Recent content by badaxeriverman

You and me both brother! If you needed something to trade for those .308 180 grain versions and have no use for them let me know.

Not to mention when I first started reloading probably 25+ years ago they were cheaper than Hornady! Also on everybody’s shelf on the planet. Wherever I walked into, they were sitting on the shelf in bulk. Now they’re three times as much as Hornady Red tips so it made my decision pretty easy to...

I’ll have to pull some of those out and try and full length size them like it’s a fired piece of brass and then try and load a bullet in them and measure and report back. I think I ran into those casings the other day. I think there’s only 7 to 12 of them left. I can remember when I go to seat a...

I pin tumbled them. It works better than corn cob media. They’re polished inside and out and even in the primer holes. Made zero difference. The brass necks imo have stretched so many times that they are too thin and are not getting sized down.

Thanks it’s been a few years since it happened, but I’m pretty sure I did that and it was pretty thin versus a brand new case.

I annealed a couple of them to the point where they were so soft the case necks crushed when I seated a bullet in them. I figured they were springing back after I initially annealed them. Nope wasn’t the issue. I’m guessing that the neck wall thickness is too thin from several firings and full...

I know this is a super old thread, but I just looked it up today on a whim because a few years back I had the same issue with 300 RUM brass. It was some old brass I bought new in 1999 or 2000. I’ve been fired several times and I don’t remember the round count. I annealed and FL sized in my RCBS...

I swore off federal primers after I had a half a dozen that wouldn’t ignite years ago. After looking at my RCBS shell holder the next time around during the loading process, I found I had a bunch of greasy grimy funk in the primer hole. Cleaned the hole and no more FTFs.

Bad primer…or you just didn’t see it deep enough. I’ve been guilty as charged not seating primer deep enough, and then they fire on the second try after you seated them the first time around trying to fire them. Glad to hear you dropped the deer in its tracks! There’s no way I would ever shoot...

I still have to run my load through a chronograph out of that short barrel Remington 600 with the 90’s. All I know is it broke through ribs and a shoulder for me at 15 to 18 yards loaded HOT! Running them fast gives them a major chance to fail and come apart. I would use them all day long on any...

I run them over 4250fps with long barreled 243. I also shot a few Pronghorn with 125 grain ballistic tips at a 4000 fps muzzle velocity out of my 300 RUM. Run them as fast as you want.

I shot two deer with a 35 Whelen the last week. Both ran like they weren’t even hit! First one blew out the heart and it ran 15 yards and tipped over and the other one I double lunged it and took the whole top of the heart off and it went 60 to 75 yards like it wasn’t hit and fell over. New gun...

Is there a link to click on to see that study? I tried to find it on the Internet without any luck.

Tried the .308,180 grain version in my 30-06 and 260 grain version in my 375 RUM when they first came to market. I posted many times here on them with not having good luck. The first year I used them on was a buck that came limping onto my property with a broken leg that someone shot on opening...

I have a brand new box I'll have to ladder test them. It's almost like those hot cores are exploding as soon as they hit deer. You would think they would drop them a little faster than what I've seen in the last week. I do have a box of the 200 grain Hornady projectiles that they use in the...