loademwell
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A friend of myne's father passed away a few months ago... And the friend asked if I wanted some odd and ends reloading items that were laying about.
"Sure"
In this mess of items, was a whole bunch of 30-06 loaded rounds... They were very beat up and dirty. So i figured I would pull the rounds and do some recycling.
I can tell his loads (which I remeasured and compared to data charts) and seemed to be sitting pretty. Reloaded those bullets (about 80 of them) and found that however he reloaded them, they were all +/- .1 of a grain. GOOD!
Finished that lot and started pulling some odd and end ones that were in a box. I could tell that these were different from the OAL and the projectile looked different. But what I came up with, is that these must be from Factory... After pulling about 10 and keeping a log of how much powder each had in it and exactly how much the bullet weighed, I found that they were all way diff. (The powder looked to be the same ---I know, I know.. never try to tell what a powder is by its looks---) Here is some of the data that I got for a 180 SP
53.4
63.4
59.2
63.3
53.1
53.4
65.0
54.3
64.4
All of these powders looked like tiny balls. not the long ones that I am used to seeing in 30-06's
Some of those loads look SCARY!! 65.0 grains? I haven't found one load in any of my books that go over 60.0 grains....
Has anyone ever pulled factory rounds and did a comparison? I would be interested in seeing if this happens a lot or am I pulling rounds made by someone who didn't have a scale or what?
"Sure"
In this mess of items, was a whole bunch of 30-06 loaded rounds... They were very beat up and dirty. So i figured I would pull the rounds and do some recycling.
I can tell his loads (which I remeasured and compared to data charts) and seemed to be sitting pretty. Reloaded those bullets (about 80 of them) and found that however he reloaded them, they were all +/- .1 of a grain. GOOD!
Finished that lot and started pulling some odd and end ones that were in a box. I could tell that these were different from the OAL and the projectile looked different. But what I came up with, is that these must be from Factory... After pulling about 10 and keeping a log of how much powder each had in it and exactly how much the bullet weighed, I found that they were all way diff. (The powder looked to be the same ---I know, I know.. never try to tell what a powder is by its looks---) Here is some of the data that I got for a 180 SP
53.4
63.4
59.2
63.3
53.1
53.4
65.0
54.3
64.4
All of these powders looked like tiny balls. not the long ones that I am used to seeing in 30-06's
Some of those loads look SCARY!! 65.0 grains? I haven't found one load in any of my books that go over 60.0 grains....
Has anyone ever pulled factory rounds and did a comparison? I would be interested in seeing if this happens a lot or am I pulling rounds made by someone who didn't have a scale or what?