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Ha ha :ROFLMAO: the dark art of reloading, off down the rabbit hole eh! Bullet comparator measuring from ogive is always best - bullet tip to case head measurements will always see variations even with plastic tipped bullets & especially with lead tipped. It's also likely that using standard...

Primer prices are now very high in UK anywhere from £14-£17 / 100 if you can find them. Most dealers here will now only sell you one or two hundred not like a couple of years ago when it was easy to buy 1000

The grub screw & knurled knob thread are the same - useful especially if you mess up the grub screw

Vihtavouri propellant is good stuff. I use Vit. N560 in my .25-06 & get great accuracy. It's pretty pricey here in UK at around £120/kilo - $150 approx. But that's around 2.2lbs.

Your $250 turns at a minimum into £300GBP here in UK - with carriage across the pond & UK tax & duty often shop pricing is way more than you pay in USA. We're at around £60/lb for propellant & around £150/1000 for primers. I was recently in Bass Pro in Colorado Springs & amazed how much less you...

I also use 46gns H4350 with my Mannlicher Classic Stutzen & a 123gn SST - gives me around 2800fps with a 22" barrel - very accurate too - Rem. 9 1/2 primer. I'm using Norma brass. Not quite at 0.36's but definitely not more than 0.5" (Mostly) :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: It's definitely the...

Due to EU 'REACH' regs in Europe many of the old IMR/Hodgdon/Alliant etc propellants are no longer available in UK. These manufacturers now have in place other REACH compliant propellants... though mostly I use Vihtavouri N550 or N550 depending on bullet/cartridge. For what I'm shooting here...

So in 2 weeks it's the 8-th Anniversary of the D-Day landings when so many gave their lives to free Europe. A lot has begun to happen in Normandy now & I know it will be packed there with many American's, British, French, German and other nationalities. I have friends there very near Utah Beach...

Gotta admit I don't worry too much about ES only where the bullets go & as long as they go the right place I'm not concerned. My MV doesn't change only to within a few fps & they do the job when they strike

Ha ha those cupboards must be hiding a lot eh! I wish I had that amount of space :ROFLMAO: No such luck at my place

Well, in a mad moment, I thought about tidying & organising it a bit better - but then realised I'd forget where I'd put everything if I moved stuff :ROFLMAO:

It's a very much under-rated cartridge Bob. I've shot 25-06 for around 30years & always loaded my own ammunition. I've never had any complaints about Norma brass & use it all the time... however I live in UK & it's always been pretty easy to get here. (Or it has been easy to get) I haven't...

After IMR4350 disappeared from the UK, I switched to Viht. N560 - brilliant in my 25-06Rem

https://www.henrykrank.com/reloading/powder/ For interest, - These are current UK prices - exchange rate is around £1 = $1.25

I can't imagine the reloading manual's tests would have used anything other than virgin brass & the brass would be at SAAMI/CIP dimensions. That's very different to the results you'd achieve with correctly sized brass to your specific rifle(s). MV/ME would be very different & they'd use lab...

Seems clear Norma (Plus other) 25-06 brass is in short supply in the USA - here in UK Norma is available & I use it exclusively. It's good brass & treated right with your case prep, it lasts ages, firing after firing. A big deal is not to oversize the brass. resize to 'Fired case headspace'...

I use a liquid graphite product called 'Dri Slide' - liquid to apply but dries quickly. Doesn't attract anything (It's not sticky) & works well

I've read & have a copy of 'The Man Eaters of Tsavo' by Colonel Patterson & of course it's more detailed than the movie. I've been to Africa (Many countries there) a lot of times man & boy... In both movies, the scenic views are much like those of when I first went in 1959. The game reserves...

Anyone seen the movies The Ghost & The Darkness - Val Kilmer & Michael Douglas - also, Out of Africa, Robert Redford & Meryl Streep

You have to remember published data is from testing under laboratory conditions. When you chrono, you're effectively 'Field testing' the results are never going to be the same as those produced under lab conditions. Also, the lab barrel is definitely not your barrel. My .243 Steyr Mannlicher...