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I did get some Remington primers like suggested, but it's been raining daily so I haven't had a chance to go fire a round or two and see if they make a difference compared to my CCI 400s. First thing I did when I bought my .204 LRPV was to send the bolt assembly to Gre-Tan rifles and get the firing ...

I just bought Redding dies last week because my new 204 is a new caliber for me. I just got the 2 die set, the neck sizing die and the seating die. #913681 is the stock number from Midway, $31.49 for both of them. By the invoice, #82287 may be the Redding number. I've loaded and shot about 50+/- rou...

Neck size your once fired cases and report back on the primers. I will. We've suddenly got a rainy weatherfront that's supposed to be here for the next 3+ days, so it won't be until that passes. I've had the same experience with Win. brass when loading fairly mild loads for my 22-250. Unfortunately...

Acloco, thank you, good to be here. Sorry, I forgot to mention it was new Win. unfired brass. I just neck sized and that was it. Now that it's fire-formed, it will be interesting to see it that affects it at all. I've seen other savage rifles crater the primers, and by the many responses on this for...

I glass and pillar bedded my Howa 22-250 Varminter Supreme a year or so ago and it made a big difference in my already decent group size. Instead of Brownell's, this time I went with Score High Gunsmithing's pillar and bedding kit at http://www.scorehi.com. I was very impressed with the kit, instruc...

Just joined this informative site after I bought a Savage 12 Low Profile Varminter just last week. To break in the barrel, I loaded up a number of 39gr. Sierra BKs, Win. brass, CCI 400 primers and 25.6 gr. of Hodgdon Varget. All the info I see states min. of 25.1 to a max. of 28.0. My COL is 2.300, ...