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Don Fischer
.223 Remington Joined: 22 August 2009 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 60 |
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Best tip I could give is if your just starting to handload, learn to make safe good ammo befor going on to making super accurate ammo. Other than by accident, you can only make good safe ammo by following all the rules. Next tip is to never never ever touch your primers with your hands. The narural oil in your skin can kill a primer dead. Last tip is to not take a load from anywhere and just start loading in your rifle. A safe load in one rifle could be a dangerious load in another. I don't post powder charges I use. The real last tip. The loads in the manual your are looking at were safe in the gun they were tested in at the time they were tested. Always start 10% below max and work up from there watching for pressure. The absolute last tip. A barfing dog never bites! |
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Alan R McD Jr
.22 LongRifle Joined: 15 November 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 15 |
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A can of powder you bought in 1973 and a load you worked up from it is
not the same as a can of the same powder you bought last week. It's close but not the same. Never assume that you didn't throw a double load in a case. Always look and if there is any doubt, dump it. It's really hard to mess up using H4831 in a 270, but you can make a helluva mess with Bullseye and a 38 spl. Do not "experiment" until you have been reloading for 60 years, know all there is to know and you receive a notice from Obama's "Death Panel" that your medical care has been canceled. Until then follow the manual. Reduce distractions while loading. No radio, no TV, etc. Concentrate. Count your fingers and eyes each time you come back from a shooting session to determine if you are concentrating enough. Alan |
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mule_tail
.243 Winchester Joined: 14 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 118 |
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use federal or remington brass pmc and hornady are also ok but i do not like winchester and dont load a 180 grain bullet with 150 grain data that could cause problems i know i wouldnt want to be the person behind that gun
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mike
Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
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mule_tail
.243 Winchester Joined: 14 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 118 |
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oh yeah another one dont use 30-06 shell holder for a .223 the case goes in the die but wont come out i thought i ruined it but i eventually got it out forgot how i did though of course the case was ruined but at least i saved the die
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mike
Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
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mule_tail
.243 Winchester Joined: 14 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 118 |
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i dont know if anyones mentioned this yet but make shure your scales adjusted right so you dont get 100 cases with powder in then realize you did it wrong and have to do it all over again
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mike
Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
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mule_tail
.243 Winchester Joined: 14 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 118 |
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what i do to find my powder charge is take an average of the starting load and max load from three differnt sources then once i get the three i then avearge them and get really accuarte ammo i did this for nosler 60grn partitions in my .223 and shot a 1/4inch group at 100yds and ever since then thats how i did it
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mike
Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
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