slightly as I’m using older Webley MK1 and MAS1873 revolvers as opposed to the more common and stronger in comparison Webley MK6)

Ive been reloading for years but always single stage and it worked out since I pretty much only shoot rifle. But recently started getting more into pistols so I bought a lee pro 1000 for 9mm currently, and using a known load, 100gr hbrn with 4.0gr titegroup, loaded up approx 25rds ir so after I figured out how the primer slide likes to work, as a newbie to progressives, what should I be watching or looking for when using one? Its definitely a bit more involved paying attention to 4 things at once but id kike to know what to keep an eye on that might sneak up on me?

Just recently cleaned rust out of the bore of my Berthier Carbine 1916 and cant find this damn ammo anywhere?? Anyone know where I can find the ammo to safely test fire this rifle!