Quick Handloading Tips
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Topic: Quick Handloading Tips
Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Subject: Quick Handloading Tips
Date Posted: 15 February 2006 at 12:40
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Post them here!! ------------- TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana  Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen |
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Posted By: LAH45
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 01:46
| Save yer coffee cans...........Creeker |
Posted By: varmintcaller
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:25
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De Burr the inside of primer pocket flash holes...really works ------------- Molon Labe "Come take Them" |
Posted By: Goose Hunter Jr
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 01:28
| Keep powder in a safe and dry place! |
Posted By: Rockydog
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 13:48
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Make index cards for each can of powder in the house. Secure them around cans with rubber bands. Record date purchased, Grains used from can, pet loads, etc. After you've filled the powder measure transfer the card and rubber band to the measure. If you get interrupted or have more than one person reloading in your household you always know which powder is in the measure. RD ------------- When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: CB900F
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 14:43
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Fella's; If you're prone to losing the little data cards between the bench & the range, write the charge weight & bullet weight on the brass with a black sharpie. If you can't remember what powder it is then, you're beyond help. The writing is so thin it in no way affects pressures or ballistics that I've ever found. It will survive the firing, no problem. And it sure can help with all sorts of questions down the road. Wipes off with alchohol & doesn't leave marks either. 900F ------------- Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!! |
Posted By: varmintcaller
Date Posted: 21 July 2006 at 09:23
Use a Stoney Piont guage to find the bullet seating depth for your rifle, its accurate and easy to use ------------- Molon Labe "Come take Them" |
Posted By: NH_Hunter
Date Posted: 21 July 2006 at 10:49
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If you happen to have a powder thrower but no powder funnel (like me) then just crank open the powder thrower and it works as a great funnel. I always liked finding the max bullet seating depth the old fashioned way. Make a dummy cartridge and have the bullet seated out a ways. Slowly, a little at a time, tighten your bullet seating die until the bolt closes without any pressure. Another thing I learned...those loading blocks sure are handy. Trying to use just the space on your loading bench doesn't work too great. Pick up a couple and rotate them for each loading action. For example: Put all of your cases that need to be deprimed and sized in one loading block, and after you deprime/size the case put it in the other loading block so you don't get confused. ------------- Leverguns make me smile Proud Left Handed Shooter |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21 July 2006 at 11:38
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keep a bound reloading journal. With serial numbers of guns and load data. The first entry in mine is from 1962! 75 gr bullets and 40 grains of IMR 4064. Still works in my 243 winchester. BEAR |
Posted By: Fat Albert
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 16:43
Use wornout brass cleaning brushes on a electric drill to clean out the necks of cases (30cal in a 7mm case, 8mm in a 30cal case) before you start to reload them. Takes about 5 mins. to do 100 cases. ------------- Money is ment to be spent, just ask my wife. |
Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 16:57
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welcome to bsb, fat albert! ------------- TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen |
Posted By: varmintcaller
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 17:54
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Good tip fat albert....welcome to the forum ------------- Molon Labe "Come take Them" |
Posted By: Bad Water Bill
Date Posted: 27 August 2006 at 20:56
| just joined to bad no one has picked up on the advantage of the herter reloading blocks . they had 60 holes .you could load a round, move it down 10 spaces and always know where you stopped. |
Posted By: Roon dog
Date Posted: 28 May 2007 at 04:56
| Always trim and resize your brass after you tumble and clean it. |
Posted By: soggyshooter
Date Posted: 28 May 2007 at 08:50
| Separate and lot out brass by wt. after sizing and trimming to length. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 11:48
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Bad Water Bill, I make my own with 60 holes for that very reason, welcome since I have not yet said that to you.
Rick |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 11:49
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I see several new members! welcome folks, Enjoy!!!
