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So Ms. Santa let me buy, I meen gifted me a new 4 hole auto indexing turret press. After a bit of setup trial and error I cranked out an astonishing amount of 9mm ammo today. Got me thinking about loading rifle ammo through it. In thinking through the prosses I got hung up on how to remove the...

What is the recommended die cleaning procedure. basically I have ben just rubbing the inside of my dies with a Q tip and rubbing alcohol to get any excess lube or tumbling dust out. Is that enough, or is their a better way of cleaning?

Hello again everyone. I recently started loading for my Thompson center 25-06. set up my dies per manufactures instructions and loaded a few before I got my Wilson gage. They all functioned well, I ran a couple of load ladders... So my case gage showed up today and I was shocked to find the head...

A recent post has me thinking about the media I use to tumble with. I use Lyman walnut with rouge to clean before resizing, then Hornady corncob to polish. Seeing as walnut and corn cob are also used in sandblasting would a black glass or soda media work well for tumbling? For top end would this...

Looking to start loading for my 35 rem. I am using lee press, hornady dies and rcbs shell holder (I know, was all I could find...). Looking at powder choices, I have on hand IMR4895 IMR4064. Primers I Have CCI BR2. Picked up some 35Cal .358" 200gr RN-interlock. Once fired Hornady cases trimmed...

Was thinking about getting a new upper for my Olympic Arms flattop 16" chambered in 556. Are their any limitations on what type of upper I can put on it? commercial or mill spec? Thinking of going to a longer barrel or different cal. and want to build a separate upper for it.

Hello again every one. I've been reloading for my 308 for a bit now and have mostly used Winchester brass for my 700p. I picked up some LC brass from the store and loaded some up. I noticed that even after full length sizing my bolt closes much harder on the LC brass. The reloads shot ok so I...

Planning to start loading for 30-378 weatherby. I haven't loaded magnum cartages yet. looking for advise on powder, bullet, brass. any thing special I should be looking at?

After sizing and tumbling to remove lube I was inspecting my cases and noticed a ring just above the shoulder. Is this an impending failure? I can’t feel any crease with my finger nail but as you can see from the photo the cases in the middle have a black ring that looks like the start of a...

Any one have one? How would you rate it? Aftermarket parts? Grips, Barrel, Trigger assembly, Mags... Can it be repaired if something breaks, or is their upgrades?

Hello again everyone, I am planning to start loading for my 9mm Zastava M70a. looking for advise, I have loaded many bottlenecked cartages (.308-5.56...). this is my first try at straight wall pistol loads. I have some concerns with seating depth and belling and crimping. is their a...

I was going through the load data for 25-06 getting ready to load my first batch. I noticed that the data for imr 4895 shows 42gr as start, max 45gr (hogdon site). That seems to leave the case fairly empty. is this normal? I guess im used to loading 308 cases that get pretty full. im going with...

Looking at my hornady book for 125 gr sst load, it shows 46.4 gr of imr 4895 @2900 fps. Pretty Shure that will be squishing down on the powder when I seat the bullet. Any thing I should know before trying this out? I will be using lc brass, cci br2 primers 125gr sst bullet. shooting out of...

So I have got into the habit of trimming my .308 brass to 2.005 after each sizing. My question is, should I let them grow to max before trimming? What affect would it have on the accuracy. Would longer brass support the bullet better if I'm loading closer to the lands?

The mag release on my zastava m70a pistol seems to be quite finicky. When I press the mag release its a 50/50 if it will come out. Any thoughts? Gun is new >100 rounds, relatively clean, runs good until reload.

Any suggestions for zastava m70a holster? Also looking for mags. Local gun stores all say "zastava? tokarev?"

Minnesota finally decided that I can own a suppressor. I will be applying for my stamp soon:D. Supersonic v/s subsonic loads in .308 Win suppressed? To take full advantage of the suppressor at 100yrd targets, would it be wise to load subsonic? Only looking to shoot at small game targets like...

Starting to load for my 9mm. I bought a umc 250 round mega pack and shot 200 of them. Brought home the cases, and as I usually do, started to de-cap before tumbling. The first case broke my universal de-capping pin. Is their a better way to de-cap pistol cases? or did I just have literally a...

My local store was out of 4895, so I picked up some bl-c(2) for my 223 loads. any thing I should know or do different with the ball powder vs the stick? obviously I need to run a ladder again, any one got a good starting recipe or pet load with blc2 lc brass wsr primer and 50-55 gr fmj?

I picked up a bag of 223 once fired brass from the range. Their is a lot of crimped primer pockets. Is a primer pocket reamer sufficient to remove the crimp or do I need a swaging die for my press. Just to try it out before I posted this I chucked the reamer up in my cordless drill and reamed...