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I've got one in a contender pistol. Fun, very accurate ....ez to make brass out of 3030. Shoots bullets from 120 to 154 very accurate. 1.5" groups all day long at 100 w/a 2.5-8 Leu on top. Muzzle break is built in...awful loud. I always thought I wanted a single shot rifle....kinda got one by...

Hornady and forestor will do it to their dies for a reasonable charge. But, you should contact them to be sure custom honing isn't on hold during these busy times. A lee collect die and redding body die make a very hard to beat combo too.

The etips w/a band only have one band...it won't affect seating neck tension at all. I load alot of Barnes bullets too and have never had neck tension trouble....not sure what you ran into there. Is it you feel the need to crimp or something?

Good write up! How the heck did you set up the bullet trap w/alternating layers of water and wet print?

Check out hogdon.com they have some very specific loads for the etip. In general most people say. 050 off the lands is a great place to start. Some of the newer etips have a band that will likely reduce start pressure a bit. I played w/the 150e tip a little and didn't find it finicky. I got...

The rcbs has been fine for me. There's lots of fancy stuff out there but i can't argue w/the rcbs. I too, try for near perfect sized cases before loading but a few still come out of the seating die w/ runnout. I also have a tru tool mounted On my bench to correct the few loaded cartridges...

Be careful w/that work up. Years ago a friend w/lots of play money had 2 300 wby's made up. One a lightwt w/freebore and one w/a "match" grade barrel and no freebore. We got a load for the freebore gun first and it was well within published wby load data and did fine. We dropped it back 3...

All you'd need to do is change the case capacity from the normal wby to the measured h2o capacity of the improved casing.

I highly recommend hogdons leverevolution powder for the 3030. It really gives my marlin a little extra speed, less pressure and burns really clean. My 20" marlin does 2174 fps w/the partition over 36 grains. Absolutely no pressure and at 100 yds 5 shot groups usually hover near 1" w/ at least...

I've seen posts where people believe its a twin to blc2 but w/the cleaner additive. I've just started playing with it in 7-08 and when I use blc2 as the powder in quickload my results are really close. If it truly is a specialty powder some of these news ones seem to react different in different...

I think alliant initially advertised it as a spherical powder. Its actually a small fairly dense kernal powder. I've played with it in quite a few casings. Its pretty clean burning but has no extra magical pressure reducing/velocity increasing Foo Foo. It is extremely close in burn rate to...

I'd love to know your progress...please keep us informed!

Fwiw...here's the best "wallet group" I think I've ever shot. You know the one you show your buddies over a beer...or 6! Anyhow the sad news is its only clocking about 2950 out of my tikka 300 win. But do I care.....not really. I'm 6'1" and it kicks like heck being with a light wt scope the...

I'm not a 264 guy but now that its come up I guess I remember that h1000 never comes up as a near top powder for alot of my magnum predictions and its a great powder for 7 mag on up for sure. That's why its always a great idea to compare ql to manuals and actual chrono results. I think in...

I've got 257, 270, 300, 340, 30378 weatherby. Never had a problem w/case growth or need of excessive trimming. I simply bump the shoulders. 002 or less. I use hornady, redding and Forster dies on these. I even use my 2506 #and 270 win lee collect dies to neck size the 257 and 270 wby...

One thing I "think" I've noticed and not liked when playing w/a wsm's was if you didn't knock the shoulder back at least .002-.003 when resizing for full power loads was substantial bolt lift ejecting the empty. It seemed to me perhaps a lot of friction by the massive shoulder area pressing on...

I can't see why shoulder shape would affect case stretch. I would put any problems simply on chamber dimensions. The craziest stretch I ever saw was a factory savage 300 win mag that stretched .025" from virgin dimension. As crazy as that was by resizing from there on out...only pushing the...

You have a great load to fall back on....... Now is a great time to keep moving forward w/more load development!

A trip over to hodgdon.com might also be a good idea...they have data for the 6.5 284.

There's a bunch of huntable bullets in that wt. Thanks to the 6.8 round. There's the 95 and 110 ttsx. There's the 100 and 110 accubond. The accubonds have really thick impressive jackets half way down. My boy had a 9 point buck get up in a thicket last year about 25 ft from where he...