That’s super cool! Nice job! Wish I was that tech savvy.View attachment 30554 Just finished putting the finishing touches on my load development spreadsheet/record. Kind of pleased with it. Can be printed on a single page and remain legible. I think.
Ugly as the data is, the spreadsheet works even if there are issues with the load.
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That’s super cool! Nice job! Wish I was that tech savvy.
Just finished putting the finishing touches on my load development spreadsheet/record. Kind of pleased with it. Can be printed on a single page and remain legible. I think.
Ugly as the data is, the spreadsheet works even if there are issues with the load.
Where is the group size or accuracy data?
Problem it's geologically slow and I'm not even drying it yet. I may have to fabricate something with a higher capacity.
Finally confirmed a suspicion raised by another forum member (one of two cannot remember which) regarding scales and the "settling" programs. Was having some problems with wide Extreme Spreads on speed and suspected that my scale was not as sensitive as I thought, so began making it standard practice, as I came close to weight, to remove and reset the pan on the scale after each time I trickled powder. In so doing I found that I frequently got weight increases that did not register before I removed and "resettled" the scale. Before I began this practice my .243 loads were averaging around 30-40 fps extreme spreads and mid teens to 20 fps STDEV.
Yesterday I chronoed the first loads using this new method and the results were beyond my expectations using Hornady brass, neck turned (-1/1000), annealed, using 87 gn. Hornady V-Max on a Forster Coax. Extreme Spread of 6 fps and STDEV of 2 fps
So, if you were doing it again would you even buy electric or just throw .5g low with a powder measure and trickle on the beam scale?
Probably, but that sounds like planning... ain't nobody got time for that.Nah, you need more brass to let it dry for a few days before you need it,
You make her sort some brass in exchange for using the bench? Tell her it’s kinda like putting the seat down, just something wives do out of respect for their husbands.View attachment 31282 View attachment 31281 It’s that time of the year again when my wife is reminded that she can’t argue with the convenience of having a bench, in its own room. In the house.
You make her sort some brass in exchange for using the bench? Tell her it’s kinda like putting the seat down, just something wives do out of respect for their husbands.
What is that vise block?
lol my wife said "you mean you have to PHYSICALLY put the bullet on the case???" I said "not if you let me get a progressive setup with a bullet and case feeder. It'll be a few thousand though"
It’s that time of the year again when my wife is reminded that she can’t argue with the convenience of having a bench, in its own room. In the house.
Have you bumped into any of the Maxxtech 9mm brass yet? They have a HUGE step inside the case, MUCH less internal volume than normal cases.I sorted about 4000 9mm brass to get rid of the crappy FM, Ammoland, and IMT head stamps. Then I loaded about 80 rounds just because I was there and the primers were in the tube.
I have quite a few perfecta .308 brass cases and theyre exactly as you have described. Which is surprising since theirWhat to do on a cold, rainy Saturday...
Processed another 400 pieces of 308 brass, mixed headstamps, range pickups. LC, FC, RP, MKE, Aquila, and Perfecta made up the majority. Also some ICC, WCC, F&S, BHA and a couple others.
I decided to compare weights, and the LC brass were all over the place. I could tell some had been shot in an HK or CETME, as the fluted chamber left marks on them. I ended up tossing most of these since rims had been abused and would not pass the case gauge test. Surprisingly, the weights of the Aquila and Perfecta brass were fairly consistent, and close to the same average weight of the LC. The RP brass averaged about 10gn less than the LC.
I don't know what I am going to do with this info, I just was curious.
Yeah, I was surprised as well.I have quite a few perfecta .308 brass cases and theyre exactly as you have described. Which is surprising since their
223 brass is pure shite
yep. American Eagle and Federal .223 cases that aren't LC are basically shite as well. Lots of runout and short trim lengths. No thanks, not with cheap LC out there. I can swage as a part of my case prepping.Yeah, I was surprised as well.
What also surprised me was that in .223, the federal cases for the most part are shorter than the trim-to length, while some of the LC brass need a lot of trimming. In .308, I saw the reverse.
I have not seen any of that but I'll add that to the list of headstamps to check for. Thanks.Have you bumped into any of the Maxxtech 9mm brass yet? They have a HUGE step inside the case, MUCH less internal volume than normal cases.
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They ought to be shot!Have you bumped into any of the Maxxtech 9mm brass yet? They have a HUGE step inside the case, MUCH less internal volume than normal cases.
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Maxxtech doesn't bother me, but I'm not loading major. Many accounts of seperations leaving the ring even in minor though.I have not seen any of that but I'll add that to the list of headstamps to check for. Thanks.
Dumped about a pound and a half of Autocomp all over the floor