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I Powder coating them and Tumbled the coating on in a Tupperware container. I now mainly use clear powder coating for all my rifle rounds because it coats as smooth as glass. Figure it’s “mentally” more “aerodynamic” with the smooth clear finish. Eventually, I’ll try and get them to feed in my...

I’ve always had extremely good luck with their brass, but I’ve gotten a lot of the old bags as stated above. The stuff I won’t buy is federal. Too many cracked cases after once fired I’ve seen since I started getting into reloading 25 years ago. I remember buying one bag of 223 during the...

I tell you to try the Speer 180 grain hot core. I’ve shot a few deer with them out of my 35 Rem. I also just loaded some at Winchester velocities out of my Whelen to use this year. Pretty tough bullet. I crimp my 336, 35 Remlever gun using a lee factory crimp dye. Also use my own casted 200...

It doesn’t shock me that it’s taking so long. I sent them a 1000 count brick of browning re branded 1260 fps 33 grain hollow points a couple months ago and haven’t heard back yet other than they said eventually they’ll send me a check for a refund. I opened one of the 500 count boxes in the...

I remember the first time I got drawn for black bear. Out of 16 black bear trees that year and shot I only saw two drop stone cold dead… and that’s both with 300 rum. One with a 180 grain ballistic tip and mine with a 180 Scirrocco. They are wicked calibers with the right projectile. I remember...

Wish I would’ve grabbed the 338 at the time. It would fit between the 300 and the 375 in my cabinet…lol

I have loaded my BCA upper with 1/8 twist with them. Best groups came from H4895 and varget around 42.2 grain range if I remember with both powders. Was getting around .3”’s with both at best at 100 yards. Found an old target. My one and nine twist 22 inch heavy barrel BCA upper shoots just...

If you go with a pencil barrel version like the factory 700s just be aware it’s pretty common to print two in the same hole and then the third one is normally a flyer most of the time because the barrel heats so quickly. I’ve even thrown mine in an HS precision stock and had it cryogenically...

I still haven’t bought a box and a half of mine. Hoping to find a few more boxes that’ll probably last me a lifetime since I won’t target practice with them and just load them for hunting and zero the gun into them.

I just use a spiral notebook like you do and then keep it in a binder. I normally cut out my best groups like report cards and glue on to a page and write down all my load data. Been doing it for over 25 years and the binder is still going strong along with the notebook but it’s getting pretty full.

I got lucky and bought a bag of 100 brand new Remington’s from a member for about 60 bucks. A few years back still have a few new in the bag. I figured if I couldn’t find them, I was just gonna run some 30 odd six brass or some of the apparent cases through my 35 Rem FL sizing die. Normally...

Good to hear I don’t have any of the regular 180 grain partitions. I do have some 200 grain. Never really worked upload data for them, but loaded them with a random charge to use over bait bear hunting and they worked awesome. I think they shot an inch group at 25 yards with my random load…lol...

I bought a Dillon super swage 600 years ago. I can tell you I have to spin my brass around twice with my lake city 556 and I still get primer that go in harder than heck. I think you almost have to experiment with that wager to get it to work properly. I remember the first time I tried it and I...

Yep, they paint those to identify their magnum primers. I had some from 25 years ago that are purple. I had a box to a box and a half laying around but I gave to my buddy because I bought a few bricks of CCI for $39 during the toilet paper and primer panic.

Yep, I remember when the Accubond first came out and Remington…or Nosler… showed a video shooting a huge grizzly bear with a 300 rum and 180 grain accubond in the drop tracks! I was all excited and figured I had to order them… until I tried them on deer that year. Ballistic tips are my...

I’m sure that bullet would work awesome for a huge grizzly or anything else you’re trying to shoot from one to another! I’m jealous of that!!!..wish I’d been there. Did it , done it! I have some of those “zipedoes” I traded for along with a bunch of old screw style partitions that are still in...

Some guys love them some guys hate them. You hit them in the right spot with ANY bullet and it’s gong to kill anything you aim at. I just like a little bit more accurate bullet in my gun and they don’t prove accurate in mine and they also don’t expand like other people who are hsbe luck with...

I learned a long long time ago that shooting bullets in water filled milk jugs is way too hard of a media versus thin skin game. It's closer to shooting into a brick wall than it is an animal in my opinion. Its f un to do just to catch your bullets for show and tell...but thats about all water...

I thought the same and just did it because I was going to run Cast. Never had a gun that wouldn’t shoot until this one and I’ve owned hundreds of firearms. Glad I did so I at least now know what’s going on to fix the issue. I’ll be measuring ALL every one of my jacketed .358” projectiles before...

I had some undersized hornady .358’s that measured at the other day at a consistent .357”. I also have a new box that undersized and measured the same at .357” so probably just came undersized from factory. I traded for them and didn’t know they were seconds till I found the note packed inside.