Recent content by fiftybmg

Felt recoil can be limited in a few ways. Add weight to the rifle [ lead or a mercury reducer in the stock ]. Fit a muzzle brake. Add slip-on a recoil pad to the butt. Add a shoulder recoil pad to yourself. 1.What is the most you want the rifle to weigh ? 2. Are you prepared to fit a muzzle...

This looks like a better way. It doesn't rely on how you feel after looking at something.

You confuse signs with measurements. A pressure sign is not a pressure measurement. Your ability to read pressure signs does not change that fact. You refer to data as a guide. I agree. What does that have to do with the writer of the article and the article content ? Thread contributors...

I don't know the mechanics, it's what the powder manufacturers do.

When I went shopping for a long range scope, I took my Leupold VX1 3-9 along. I compared a number of scopes by focusing on distant brickwork. Exposed brickwork has a regular pattern, which at a distance it's easy to see if the lines stay true under magnification. The final test was the sight...

Just because you know of no other way, does not make the looking and feeling reliable. It just makes it good enough for you. I do expect that a writer for a gun magazine with over 50 years experience reloading, should know, or not write an article about it.

I've never seen a primer from a proof load, so I can't say what they look like. All loads flatten primers to some degree. Primer flattening is an indication of pressure, the same way recoil is an indication of pressure, the same way brass flow of the case walls is an indication of pressure. I...

Prove it. Prove that the optical inspection method is a reliable indicator of pressure. Prove that load development on an unknown cartridge is done without data, and purely by feel. Prove it by putting together a picture chart or something. So much indentation is X psi, etc. Also catalog...

The writer of the article uses a method that does not refer to any manual, and ignores all the parameters you mention.

You're mentioning proof loads and psi. The writer of the article I refer to mentions neither and claims to use a method that ignores both.

I agree that you can be over max and not see indications, but with a fps number to guide you, at least you're verifying something against a known value, and making an informed decision. Your common sense tells you that 200 fps over is excessive, because you have the reference. Even if you can't...

The indicator is reliable if it's measured. How it looks and feels is unreliable. If you can't measure it, making stuff up doesn't count.

They also use napalm.

I'm saying it's not a pressure measurement, and cannot be substituted for. Looking at the primer and feeling the bolt is not a pressure measurement. It does not tell you what the pressure is. Feeling the recoil is a pressure sign. Why not gut feel also ?

I was reading up on 30-06 AI, and came across an article on Shootingtimes.com , 30-06 AI reloads . In there the writer describes his journey to producing reloads, and ends with "... I used the usual pressure indicators of primer appearance and bolt lift to estimate how safe the “hotter”...