How does that work? How have I not heard about a magnification ban?
What have you done in the reloading room today
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I unpacked the brass from Saturday, and weighed out a bunch of the seconds I picked up Friday. The “regular” ones have an es in weight of .3 gr or less. These seconds are anywhere from 109.1 gr to 111.6 in my sample size of 25. I’ll probably sort them a bit more thoroughly, though I doubt the coyotes will care as they breath their last. They’re currently running down full grown deer, and more calves are coming soon…
Banned magnification.....For black powder, or all rifles???
irishlad
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Muzzleloader season.
Hooda Thunkit
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Went down to the barn and fired up the pot.
Made a bit over 15 pounds of projectiles for the Finn M39(s). If my math is correct - not a given - that should be about 575 pieces.
I still need to size and check these, also sort and lube.
Think I'll be ready in less than 3 weeks?
.45Coltguy
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About to tackle some .38 spl with Red Dot and 158gr coated rnfp. Maybe some 30-30 later or tomorrow.
Got me a small "honey do" list to iron out too. A wee bit of picking some oranges before it rains again.
Got me a small "honey do" list to iron out too. A wee bit of picking some oranges before it rains again.
lightman
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Sadly that seems to be a common story with wheelweights!
Tom makes a good looking mold! I have a few. I mount mine on the handles with the sprue cutter swinging away from me. Kind of opposite of your picture.
lightman
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Still tumbling brass!!! About as tired of tumbling as you guys probably are of reading about it! 
The last load in tumbling as I type this. Yeah! The last 2 loads were my buddies 32 auto brass. Little buggers!
The last load in tumbling as I type this. Yeah! The last 2 loads were my buddies 32 auto brass. Little buggers!
45/30-06OKIE
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Why would they do that??
AJC1
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Received and stowed my 15 bars of superhard.... should be enough for a little while.....
1976B.L.Johns.
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Wet tumbled some 30.06 and 30-30.
Dried and sorted, but not yet by headstamp.
Tomorrow.........
Dried and sorted, but not yet by headstamp.
Tomorrow.........
Hooda Thunkit
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I usually do too. I mounted it this way to try it, I'm going back to having the sprue cutter swinging away.
Trey Veston
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Reloaded .357 Magnum for the first time today. Had a heck of a time getting the crimp correct and still had consistency issues with OAL and the crimp.
But, did three recipes and have at least 10 rounds of each one that are pretty close. Trying to find a defensive load that my Ruglin 1894 carbine likes. All three loads used 158gr Hornady XTPs. Tried H110, Accurate #9, and IMR 4227. Loads were within 2-3 grains of max.
I'm mounting a 3-12 scope on the rifle just for load development. I also have 180gr XTPs ordered from Midway, so will try those as well.
But, did three recipes and have at least 10 rounds of each one that are pretty close. Trying to find a defensive load that my Ruglin 1894 carbine likes. All three loads used 158gr Hornady XTPs. Tried H110, Accurate #9, and IMR 4227. Loads were within 2-3 grains of max.
I'm mounting a 3-12 scope on the rifle just for load development. I also have 180gr XTPs ordered from Midway, so will try those as well.
1976B.L.Johns.
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Are your cartridges all the same length?
Within 1 or 2 thousandths of an inch?
Trey Veston
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Pretty close. I can sort through and get groups of five that will be within 1 or 2 thousandths of each other. I have about 15 rounds that are all over the place in terms of OAL and crimp. I'll use those to get the scope on paper. It will be interesting to see just how much they will affect accuracy.
LV Gun
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I shoot a lot of 357 the one thing I notice with 357 brass is it needs to be trimmed and trimmed fairly often it likes to stretch. I have had the same issue with crimping consistently as you are having ,, trimming it always solves the problem. Hope this is of help.
35 Whelen
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@Charlie98 @DMW1116
The fire-lapping is being performed on my two Flat Top Blackhawk's; a .44 Special and a 45ACP/45 Colt. As Charlie said this is done in an effort to remove the tight spot in the barrel where it's screwed into the frame. I use Wheeler Bore Lapping Kit from Midway, beginning with 220 grit then finishing with 600. The end game is to have the cylinder throats the largest, as in .0005" larger in diameter than the bullets being used, then the rear of the groove diameter slightly enlarged when the tight spot is lapped out, then the barrel very slightly taper to the muzzle. Not only does this reduce and in many cases eliminate leading,, it also greatly increases accuracy.
Here are before/after photos of a Uberti Hombre .357 I did. I first cut the forcing to 11°, then fire-lapped. Last week I fired some of my plain-base bullets cast of air-cooled wheelweights over 1300 fps with zero leading.
Before-
After-
Hope my explanation is understandable.
35W
The fire-lapping is being performed on my two Flat Top Blackhawk's; a .44 Special and a 45ACP/45 Colt. As Charlie said this is done in an effort to remove the tight spot in the barrel where it's screwed into the frame. I use Wheeler Bore Lapping Kit from Midway, beginning with 220 grit then finishing with 600. The end game is to have the cylinder throats the largest, as in .0005" larger in diameter than the bullets being used, then the rear of the groove diameter slightly enlarged when the tight spot is lapped out, then the barrel very slightly taper to the muzzle. Not only does this reduce and in many cases eliminate leading,, it also greatly increases accuracy.
Here are before/after photos of a Uberti Hombre .357 I did. I first cut the forcing to 11°, then fire-lapped. Last week I fired some of my plain-base bullets cast of air-cooled wheelweights over 1300 fps with zero leading.
Before-
After-
Hope my explanation is understandable.
35W
35 Whelen
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The thread choke is, but it's also done to rifles to remove machining marks from the rifling. In fact you can see in the photos above that the machining marks were removed from the revolvers bore. I had a 1916 Mauser whose groove diameter went from .308" down to .305" about half way between the chamber and the muzzle. I fire-lapped the tight spot out which made it MUCH more accurate. Also did my Savage Axis II .223. Lapping (smoothing) rifle barrels really cuts down on copper fouling too.
Midway sells the Tubb Final Finish Bore Lapping System, which is what I used on the Savage Axis II.
35W
45/30-06OKIE
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So as part of our inventory-ing of stuff I forgot about our random bullets we've gotten for cheap over the past couple years and we have a plastic box with 54gr open tip flat base 22 call bullets?? 53.8gr to 54gr bullets. Odd as I thought it went 52gr to 55gr but maybe these are blems?
45/30-06OKIE
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Got a fair bit of 30 cal SPs and HPs but I sorted the SPs right now. Had a fair bit if 150gr and 180gr. Barely any 165gr.... sad, as I wanting to exclusively use those from now on for 30-06... oh well.
Left 150gr Middle 165gr Right 180gr.
Left 150gr Middle 165gr Right 180gr.
To aid shooters with old eyes that can no longer adjust enough to shoot iron sights. This also prevents an unfair advantage to the scope shooters by allowing only one power.
Used to be scopes of any type were banned from blackpowder hunts to maintain authenticity. Scoped blackpowder guns were only allowed during cartridge gun hunts. I guess enough blackpowder hunters were 'aging out' to motivate the fish & game dept to modify the rules enough to get them geezers back in the game. If only to get the harvest numbers back into the desired zone.
My guess. Don't know for certain.
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