Rick |
Posted By: Rockydog
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 15:22
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Screw an old cookie sheet (the kind with 3/4" sides) to your bench and set your vibratory case cleaner in it. Keeps it from walking off the bench and catches the media you always spill all over the top of the bench when you empty it. RD ------------- When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: Donny
Date Posted: 19 June 2007 at 15:33
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Spread cartridge cases on a rimmed cookie sheet. Spray with Pam and roll around until all are coated. After resizing, run them in the tumbler for three minutes to get rid of the lube. If using walnut media, check flash holes for the rare stuck piece of media before priming. Buy Lee dies. They are excellent, priced below the competition, and if you stick a case, you can pull the collet-retained decapper, lock the die in a bench vise and pound out the stuck case yourself. I admit to having done this three times. Clean out the die, re-install the decapper and you are back in business. Buy PACT BBK electronic powder scale. Best reloading $90 I ever spent. Still have my balance beam, but doubt I will ever use it again. Plug it in, two minutes to warm up, two minutes to calibrate and start weighing. Speeds things up by a huge factor, especially when bumping up test loads .5 grains at a whack. ------------- "Wish I had time for one more bowl of chili." Last words spoken by Kit Carson |
Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Date Posted: 20 June 2007 at 03:48
welcome to the BaitShop, donny! pull up a stump and grab yourself a cup of something and stick around!
------------- TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen |
Posted By: Don Fischer
Date Posted: 29 August 2009 at 08:11
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Best tip I could give is if your just starting to handload, learn to make safe good ammo befor going on to making super accurate ammo. Other than by accident, you can only make good safe ammo by following all the rules. Next tip is to never never ever touch your primers with your hands. The narural oil in your skin can kill a primer dead. Last tip is to not take a load from anywhere and just start loading in your rifle. A safe load in one rifle could be a dangerious load in another. I don't post powder charges I use. The real last tip. The loads in the manual your are looking at were safe in the gun they were tested in at the time they were tested. Always start 10% below max and work up from there watching for pressure. The absolute last tip. A barfing dog never bites! ------------- Never let your stupidity over shadow your ignorance! |
Posted By: Alan R McD Jr
Date Posted: 02 September 2009 at 10:20
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A can of powder you bought in 1973 and a load you worked up from it is
not the same as a can of the same powder you bought last week. It's close but not the same. Never assume that you didn't throw a double load in a case. Always look and if there is any doubt, dump it. It's really hard to mess up using H4831 in a 270, but you can make a helluva mess with Bullseye and a 38 spl. Do not "experiment" until you have been reloading for 60 years, know all there is to know and you receive a notice from Obama's "Death Panel" that your medical care has been canceled. Until then follow the manual. Reduce distractions while loading. No radio, no TV, etc. Concentrate. Count your fingers and eyes each time you come back from a shooting session to determine if you are concentrating enough. Alan ------------- Remember November 2010 Pro-Life Pro-Gun Pro-America Don't settle for less! If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one. - Ann Coulter |
Posted By: mule_tail
Date Posted: 29 August 2011 at 09:47
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use federal or remington brass pmc and hornady are also ok but i do not like winchester and dont load a 180 grain bullet with 150 grain data that could cause problems i know i wouldnt want to be the person behind that gun
------------- mike Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
Posted By: mule_tail
Date Posted: 30 August 2011 at 09:25
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oh yeah another one dont use 30-06 shell holder for a .223 the case goes in the die but wont come out i thought i ruined it but i eventually got it out forgot how i did though of course the case was ruined but at least i saved the die ------------- mike Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
Posted By: mule_tail
Date Posted: 01 September 2011 at 15:55
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i dont know if anyones mentioned this yet but make shure your scales adjusted right so you dont get 100 cases with powder in then realize you did it wrong and have to do it all over again ------------- mike Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |
Posted By: mule_tail
Date Posted: 02 September 2011 at 05:44
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what i do to find my powder charge is take an average of the starting load and max load from three differnt sources then once i get the three i then avearge them and get really accuarte ammo i did this for nosler 60grn partitions in my .223 and shot a 1/4inch group at 100yds and ever since then thats how i did it ------------- mike Chinook, Montana im not a hunter, im a wildlife population control specialist. |