Tumble your brass in corncob after annealing. The annealing tarnish is very sticky!
The other option is to brush the necks but I would suggest keeping the natural carbon in the necks.
For some reason tumbling in corncob takes the edge off of the annealing tarnish but keeps the carbon layer.
The barrel actually floated during trial fitting pre-bedding. I left two spots of the wood un touched when I ground out for the epoxy, I (installed 3/8 stainless steel tubing for pilars while I was at it.)
I wrapped three wraps of electrical tape around the barrel to center it and to insure...
When I was hunting as kid I used to look up at my Dad carrying his 700 30-06, he was my hero back then.
My chores were to do brass prep so we could load when he got home from work.
When he passed away my brother got his rifle, cut the stock down and rebarrel it for his young kids. A noble thing...
That's the thing, I'm not going to use it.
I don't want to work up a load with something that won't last the barrel life.
I have 7977, 4955, and 8133.
Wish I knew someone who needs them and close enough to trade.
Wish you weren't 3/4 the way across America I'd trade something for some 8133.
8133 came out in the middle of the barrel life of my first 28 Nosler barrel. That barrel is gone and I have pounds left over.
This is the very reason I've stayed clear of every PRC cartridge. Unless you chamber a barrel in an Alex Wheeler reamer your going to have problems.
Makes the 7mm Remington magnum look pretty good.
I spray super77 adhesive on cardboard with cheap tablecloth paper adhered to it. Then put 3/4 orange labels outlined with sharpie and 1" stencil.
I'm pretty particular about my targets, but I'm also cheap. Shows up really good at 200 yards.
My experience with Reloder 25 is it is slightly slower burning than Rl26 in bigger cases.
I have two barrels now that love it.
30 Nolser with 200gr Berger Hybrid and 300wm with Berger 185 Hybrid.
The 30 Nolser is about 98% case fill. The 300wm is compressed at about 105% but this barrel...
Are you sure they're going thirty eight thousand fps?
I've loaded 130ttsx in 300wsm at 3500 fps with rl15 in a 24" barrel. I'm sure 300wm could top 3450 with out overpressure.
I have been wanting loading them in one of my 300wm for a long time, just haven't got around to it. I'd probably...
Maybe coincidence but my 7wsm loves Berger 150gr and Reloder 23 with gm210m primers.
However I bought a bunch of 8lb jugs of rl23 when it was $28 a pound, not $60 plus shipping, tax and hazmat lol.
" buy what you can when you can" is the very reason.
I'm fortunate enough to have slowly acquired many many years of components when prices were down because demand was down.