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    Automated High Volume Annealer

    "Oh, it's just a midsize reloading operation...I just go through what most people shoot or load in their lifetime, every month..." Lol
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    Standard cartridge loads

    Yep, as AJC1 pointed out, manufacturers don't always use "canister grade" powders...they get their powder in boxcar-sized lots, and sometimes custom blended for a specific application. With smokeless powders, the primary base is usually a nitrocellulose, though there are also double-base types...
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    Favorite bonded bullet

    A .308 Gold Dot will probably get it done fine at 300 on deer. They don't have the greatest BC, but 300 isn't real long range with the .308. Fairly well balanced cartridge and bullet if cost is a major concern. As far as my favorite bonded bullet, I like the original white tipped Accubond. Very...
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    7mm rem mag help

    I like H1000 in 7RM, personally. I normally use it with bullets in the 160-168gr range, but my Rem 700 LR typically groups 162 ELD-M at .75-1" @ 200yd. I think it will give much better results with the 180gr bullets. I have a friend who gets 180 Bergers going around 3k with RL26, but that...
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    AR-10 build thoughts: .358 win or .45 raptor

    Built a 16" .358 Win on Aero M5 receivers a few years back. Sold it to a buddy because he would get better use out of it. It would run 200 Hornady FTX @ 2500, or 225 Partitions @ 2400 with Ramshot Tac over #34 primers, and make cloverleafs at 100. Called it "Thumper." Something kinda nifty...
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    7mm rem mag help

    H4350 will be quite a fast burn rate for that bullet weight. It can be done, of course, there's data available. I sort of feel like it might be hard to get consistency -and therefore accuracy- out of...most data I dug up says a max charge of around 55-56gr. I feel like that would leave a lot of...
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    why not a bullpup?

    I like the CONCEPT of the bullpup rifle. It's economical with it's use of internal volume, and the idea of a full length rifle in a carbine footprint or a carbine in a PDW length is certainly appealing. I kinda started to drool over the Desert Tech MDRX in 6.5CM. A 20" intermediate caliber with...
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    T/C Venture velocities?

    59.0gr IS book max for 165gr bullets, at least per Hodgdon's loading site, as well as the 8th edition Hornady manual I have at my bench. I never go over max for initial ladders, and while I have gone over max on some loads for certain guns, I don't proceed to that point unless: a) velocity is...
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    T/C Venture velocities?

    Thought I would follow up here: Worked up loads in another .30-06, which also showed speeds slightly above book, though nowhere near what the T/C produced. Second rifle is a Browning X-bolt. Where the T/C seems to have a pretty long freebore dimension (3.485" to the lands with the 165 AB) ...
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    Keeping non 5.56 ammo out of my 5.56 AR

    Pretty sure Grendel rounds shouldn't seat into a 5.56 bolt face (Rim diameter .440" vs .378" nominal) so in theory there's no way the firing pin would reach the primer if someone chambered a 6.5 in a 5.56... In practice, not 100% sure, but I wouldn't lose sleep about it. As for .300...
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    Nosler AB and jump nodes.

    My first workup with the bullets gave me about 1" groups at 100yds at 68gr and 71.5gr charges. Parsing the internet for information reveals a lot of "these bullets like to jump," so I did a methodical jump test. Seeing the sub 1/2 MOA pair at .140" is sort of promising...and echoes some...
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    Norma 175 308 golden target

    Can't speak for the .308, but we've used quite a bit of the Golden Target in 6.5 PRC for my wife's rifle. I got it for $40/box, or $2/rd for loaded ammo, when the only new brass I could find in the caliber a few months ago was Nosler at $84/50 or $1.68/rd just for cases. In our case, the 143...
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    Nosler AB and jump nodes.

    Just wanted to share some observations from a test I did yesterday with some 160gr Nosler Accubonds in my Bergara B-14 Ridge rifle. The internet has a lot of back and forth with jump info for these rounds. I decided to do a relatively controlled test, using a known combination of case, primer...
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    ARE OHAUS RCBS BEAM SCALE GOOD??

    Sounds like a 1010. I have one, it's worked fantastic for me. Funny enough, my father-in-law has a white Ohaus scale that he uses; I learned a lot from him when I got into reloading. When I looked online for advice about what beam scales worked the best for precision loading, the 1010 came up a...
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    What is so special about 5R rifling?

    I know polygonal rifling generally is, but I don't know about 5R.
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    What is so special about 5R rifling?

    Yep, 5 groove with slanted land edges. The slanted edges are said to reduce fouling by not cutting as aggressively into the jacket, and the less sharp edges allow better gas sealing and reduced friction. Sort of a halfway point between traditional cut rifling and polygonal rifling. I've only...
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    T/C Venture velocities?

    I have a coworker with a different '06 who also has asked about me making him some ammo. Reckon if I start my workups in his Browning, it should at least give me a yardstick for where my pressures are at...if his velocities are more in line with what I'm expecting to see for the charge weight, I...
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    T/C Venture velocities?

    Aside: I also load 6.5CM with the same keg of H4350 and see a 140 ELD-M just under 2850 from a 26" Savage barrel at 41.8...so it doesn't seem to be a particularly hot lot of powder, either.
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    T/C Venture velocities?

    59 is where I stopped. I'm just one of those twitchy folks who doesn't like to post max loads by default, lest someone just go, "Sweet, I'm gonna just copy that load!" And I actually use 2 different scales when I do load workups...literally. I have an RCBS 1010 that I do my trickle into, and a...
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