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From my new FIL, years before I started reloading:
"Save your brass, you can reload it some day."
"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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Learned by guess and by golly. Paid attention to the Lyman manual. Didn’t know anyone to get tips from. The inna net was still 30 years in the future for me. Lot of the tips posted here I learned along the way and they are mostly fundamental methodology for me.
The small mistakes I made learning from books and doing myself don't come close to some of the B/S I've seen on the internet.
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Pull the decapper pin on your resizing die when resizing, then reinstall and size neck on down stroke instead of up. For some reason I'm having a hard time visualizing this. Can you explain further? What he means is remove the expander ball for the sizing operation, then install and push the sized neck over the expander ball. Pushing instead of pulling over the ball can reduce runout but it is an extra step. Thank you, you explained it the way I should have.
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I am a novice reloader at most, but found out two things real quick, both of which have already been mentioned:
Keep one damn type of powder at the bench and/or in the hopper at a time. One, not two. ONE.
Load density matters.
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Always visually check the powder level in each case.
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Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
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When load testing, if two shot are not together shooting another won't make them better.
When the tailgate drops the BS stops.
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Barsness’ article on loading for the 7x57.
Trust the chronograph and not the book.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Pull the decapper pin on your resizing die when resizing, then reinstall and size neck on down stroke instead of up. For some reason I'm having a hard time visualizing this. Can you explain further? What he means is remove the expander ball for the sizing operation, then install and push the sized neck over the expander ball. Pushing instead of pulling over the ball can reduce runout but it is an extra step. Some graphite on case necks makes things run a lot smoother ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/BhSLXil.jpg)
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Pull the decapper pin on your resizing die when resizing, then reinstall and size neck on down stroke instead of up. For some reason I'm having a hard time visualizing this. Can you explain further? What he means is remove the expander ball for the sizing operation, then install and push the sized neck over the expander ball. Pushing instead of pulling over the ball can reduce runout but it is an extra step. Thank you, you explained it the way I should have. I feel like I shouldn't have to ask, being a reloader for 25+ years, but how does doing this in 2 steps with the same die rather than in one step with said die, end up in improved ammo? Am I missing something? 🤔
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When loading 38 Specials w/Bullseye in a loading block, double check powder drops 6 times... Never use shotgun powder in non shotguns ! Dont be a cheap f~ck ! Joking I hope. You've neve loaded Unique, Red Dot, Blue Dot , American Select, etc in handguns? Please.
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Well, except for hollow-base wadcutters loaded backwards for self-defense. (Of course, they didn't have a pointy end to start with, so I guess that is moot.)
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Pull the decapper pin on your resizing die when resizing, then reinstall and size neck on down stroke instead of up. For some reason I'm having a hard time visualizing this. Can you explain further? What he means is remove the expander ball for the sizing operation, then install and push the sized neck over the expander ball. Pushing instead of pulling over the ball can reduce runout but it is an extra step. Thank you, you explained it the way I should have. I feel like I shouldn't have to ask, being a reloader for 25+ years, but how does doing this in 2 steps with the same die rather than in one step with said die, end up in improved ammo? Am I missing something? 🤔 I too could use additional explanation. Does the metal sizing of the case body work against that of the neck if done in one step? In either case, the expander ball has to go both in, and out, and would size on the in stroke, then maybe modify this on the outstroke in one-step, but not on 2 step?
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Jimy: I agree with you on the wonderfulness of Imperial Sizing Wax (I think its called Redding Sizing Wax now?).
But the MOST "sage advice" I ever got was from my reloading and Varminting friend Steve, nearly 50 years ago when he said (and would often repeat) these words - "reloading causes questions"!
Hold into the wind
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More primers will end up in the primer tray with a straw below the shell holder ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/0rd97xG.jpg)
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Now that is a good idea 700LH....Thanks for that!
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+1.....hate stepping on spent primers.....in socks. Now that is a good idea 700LH....Thanks for that!
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
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Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.
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Pull the decapper pin on your resizing die when resizing, then reinstall and size neck on down stroke instead of up. For some reason I'm having a hard time visualizing this. Can you explain further? What he means is remove the expander ball for the sizing operation, then install and push the sized neck over the expander ball. Pushing instead of pulling over the ball can reduce runout but it is an extra step. Thank you, you explained it the way I should have. I feel like I shouldn't have to ask, being a reloader for 25+ years, but how does doing this in 2 steps with the same die rather than in one step with said die, end up in improved ammo? Am I missing something? 🤔 I too could use additional explanation. Does the metal sizing of the case body work against that of the neck if done in one step? In either case, the expander ball has to go both in, and out, and would size on the in stroke, then maybe modify this on the outstroke in one-step, but not on 2 step?
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1. Keep your head in the game.
2. Start low -- work up slow.
3. If you want a 300 win mag, buy one instead of hot-rodding your 30-06.
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"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov 4:23)
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Never grind on metal parts in a vice attached to your reloading table. Lost an eyebrow like that. Thought we had gotten nuked by Russia LMFAO!!
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