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curious which has killed more raptors in the past two decades. Lead ammunition or windmills.

https://www.goodnet.org/articles/bald-eagle-population--quadruples-in-last-12-years America's Bald Eagle Population Has Quadrupled...

the brass doesn't crumble, it loses zinc and gets softer. That means it resizes differently for 1, for 2 you get a lot more flow of...

If ( that's a big word) If you don't drop your rifle you don't have as, much to worry about your scope. In all the years I have hunted I...

You are correct. The brass gets harder, and tend to split the neck a little later on. At the cost of $2.00+ case it doesn't take long to...

If I understand correctly, it doesn't give them an anneal at all the case neck just gets harder with each firing.

Well, doesn’t that give them a consistent anneal?

You can absolutely under anneal and over anneal pretty easily as brass is made of copper and is an excellent heat conductor. If you...

I purchased a Bench Sourcs, and set it up with hose attachment from a 5gal propane bottle. that way you are not running out of propane...

Brass life was also my reasoning behind an annealer. Using a Forster bushing die w/.002 constriction and only sizing about 2/3 of the...

Unless you use templaq you probably won’t definitely know. Some of my brass leaves pretty anneal lines and some doesn’t.

Over 25 yrs ago I was weighting my brass. I found that Win brass generally were the lightest. it's better to volume weight the cases...

For your 300WSM the best would be LAPUA and ADG! Norma would be your best choice of what you say you already have. JMO

In most of my match rifles I use Lapua. In my hunting rifles I use whatever I have and have mixed results. I have had Winchester 6.8...

No. Prep what you have correctly, load it, test it, and choose whichever brand shoots the best. I will say, I never use Federal brass...