Recent content by badaxeriverman

Sounds like it’s a pact!

Never tried any other loads in it since my first post. Was not even a thought on my priorty list. Maybe someday I try a different bullet. Just lost interest in the project since I found an accurate load I can use for deer hunting. The rifle will always be kept for a backup close range deep...

Just went out and checked my zero today on both this gun and my 22” 30-06 pump 7600. It was a zoo at the range today because deer hunting opens on Saturday for gun season. I was dead center and maybe a 1/4” to a half inch left from center at 100 yards when I checked the zero on the 35 Whelen...

Ive only shot one whitetail with a 90 grain ballistic tip. It drops deer faster than my 35 Whelen wih 180 graim hot cores. Slammed to the ground at the shot and never moved.

I'd be happy with at least 100 grain ballistic tip. A 105 or 110 would be great if they dont make the OAL to long so it will stabilize in a 243.

Id trade you for the ballistic tips for some of my cast 200 grain hollow points. I always wanted to try those. The 200 grain cast hollow points hammer deer. Id be using the partitions for bear in the 35 Whelen since you have them. Shot a few bear with 200 grain partitions out of my 300 RUM. I...

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...