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What did you do at your reloading bench today?

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by DsGrouse » Sat Jan 04, 2025 4:08 pm

I loaded nearly 100 rounds of 350 legend today.
Roze 158 jhp sized to .356
Sierra 155 JSP .355
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Second batch.
Sierra 125 JSP sized to .356
Bulk pack 135 FMJ .355
Sierra 140grn JHP sized to .356
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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by DsGrouse » Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:45 am

I ended up loading a 3rd ladder to the sierra 155 JSP pro hunters and a few more sight in rounds.

I do not like the winchester brass. It's the most finicky and wonky brass I've ever had the displeasure of working with. All the once-fired federal was gtg, but the Winchester stuff, new and once fired, was bunk.

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by Mags » Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:19 pm

DsGrouse wrote:
Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:45 am
I ended up loading a 3rd ladder to the sierra 155 JSP pro hunters and a few more sight in rounds.

I do not like the winchester brass. It's the most finicky and wonky brass I've ever had the displeasure of working with. All the once-fired federal was gtg, but the Winchester stuff, new and once fired, was bunk.
I haven't noticed that. But then all my brass is a few years old.
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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by DsGrouse » Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:59 pm

Loaded 50 rounds of blue bullets 220 grain spire points in 300 black out. This is a new bullet for me. I started my ladder test at 9.6 grains of 1680 and worked up to 10.4. I'll have to see how they shoot later this week.

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Post by DsGrouse » Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:30 pm

Update, velocity averages.
9.6 851 FPS
9.8 875 FPS
10.0 894 FPS
10.2 903 FPS
10.4 942 FPS

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Post by Vaquero » Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:28 pm

DsGrouse wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:30 pm
Update, velocity averages.
9.6 851 FPS
9.8 875 FPS
10.0 894 FPS
10.2 903 FPS
10.4 942 FPS
Which is the most accurate?
And at what distance were you shooting?, if checking accuracy at the same time.

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by DsGrouse » Mon Jan 06, 2025 3:04 pm

Vaquero wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:28 pm
DsGrouse wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:30 pm
Update, velocity averages.
9.6 851 FPS
9.8 875 FPS
10.0 894 FPS
10.2 903 FPS
10.4 942 FPS
Which is the most accurate?
And at what distance were you shooting?, if checking accuracy at the same time.

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The node at 10.2 was the most accurate one. It's not likely I will keep that one. I want to push these up to 1050-1072. I'm hoping there is a node there.

Seven of the same shots in a large hole, 3 fliers. mostly me. distance 70 yds.

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by DsGrouse » Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:28 pm

Second batch.
10.6 to 11.4 grains of powder.
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I went and added all my Chrono averages to my GRT files. I tuned the initial pressures to bring the velocities within spec. That told me to get a FPS around 1050-1075, I would need to make a couple of further steps. So, I made two additional rows to test.
11.6 and 11.8 grains of powder.
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The GRT model is showing max pressure of 22.28k with a 11.8 load

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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by 5shot » Mon Jan 06, 2025 11:18 pm

I cranked out a few .45 ACP's on the Hornady AP. It came out of the box badly out of time but after the dreaded reading of instructions :lol: she's running like a watch now. As you can see....my lair is getting a leetle bit crowded. :D
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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?

Post by The Happy Kaboomer » Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:06 pm

Nothing...............Went rabbit hunting

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