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    .300 BO, how to spot thick brass that creates a bulge?

    You could weigh them on a reloading scale and sort them. Still tedious. .
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    Has anyone tried "The Load" (13 grs. Red Dot) in 8mm Mauser with lead pills?

    You can’t use “the load” in your Czech rifle. Please send it to me for disposal. Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😉
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    Sick and Tired of STUCK Cases...

    If the OP is experiencing stuck cases with range pickups in .308 and .223, it is likely they were fired in an auto with a large chamber. His press (exactly what is it?) may not have the power to size those over-expanded cases. Even the best lube can’t overcome too much of an oversized...
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    45 ACP and Unique and the Lyman Manual

    This demonstrates a lack of understanding of how propellants are made. “Burn rate” has only an indirect relationship with how a powder performs in a rifle/pistol cartridge. The “burn rate” is determined in a “ laboratory bomb” device which does not replicate a firearm. Identical “burn rates”...
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    CAR 15 Build

    I bought my Colt 16” Sporter I in 1982. I installed a slip-on flash hider right away and have used it a lot since then. (It shoots better with that heavy flash hider than it does with an A1.) Shot a handful of deer on Kodiak Island with it, but mostly target shooting and plinking in the...
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    Metering Hodgdon Universal Powder

    A very good point, especially when dealing with small charge weights a very consistent operation of the handle each throw is essential for accurate results. But really, +/-0.1 grains is about all one can reasonably expect from a powder measure. After all, thats’s the accuracy limit of most...
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    Getting XTP bullets to expand?

    The velocities on the Hornady boxes are not expansion velocities, they are the velocity range which Hornady loads them to in their various calibers. Many articles about the .32 H&R just parrot Hornady's velocity range, assuming that there is expansion - they are wrong at much under 1000 fps...
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    Subsonic 30-30 Loads with 215 and 245 Grain MBC Bullets

    My .32-20 with .308” 1:10“ barrel will stabilize 220-grain RN jacketed bullets at 1075 fps, so shorter cast bullets of similar weight should stabilize. No experience with the .30-30 and heavy bullets, but powders like Unique and BlueDot should give low recoil and report while being easy to...
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    Bear Attack in Canada Last Week Settle Guns vs Spray

    Nope, AFAIK there is but a single recorded instance of a grizzly/brownie actually eating a human after killing it. This out of many dozens of human kills by bears. While anything is possible, this just doesn’t fit these bears’ behavior. Black bears are another matter and are known to eat...
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    Another .45 Colt

    When I received my last M25-5 over 35 years ago it shot poorly. I found that a .458” bullet would drop freely through the cylinder throats without being pushed. I sent it back to S&W, and within a few weeks it was returned with a new cylinder sporting .452” throats. It shot great after that. .
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    260 remington

    I‘ve shot .260s for over 20 years. The cartridge is a good one and in practical terms is comparable to the Grendel - in spite of what the fanboys might say. Both were Remingtons, an M7 and M700VLS; I still shoot the 700. Recoil is determined by bullet weight, velocity and gun weight, not...
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    AA4064 vs AA4350 - Strange Results

    We need more information to answer your question accurately. How many shots in each group at each range? How large were the groups at each range? What were the velocities and ES for each load? .
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    1943 MA lithgow added to my surplus war rifles collection

    I got my ‘41 Lithgow in the early/mid 90s for around $90(!), used it for years shooting mostly cast. All matching, it came crusted in cosmoline. Took a long time to clean it all up. The only ”problem” was the front sight had to be drifted waaay to the left to sight it in. I’m sure the OP...
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    Labradar can track 485g 45-70 bullets to at least 200 yards!

    That could be due to the smaller sample size so they are not really comparable. I’ve used my Labradar to confirm the actual BCs of various bullets in various calibers; some bullets match the published BC pretty closely, others are further away. (I use the Hornady ballistic software to estimate...
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    UNIQUE alternatives

    As others have stated, Universal (NOT Universal Clays!) is pretty close in performance to Unique. In some loads it is almost identical in fps per grain, in other loads it is not so they should not be considered as “universally” interchangeable. I find it burns cleaner - if that matters - and...
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    44 Magnum loads for my Super Redhawk Alaskan?

    Primer appearance is a poor pressure indicater in revolvers. Speer has included the following in their manuals for decades.
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    Subsonic 223 and 308 w/ Titegroup

    Don’t you love comments like this? The OP was very specific in his request “has anybody done this?” Instead of answering the OP, the poster tells him it’s a “waste of components”. I challenge the poster for not answering the question but instead criticizing the notion of having fun. Then he...
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    Subsonic 223 and 308 w/ Titegroup

    Don’t you just love comments like this? The OP wants to try this for fun and asks the forum if anyone’s tried it. So what happens? Some folks tell him that “it’s a waste of components”. I guess fun is now considered a waste of time. SMH…. .
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    6mm remington

    A .243 case will not fully chamber in my 6mm Remington, the case shoulder is too large in diameter for the chamber. .
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