spschroeder
Member
Hi all,
New to reloading here...looked around for a great message forum on reloading and I'm confident I found it!
Have 2 questions for you I'm hoping you can help with:
1) I'm starting out with some .308 Win using the RCBS Master Reloading kit which includes the Uniflow Powder Measure. The powder I'm using is an IMR4895. I dialed in the powder measure for 42 grains and get 42 +/- 1.0 grains on each throw. Because of this, I lowered each throw to 41 grains and am using my trickler to get exactly 42. How consistent are your powder throws? Do you bother measuring each out or do you go directly from the powder measure to the primed brass?
On a related note (okay, so 3 questions really )...it's kind of a pain dumping powder into my RCBS beam-scale pan...I have to hold it against the bottom of the powder measure to keep powder from bouncing off...anybody have tips? I've thought about using an old cartridge to transfer powder from the measure to the pan (of course, the answer to my first question may negate needing to do this all together).
2) Overall length. I've been told it's not the best thing to go off of, and from my first 25 reloads, I'd have to agree. I'm loading some Win 147gr FMJBT (watch out coyotes!) for my .308. I've got the seater set up for a dummy round with COL of 2.800" I'm getting final COLs from my sample of 25 between 2.792 and 2.808 inches. Is this common going off the tip of bullets? I have yet to get a comparator that measures of the ogive, but that's next on my shopping list.
Look forward to spending time on this board and both giving and receiving great advice! Any other Wisconsin members out there? PM me if you are...
-Steve
New to reloading here...looked around for a great message forum on reloading and I'm confident I found it!
Have 2 questions for you I'm hoping you can help with:
1) I'm starting out with some .308 Win using the RCBS Master Reloading kit which includes the Uniflow Powder Measure. The powder I'm using is an IMR4895. I dialed in the powder measure for 42 grains and get 42 +/- 1.0 grains on each throw. Because of this, I lowered each throw to 41 grains and am using my trickler to get exactly 42. How consistent are your powder throws? Do you bother measuring each out or do you go directly from the powder measure to the primed brass?
On a related note (okay, so 3 questions really )...it's kind of a pain dumping powder into my RCBS beam-scale pan...I have to hold it against the bottom of the powder measure to keep powder from bouncing off...anybody have tips? I've thought about using an old cartridge to transfer powder from the measure to the pan (of course, the answer to my first question may negate needing to do this all together).
2) Overall length. I've been told it's not the best thing to go off of, and from my first 25 reloads, I'd have to agree. I'm loading some Win 147gr FMJBT (watch out coyotes!) for my .308. I've got the seater set up for a dummy round with COL of 2.800" I'm getting final COLs from my sample of 25 between 2.792 and 2.808 inches. Is this common going off the tip of bullets? I have yet to get a comparator that measures of the ogive, but that's next on my shopping list.
Look forward to spending time on this board and both giving and receiving great advice! Any other Wisconsin members out there? PM me if you are...
-Steve