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Beam scales are accurate and reliable, my largest complaint would be the speed. Takes me an hour to hour and a half to accurately weigh out and charge 50 cases by hand.

I left my bow in the case this year. 7 Rem Mag is coming out to play on the WY plains! 243 is tagging along as backup. 180gr Eld-M in the 7 mag, 105gr Hornady hpbt in the .243 with healthy charges of H1000 in both.

Anyone here using one? Thoughts? I’m getting tired of throwing charges manually and weighing on a balance beam. I have electric scales but I don’t find them trustworthy and they aren’t saving me any time.

I’ll take it! Only one slight problem, I have the money sitting in a foreign account that’s been frozen due to a misunderstanding. I will need about 10k to travel there in person and get everything sorted out. At that point…. I will gladly purchase this RL26 from you! Lol

Since you can see that the full length of the neck isn’t being sized, I would be really surprised if the shoulder was anywhere close to being “bumped”. I am not surprised that they chamber just fine as I have many firings on cases that have never had the shoulder set back.

Looks pretty good to me! Are you going to shoot some groups next? If I wasn’t so deep in H1000…I’d definitely be trying Grand out.

I never got into the unicorn dust myself but if you did, I hope you stacked it deep! I did run through a pound of RL16 which I found to be fairly decent. I won’t be losing any sleep over the situation though….

Have you seen the load data for the .277 85gr e-tip? I’d bet that’s a deer busting son of a gun!

Your 270 load sounds pretty stout…plenty to get the job done for sure! 7mag is still a step above though. Figure 140gr at 3250fps, 150gr at 3150fps and 160gr at 3050fps. Reloads vs reloads, I’m pushing 180gr at 3000fps in my 7 mag.

I’m interested to see the data but because of the 18” barrel, my guess is that it won’t be much better than a 7mm-08.

I’ve found 7828ssc to be pretty good. Not worth $50-$60/lb to me personally. Not sure I would pay that price for any IMR powder honestly. Hodgdon does because they can and fortunately for me, I don’t have to pay those prices. Edit: Yes, H1000 was the one for me that made IMR7828 irrelevant...

IMR 7828ssc is another good powder for 95-105gr bullets with the .243, it looks like you have something that will get you started though.

I at least check the headspace on new brass and neck size them. If you plan on full length sizing then yeah you should size new brass.

I’m sure by now that you realize something is seriously wrong. It’s not supposed to be this difficult. As for removing the expander button from the die….that’s pretty common but if you do that, you’re going to have to expand the necks in a separate operation with an expander mandrel. You can’t...

I feel like part of your problem is the turret press but I could be wrong. I’ve only ever used a single stage but I’ve also never had problems like you are experiencing. I’ve never heard of the loctight method you are using and for sure haven’t tried that myself so I can’t say how accurate that...

Especially with bushing dies…

You know that the headspace gauges don’t even have shoulders on them right? Yes, that allows the shoulder to possibly blow forward until it hits the shoulder in the chamber. The false “neck shoulder” helps and so would fire forming with a bullet lightly jammed into the lands. The guys that full...

.223/LC 5.56/.247”/SAAMI/ fired is .254” .243/Win/.272”/SAAMI?/fired is .278” .243/Lapua/.273”/SAAMI?/fired is .278” 7mm-08/Win/.309”/SAAMI?/ fired is .317” 7mm-08/308 starline/.315”/SAAMI?/fired is .317”( Works but should probably shave these necks) 7mm REM Mag/Win/.310”/SAAMI?/fired is .313”

OK, yeah…I was mostly wondering what the difference in accuracy was between the turned and unturned Norma.

I’m confused….shocking right? You’re last post, 2nd pic “unturned Norma 76.4 gr 3 shot group” looks exactly like your first post “ I’m confused….shocking right? You’re last post, 2nd pic “unturned Norma 76.4 gr 3 shot group” looks exactly like your first post “In the first picture, with Lapua ...