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Loaded 30 7×57 , 6 loads of 5ea in 4350 . 20 with the 7mm-168 RCBS and 2 loads with 287-154 NOE Hunter .

50 each of the proven 35-250 RCBS in the 358 Win .

I shot all of that up in like May the 358 is really docile in that 8.5# Mauser pattern rifle .

125 gr 2" groups at 2600 fps in the 25-06' .

I can't remember the last time I saw so many get...

I posted 2-3 things I was doing nothing even from the "regulars" . I thought 24-2500 fps with 125gr cast in a 1-9 twist 25-06' was something to talk about.
Getting a 6.5 Japanese down to 3.5" from...

Any time you add a reamer you're introducing a new variable where you may already have 4-5 reamers involved .

In a perfect world you're chamber gauge would be cut with the same reamer that cut...

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Last Tuesday I took off for my birthday and celebrated the solitude of an empty range .

I took Dad's M700 Varmint Master 25-06' with the OM wide shoe trigger , early 1972 . Very...

Dad's M700 . This is where Dad shot his load zeroed at 200 yd 100gr SMK or PH at 3100 fps I haven't run the cast loads over the Chrony yet but the 125 gr cast should be about 1900 with Unique and...

Observations , stories , discussion.

I've used 3-4 different tools and methods to "get the first shot on paper" . Like so many of us vision changes have changed the means . In my 20s , enough...

Hard cast is a marketing term . There's 10 ways to get a bhn number and 8 very different results. Fit stops fouling .

I'll be watching the progress .

Free hand , kind of an upright Weaver stance, I was shooting 3" at 25 yd . For a compact type pistol with a floating barrel ,bone factory stock , self defense type auto I was satisfied as I had...

That makes me feel pretty good about my 2.5" XD40 .

I wish it was 4" I could get 1000 fps MV.
I used Unique with cast .

Just for geewiz what do get with the 175/180s ?

The groups look good to me . What range ?

Not really wildcats as such but out in the weeds .

148 gr nose out WC 358361 Lyman .
3.0 Unique 9×19
Data is sort of an amalgam from 38 short ,12 kpsi cartridge, and 9×19 147 halved and worked...

Just a quirk I stepped in .

I've been shooting the Santa Barbara 98 358 Win for a while . Since I got it set up it's been fidgety with the last round. Things being what they have been since the...

358 Win 360-238 XCB NOE , 20 rounds 8.5 Unique for fire form FC 308 .
257 Roberts 257412 10 Unique 20 something to shoot.
275 Rigby 7mm 168 RCBS 8&8.5 Unique and 41&41.5 DuPont 4350.
25-06'...

RP LRP brass
Win LRP
IMR 4350
Sierra Match King HPBT 180 gr .

1885

The rifle .
41';Tirni Carcano
Montana Rifleman 20" 1-8.5" target crown .

A long story shortened to I needed a cartridge rim to fit a bolt face then fitted a caliber barrel .

6.8 data works fine up to 130 gr but I want use the whole of the available twist . Not a...

It's a 1917 and has to retain the case mouth head space with a .453 maximum dia cast bullets .
The 45 mag dies came up dirt cheap compared to the Colts dies I looked up yesterday........ $75 !?! I...

Did another 200 Colts today . Star Line brass.

I have a 45 ACP reamed 45 S&W with an ACP Reamer . It seems the 45 Win Mag is just the right length dies for the taper crimp and evev the steel sizer...

Speed #12 says 10-11 for their 260gr jhp soni could probably go on up to 11.5:with the 252 gr cast .

One hundred each 45 Colts in 1x Armscore Precision brass . The fine NOE 454-250 SWC version of the Kieth 454424 Lyman from WW-pure at 50-50 . The lube is the left overs in the new to me lubeizer...

Can't get the followers there to drop in here .

I check at least every other day ,I try to make it twice a day . I don't post much because I don't get to shoot as much as I'd like .
Most of what I do load is finished and fixed data in known loads...

100 fps is factory data for a case step in caliber with like pressure........
It's also why up to 165 gr the 308 is in a dead heat with the 06' .......
It takes roughly 5,000 psi or 5 gr of most...

Yeah I made contact .

Long out of production now 100 round 410 trays.