I will do photos when I’m done. I am extremely happy with the way this is turning out.Man, we're gonna need to see pics when you're all done - this sounds phenomenal!
Yep. Not nearly as easy to deal with as an RCBS die since you can't drop the expender/decapper assy. out with the case.Stuck case?
Dang good groups man. I can't get mine smaller than .448.
Dude, other than the annealing part, I'm doing the same things. Though I do have a bunch of CCI primers. Lee 4-hole turret press, couldn't find Lee dies so I have Hornady dies. Recently bought Star and another brand of new brass. Maybe that will help, but at my age / eyes .448 may be as good as it gets with 6.5CM. I have done a 3/8" group with 223. But that's my tightest overall group.Imagine if I had halfway decent equipment, and was more consistent with my brass prep and loading! I use basic Lee or RCBS dies and I load on a turret press (I took out the indexing rod). Brass I use is 3 and 4 times fired, mixed headstamp, factory brass, that I anneal using a drill, deep socket, and handheld propane torch. Even though I try to be consistent in sizing, by full length sizing and bumping my shoulder back .0015- .0020, most of the time my measurements are all over the place! Probably because of the turret press, and the slop in the removable turrets. The scale I use for measuring powder is a Frankford Arsenal that I bought off Amazon that is not nearly as precise as I would like. And because of the components shortage, I have 4 different brands of primers, and 3 different 4350 powders that I have been trying to get load data for that shoots well in my rifle. I’ve got some of my loadings wrote down in a data log book, but I’m embarrassed to say, some of my data is on a post it note, stuck in the notes section of a Hornady reloading book! It’s pretty amazing the damn things hit the paper probably!
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Dude, other than the annealing part, I'm doing the same things. Though I do have a bunch of CCI primers. Lee 4-hole turret press, couldn't find Lee dies so I have Hornady dies. Recently bought Star and another brand of new brass. Maybe that will help, but at my age / eyes .448 may be as good as it gets with 6.5CM. I have done a 3/8" group with 223. But that's my tightest overall group.
Keep up the good work.
Thinking about primming them first then tumbling them to get the case lube off.
Not sure this will help to keep the walnut shell media out of the flash hole.
Or should I completely reload the bullet then tumble it?
I resize then tumble again before priming on my rifle rounds. I inspect the flash holes and use a pick to clear them if needed.I de-primed about 200 pieces of 223 brass. Have a couple hundred more to go. Thinking about primming them first then tumbling them to get the case lube off. Not sure this will help to keep the walnut shell media out of the flash hole. Or should I completely reload the bullet then tumble it?
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