Recent content by Pdyson

A little less than a year ago I asked my LGS owner why he never had any Alliant powder in stock, even after he started receiving fairly large quantities of Hodgdon, IMR, Accurate, Ramshot, and Vitavouri powders. He said Alliant jacked up the prices on all their powder. His cost was so high he...

I think 67.1 is a starting load and the velocity you achieved is not super low at that charge weight. Keep going up over at 68.5 and work up .3 to .5gr increments from there. My 24” barrel likes Retumbo better but with H1000 it shoots 3080 with 73.8gr H1K at a 3.225” COAL with Winchester LRM...

I have noticed that wet tumbling beats up the case mouth, especially with long tumbling sessions over an hour or two. I always chamfer and debur, so I never noticed a difference in pressure or velocity. I didn’t like the case mouth damage so I limit my cleaning to 45 minutes. It’s not as...

If you think Alliant Reloader powders are expensive at $60 per pound. A friend picked up some Blackhorn at Scheels yesterday in the Colony North of Dallas. It’s $80 per 8oz bottle with a hard fast, 2 bottle per customer limit and no shipping. How do they sleep at night?

I tried the the Berger method and found it lacking. Top bench rest and F-class shooters will tell you a seating depth node is only .006 wide. You may luck into a good node, but if you make big jumps you’ll be skipping over good nodes. I shoot mostly heavy for caliber, high BC bullets in long...

i would use hardwood plywood and copy the T-track system Gavin used for his Ultimate Reloader bench. https://ultimatereloader.com/2011/03/27/the-new-reloading-bench-system-at-ultimate-reloader/

Naw, more like Iron Age roots. He’s a big time bowhunter and his ranch is bowhunting only. He bought a local sporting goods store and archery proshop in Abilene and renamed the store “into the outdoors” he sold Bows, guns, and knives. Anyway he saw the spearheads in the Coldsteel catalog and...

I have a good friend that booked a bear hunt in Canada way back, a year before the Towers fell in NY. He told the guide up front that he planned to use a spear he made with a Coldsteel spearhead. I guess he thought he was kidding, even after the guide asked everyone around the campfire the...

Back in 97 while training at Ft Meade the Maryland DNR opened up a refuge for bowhunting as an over abundance of deer had destroyed their habitat. They had browsed the trees to the bark. as high as they could reach. They only allowed 30 hunters in at a time so I had to wait for someone to come...

Nice score! Those shot bags and CCI primers are from the 1980s. When I retired from Border Patrol a couple years back I found 4000 CCI 200s in a camo boat bag which spent about 18 years in my Hot-r than-hell Laredo Texas attic. Everyone of them worked as advertised. I’m still shooting them.

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I agree with your top choices. Lapua is number one and Apha a close second and Peterson belted mag brass is second to none. Plus Norma, ADG and Starline are making good brass recently as well. I've never had any bad experiences with Hornady and For many cartridges it's hornady or nothing. A...

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I saw a video on backfire that noted how big the velocity lies are on the 7PRC factory ammo. Box says 3000fps from a 24” when actual is 200fps slower. He attributed it to rivalry between the 7PRC & 6.8 Western. I have seen sub-MOA handload data with 65gr RL26 and hornady brass launch the 175...

Wow! 10-thou swing on the bump is serious. I use one shot all the time and Redding wax too but haven’t experienced the issues you describe. But I know if you don’t use a X-pander mandrel, you need to get Lube inside the case neck or the expander button will stretch the case when you pull it...