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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 23:24:25 GMT -5
BB is good stuff. Black Hills is even better. I never buy the stuff though. Too damn expensive. I have never tried Black Hills for the same reason. The good news is that I can handload ammunition to ALMOST those same factory specs, but my everyday loadings are lighter for practice purposes. Reloading manuals are great for telling you just how far you can push a particular caliber. Naturally the warn you about matching or exceeding the maximum published loads, and I NEVER match the max load. .1 or .2 grains less than the top load will get you close enough to max and still leave a safe margin of error.Assuming your scale is accurate. I know reloaders who will not reload under fluorescent lights. They notice the lights effect the scale. They also will never weigh a charge on the same table as their press. Seems over the top to me but what do I know?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 7:31:18 GMT -5
I have never tried Black Hills for the same reason. The good news is that I can handload ammunition to ALMOST those same factory specs, but my everyday loadings are lighter for practice purposes. Reloading manuals are great for telling you just how far you can push a particular caliber. Naturally the warn you about matching or exceeding the maximum published loads, and I NEVER match the max load. .1 or .2 grains less than the top load will get you close enough to max and still leave a safe margin of error. Assuming your scale is accurate. I know reloaders who will not reload under fluorescent lights. They notice the lights effect the scale. They also will never weigh a charge on the same table as their press. Seems over the top to me but what do I know? I use an electronic scale that is so sensitive it will change in the slightest breeze. I check its calibration at the start of a reloading session, and at varied intervals DURING the session. My scale is always on a separate surface from the press, and if I ever went for max loads I would be 3 times as careful as I am already. I also use a powder trickler to fine tune the load (look it up). It takes a lot of trickling to change a load by .1 of a grain, so getting into dangerous territory is almost impossible for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 8:06:35 GMT -5
Assuming your scale is accurate. I know reloaders who will not reload under fluorescent lights. They notice the lights effect the scale. They also will never weigh a charge on the same table as their press. Seems over the top to me but what do I know? I use an electronic scale that is so sensitive it will change in the slightest breeze. I check its calibration at the start of a reloading session, and at varied intervals DURING the session. My scale is always on a separate surface from the press, and if I ever went for max loads I would be 3 times as careful as I am already. I also use a powder trickler to fine tune the load (look it up). It takes a lot of trickling to change a load by .1 of a grain, so getting into dangerous territory is almost impossible for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 10:28:16 GMT -5
I use an electronic scale that is so sensitive it will change in the slightest breeze. I check its calibration at the start of a reloading session, and at varied intervals DURING the session. My scale is always on a separate surface from the press, and if I ever went for max loads I would be 3 times as careful as I am already. I also use a powder trickler to fine tune the load (look it up). It takes a lot of trickling to change a load by .1 of a grain, so getting into dangerous territory is almost impossible for me. Trust me........ I know what I'm doing. If I were REALLY anal, I would even trim my cases to the exact same length and clean the primer pockets. That's not necessary for every day handgun calibers. It's more important to me to check OAL to make sure bullets aren't being seated to deeply, which can cause dangerous pressure rise. My handy dandy digital caliper does that job for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 15:02:11 GMT -5
Trust me........ I know what I'm doing. If I were REALLY anal, I would even trim my cases to the exact same length and clean the primer pockets. That's not necessary for every day handgun calibers. It's more important to me to check OAL to make sure bullets aren't being seated to deeply, which can cause dangerous pressure rise. My handy dandy digital caliper does that job for me.
That isn't anal.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 15:02:39 GMT -5
Anal is Blind Willie's JFK fetish.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 16:29:41 GMT -5
Trust me........ I know what I'm doing. If I were REALLY anal, I would even trim my cases to the exact same length and clean the primer pockets. That's not necessary for every day handgun calibers. It's more important to me to check OAL to make sure bullets aren't being seated to deeply, which can cause dangerous pressure rise. My handy dandy digital caliper does that job for me.
That isn't anal. Maybe it's not anal, but it is unnecessary for 98% of shooting purposes. I tumble my cases clean, deprime and resize them, then either reprime a bunch for later loading, or go ahead and start the reloading process. That's about the extent of the detail I go into. I also use carbide dies, which eliminates having to lube the cases.
I highly recommend Lee dies. Been using them for +/- 50 years with nary a problem.
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