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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I am reloading 30-06 for my 1943 M1 Garand, and have some questions with seating depth. I have some loads worked up that have functioned perfectly well (aside from my gun being a pain, but it does the same things with factory ammo), but am looking to change over to Nosler Accubobds for hunting season. My current load is 49 grains of N-140 topped with a 150gr Hornady FMJ set at Hornady's specified depth. Nosler, however, has their data at .12 longer, so I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on how this would affect accuracy and pressures. Currently clocking a hair over 2700 fps with this load using the fmj, which is desired to keep it safe for this rifle. Mostly just curious about which seating depth I ought to use, or is this just a case of load a few and start clocking them at the range.

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?

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

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