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Starting ingredients: 700X powder 115gn Hornday FMJ RN, Hodgdon said 3.9-4.2gn 124gn Winchester FMJ RN, Hodgdon said 3.0-3.6gn CCI Small Pistol primers Federal cases (factory "American Eagle" ammo, once-fired). All bullets seated to fractionally short of published OAL. Results: 1)115gn, 3.1gn...

Hi, Long time no see, but FINALLY managed to get out to the shed after a long delay due to work, weather and life in general getting in the way. Let's reload some 9mm Parabellum (Luger)! I have dies, bullets, primers, powder, fired cases, and a recipe. My press is an RCBS single stage Partner...

Okay, after a long absence because of plenty of other things that got in the way, I'm about to take the plunge and start loading for 9mm Parabellum (i.e. Luger). I have all the ingredients, I have minimum and maximum load data for my powder and bullets (directly from the mouths of the bullet...

My shotshell reloading hobby means I have red dot, 700X and even a jar of American Select at hand. My immediate availability projectiles (not yet bought) are Hornady 115 gn and Winchester 124gn jacketed (FMJ in both cases IIRC). I do not as yet have brass (can scavenge) or primers. Does anyone...

Choices seem to be boiling down to XDm vs. M&P. in 9mm Parabellum (Luger) right now. First of all, I am in Canada, so 10-shot magazine maximum. Also, carry/self-defence considerations don't enter into the equation. Second, calibre - 9mm is ballistically adequate for the purposes I have in mind...

Shot with a Savage Axis II and 3-9X scope from a front rest. Recipe 1: per Barnes reloading manual, maximum load (worked up carefully as per usual methods), over 36gn Varmint Grenades with BR-4 primers, Winchester twice-fired, neck-resized cases. The groups (four shots each) hovered around 1...

This kit comes with a vibratory tumbler (advertised capacity 350 x .223 Rem), a rotary media separator with plastic bucket (convenient!), a bag of corncob media and a small bottle of brass polish, and is advertised in Cabelas (Canada) three most recent catalogues, including the one I just got...

Working from Hornady's reloading manual, #9, and wanting to conserve my stocks of Varget as long as possible, I settled on IMR 3031 as a powder which would at least be compatible with both .223 Rem and .303 British, and I set to working the former up with 55 grain Hornady Vmax bullets, so as to...

Looking for a good First Load for my new .223, I turned to Lyman's 49th and Hornady's 9th. Lyman lists the 36gn Barnes Varmint Grenade as wanting (insert loads here) and a COAL of 2.240 inches. Wow!, I say, comparing data against the Hornady book - that's exactly the same recommended COAL as...

Going projectile shopping soon and would love to hear what's the heaviest I should go for and what won't work. IIRC the rifle has a 1:9 twist.

The cost and availability issues of buying factory fresh brass where I am mean that it is both easier and cheaper to buy bargain-price ammo and shoot it for the cartridge cases (and the practice). I'm not bothered if any particular brand I pick to do this doesn't shoot worth a damn when compared...

First of all, let me say that I accept all risk associated with what I did & no correspondence will be entered into on that. What happened? Well, I'd recently found a load I thought might work, so having just got a Classic Cast Turret Press and a Perfect Powder Measure care of you know which...

What I thought I wanted was a Savage Axis in .223 Remington, after having also handled the Thompson-Center Venture and the Tikka T3. I had heard whispers that a new Axis with an Accu-trigger was coming out soon, and would be worth the wait (can anyone verify this?). However, what should drop...

So I am contemplating the next thing to go in the gun safe, and I decided a small-calibre centrefire rifle is on the cards. As I am a reloader already, the first and foremost thing in my mind is care and feeding - especially feeding, which is why I'm putting this thread here. (In terms of what...

For reasons connected with child safety, I keep my guns and all the reloading paraphernalia out in a shed rather than in the house. With a bleak winter setting in, said shed is becoming somewhat inhospitable in the evenings (hell, at any time), and the thought of installing some heating comes...

Okay, so I finally got around to playing around with these in .303 British just yesterday, and a couple of things came to mind I thought I should ask. 1) Given that I am squeezing against a mandrel of a set size, is it actually possible to overdo things? I am using an RCBS Partner press, and...

The rifle being loaded for is a milsurp .303, so the extremes of benchrest accuracy are not being sought. One school of thought I'm aware of says "Look up the trim-to length (e.g. 2.212" for the aforementioned .303 British) and set your trimmer to that." Cases which might be shorter for...

Who's got experience with this (ETA in .303 Brit)? http://members.shaw.ca/cronhelm/TheLoad.html Starting to look attractive for offhand practice at short range with my remaining 125gn projectiles. I've heard one can also substitute Green Dot in similar amounts.

Just thought I would ask people's advice about this, as I'm about to plunge eyeball-deep into serious load development for my .303, as opposed to just tinkering and getting my toes back in the water after an absence. I offer as an example the starting and maximum loads for the 180gn RN Speer...

Strictly theoretical from my POV as I am several years away right now from being interested in or having the time for pistol shooting, BUT... It occurs to me that if you're loading a cartridge (e.g. .357 Mag, .44 Mag, .45 Colt, etc.) for simultaneous use in rifle and handgun, one or the other...