Recent content by jlarose85

On your tests with Varget, was it with the 138 HHT’s? If so, what were your velocities with the charge weights you tried? Good to see those kind of velocities on the 178’s as well with a short barrel. My barrel is 17” and I need to start working on a load for Africa with 180 A-Frames. Hoping...

What powder are you planning on trying? My pound of Benchmark should be here tomorrow. Hope to get some loaded up and tested in the next couple weeks.

Appreciate it sir! I’ll give it a shot and report back with my results.

Perfect! Would you be able to offer a starting charge weight on the Benchmark?

Mine is a Bergara Approach. Barrel is cut down to about 17" and it's a 1:10 twist. I'm definitely open to using a different powder. Is the Benchmark as temp stable as Varget? I think most of the Extreme li e of powders are but correct me if I'm wrong. These are going to be hunting loads so I...

Got some of these of the way to try in my .308 Win. This is my first time loading Hammers so I’m very interested to see how they work. I'm going to start with Varget on these since I have it on hand. Anyone have any experience with these and what kind of results are you getting? I'm thinking I'm...

I do want to try the Hammers as well. I was steered toward the A Frame by the PH and my buddy that’s been hunting in Africa with this PH for the last 20 years, so I figured I’d listen. Lol. If I can’t get good enough performance out of the Swift I’ll start looking into Hammer and Barnes but I...

I’ll definitely be following this to see what others think. I’m about to start working up a load for Africa with 180gr A Frames in my 308. Good to see your getting that kind of velocity with the 212’s.

I’m having the same dilemma at the moment. I think the Weatherby or Browning might be the best bet for me at the moment. All my bolt guns have always been rem 700’s or clones so I’m used to having lots of aftermarket options so these 2 just weird me out because of that for whatever dumb reason I...

If I can get 2900fps from the Varget I'll be good to go for what I'm trying to do. Wanting to get as much speed back as possible with my short barrel I looked at a lot of the faster powders like the ones your mentioned. My concern with most of them is that those powdered are mostly ball and...

First off, I want to say thank you to everyone that’s chimed in on my recent posts about getting started on hand loading. I’ve been doing a ton of reading and have found so much useful info searching on the site. I’ve got pretty much everything lined up at this point but I need to choose a...

Can someone explain the sorting my weight thing to me? I understand that you are looking for consistency, but consistency in what? Is the weight a general proxy for wall thickness so the assumption is that you’ll get more consistent powder capacity out of those? I appreciate all the help everyone!

Thanks for all the advise everyone! I appreciate the help!

So I’m about to start reloading for my .308 and was wondering how much of a emphasis you all put on using the same brand brass across all of your hand loads? I have 160 rounds of once fired brass consisting of a mix of Hornady, Federal, Winchester, Nosler, Sig and Barnes. I’m wondering if I...

I actually did look into the small primer brass but as luck would have it I actually got my hands on 1000 Fed 210M primers. It was the absolute weirdest thing! I had them on my notifications list pretty much everywhere but was randomly looking on ammo it last week and saw that it was showing...