What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Zombie Steve]

Might have been a squib, might have made it out. Certainly wouldn't have cycled the gun.

You should be proud... takes a while to do that to a 45 case.

[Great-Kazoo]

Might have been a squib, might have made it out. Certainly wouldn't have cycled the gun.

You should be proud... takes a while to do that to a 45 case.

Depends if it's his, or from a range brass pick up. I stopped buying range pick up some time ago, after weeding out 30-40% failed or soon to fail cases.

[Hoser]

Loaded up a bit of 6mmAR (6 Grendel) ammo last night so I could do some accuracy testing after todays IDPA Match. This is the 22 inch upper that AKA-Spook built for me about a year ago.

There is no decent data out there for the 6mm AR with Varget and 105gn bullets. I am using pointed Berger 105 Hybrids.

Seeing as how Varget and RL-15 are about the same burn rate wise, I decided to throw caution to the winds and risk it.

I started out with 26.5 gns and went up to 27.9 gns. Being uncharted territory, I went up in 0.3 gn increments after I hit 27 gns.

The 27.6 and 27.9 ammo grouped well (half MOA-ish for five shots at 100) with no pressure.

I am going to load up some single rounds with .3 gns more just to find out when I start hitting pressure and maybe put them over a chrono.

My old load was 26.5 gns of Vhit N540 but that powder burns pretty hot and hard on barrels. I hope Varget will have decent velocity as it seems the accuracy is there already.

[Great-Kazoo]

Working through some 200gr lead HP 45 acp, with 5gr Unique.

[Irving]

When you guys are describing neck tension, are describing how tight (force) the tension is, or are you describing some other measurement?

[Slapps74]

When you guys are describing neck tension, are describing how tight (force) the tension is, or are you describing some other measurement?

The difference between what the bullet measures and what the neck of the case measures. Example, the neck on my 300BLK measures .295 and the bullet measures .308 hence the .013 "neck tension"

[rondog]

Rarely post here, seems like I'm always doing something in there. Cleaning brass, trimming brass, casting bullets, powder-coating bullets, stuffing cases, boxing, stacking, etc. Wife says reloading is all I do. Hey, that damn Oreck is hers.....

[stodg73]

Cleaned up and vacuumed the floor again. Tumbled some brass...

[Tim K]

I loaded 450 rounds of precision .223 for the Team Safari on a single stage press, weighing every charge with the Chargemaster. Barf.

[Hoser]

I loaded 450 rounds of precision .223 for the Team Safari on a single stage press, weighing every charge with the Chargemaster. Barf.

That sounds like no fun at all.