My 223 is getting rebarreled and chambered to 223 ackley improved. I'm going to use my same lee collet die and just get a redding body die for now. My is question is about my redding competition seater die for 223 rem, will it work for the ai? I don't want to spend the money on new seater if I...
Everything looks correct except the case length is 2.484 but I doubt that would make a big difference.
Its definitely the correct powder, and like I said it has shown these signs (ejector marks)with lighter loads using 3 different powders. You recommend a trip to gunsmith?
I appreciate all the great information you guys have given me. I think ill take your advice Andrew and go back to h4831sc or something little faster. See if I can find a good accuracy nod at the lower end.
Thanks for the info notaglockfanboy, that makes me feel lil better knowing someone else...
The brass I have was brand new and I had different brass before this norma brass. The powder charge is the first thing I thought of as well. I have check weights and two scales, digital and beam. I do quite a bit of shooting and reloading and like I said I load for other rifles with same...
Once again thanks for the help Andrew.
I bought the rifle new a few years ago. I did fire some factory rounds when I first bought it. I don't recall having any pressure issues with them but I doubt I really looked. It's a hunting rifle so when I first starting load development after buying...
Brass are all trimmed to 2.484. I've just recently got started annealing but haven't annealed these brass yet, the brass I have are on there 2nd and 3nd firing. I don't normally bump the shoulder back until they get little stiff when chambering. For that process I have a redding body die and...
Im using a digital scale but I also have beam scale I check with periodically. I load for other rifles and do not have this problem. Right now I'm using berger 115 gr vlds, cci# 200 lr primers, norma brass. I have used many different combos of bullets, primers and powders for this gun with the...
So I have a howa 1500 chambered in 25 06 that will show light ejector marks even at min starting load? The higher I go the worse the marks get and heavy bolt lift soon follows. I have not been able to get half way through a load work up with the three different powders I've tried(imr...
I've had mine for about two years now. I haven't shot it a ton but I bet I have 3000 rounds through it. Never a single hiccup of any kind. I've used quite a few different factory rounds but mostly handloads. Its a great gun, especially in that price range.
Ok thanks for the reply. I just had better accuracy using lee die so I thought maybe incorperating the lee into the process would work better. I did try it on a piece of brass. It was pretty stiff going into the collet die but it worked. Id probably be over working the brass though?
So I've been neck sizing only my 223 brass with a lee collet neck die with much better results than I had fl sizing them with my rcbs die. I now need to bump the shoulder. I wanted to ask some of you more experienced guys if my process would be the way to go with the dies I have. I was going to...
So I have 223 bolt action 1&9 twist and it shoots the 69 and 70gr bullets great. I just got a good deal on some 75gr hornady hpbt, I've been wanting to try something a little heavier to see if my gun would stabilize them. So I loaded up some test loads and went to the range today. I shot 3 shot...
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