And yet, my Browning XBolt has a plastic rotary mag and it's slick as can be. There are no excuses for Ruger (I used to have one and I'm familiar with this issue).
Walked into my LGS this evening and they had more powder in stock than I have seen in a long, long time. I don't know if that's in anticipation of price increases, or it just happened to be that way. They had about a third of that when I was there last week.
@ReloadKy heads up for you. 🙂
I trim before every load, but I would need some real convincing that this unit is significantly better than my $170 FA trimmer (which I bought for $100).
It was always intended to be first and foremost a regional cartridge, to compete with the 350 Legend in a lever platform. The 350 has been around now for about 15 years or so, and there are now folks using it in places where straight wall cartridges are not required. As long as 35 cal bullets...
I remember you talking about that, Guy. I guess I just haven't found the sweet spot for mine yet. Some loads that were ok, just not good enough to get me excited. I've heard some good things about these FTX bullets, tho, so thought I'd give them a try.
Odd that none of the brass makers are...
Oh, I always do those things. My issue here is, the reduced case capacity makes it impossible to get the maximum potential from the round, per the published load data.
I'm currently creating some brass for my 360 Buckhammer by using resized 30-30 brass. And what I'm finding is that there is a significant difference in case capacity between Remington and Winchester cases. For example, using 3 Remington cases that were resized and trimmed, the average weight is...
Anything to make that process easier is a good thing. I've got the Frankford Arsenal case prep center and it makes things much easier than the old lathe type, even with using a drill to power it. I've even got some adapters to use for my straight-wall cases in 45-70, 45 Colt, and 360 BH.
It's not the same guy, but the data is very similar. The Reloading Assistant is basically a compilation of the published data from the powder manufacturers. I'm not sure if it also has info from the bullet manufacturers or not. I'll have to check that out.
Always good to have plenty of data.