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....... FWIW, COL of both rifles is limited by the magazine, so it's nothing to do with headspace directly. ??????????????? LOL..!!... Yeah, I just realized how stupid that was. I'll shut up and go sit in the corner now. Anyway, my point was that my problem wasn't too much headspace, it was too lit...

jo191145, that's not what I said. I said I was FL sizing on account of some bad advice, not that advice to FL size was bad. Not the same thing. And I didn't say the 'bad' advice came from the local gun guru. LGG and I were discussing a self-inflicted problem with a .243 WSSM, not this .204. His advi...

Sorry so long to get back to this but I've had a busy weekend, plus I needed to do some more research before revisiting this. Hey Fred First off, primer edges are still fairly round. No bright smears or ejector marks on the brass. Two good signs.... My thinking as well. Normal bolt lift was "go...

So I made my first load work-up trip to the range today with RL-10x and some 32-grain Noslers for my beloved Savage 12 VL, three rounds each at 0.2 grain increments. Some of the loads proved extremely accurate but I was concerned about primer cratering. I know F205M primers have a reputation for bei...

I got further confirmation that my chrono is meshuge today. I was loading a .243 WSSM that also was producing chrono numbers that were too good to be true, and I couldn't find another chrono to borrow, so I decided to test the load at out to 400 yards and calculate MV from bullet drop. I'd tested th...

Did you ever shoot a rifle that shot so perfectly, you couldn't seem to miss with it? I don't mean to brag but that seems to be exactly what I've got in my Savage 12 Varminter low profile. It astonishes me how well this thing shoots, and I'm afraid I can't take any credit for it; I just feed it and ...

I'm guessing the chrono was having me on that day. I've taken it to the range twice more since and the numbers in each instance have been more reasonable. The digital scale scale I was using also was having problems, which made me all the more suspicious of those first .204 loads. I got a beam scale...

Well, nobody's commented about my primer pictures but what I am getting is that something just ain't right. I'm easily ~200 fps faster than I should be with a naked bullet, closer to ~300 fps with the WS2. I'm about to head over to my 'smiths in a bit -- he's an old time reloader -- to let him look ...

...I guess you could have one of those barrels my gunsmith calls a "FAST" barrel and you might be getting more velocity than the average barrel, but you got nearly 200 fps more velocity with your 30.3 gr. load than I got with a 30.4 gr. load. It definitely makes you wonder :huh: :question...

I went to the range this a.m. with my first ever rifle reloads, 32-grain loads for my Savage 12 VL. My goal was to see how close I could get to Hornady's claimed 4225 fps and maintain the amazing accuracy this rifle had displayed with factory ammo. I needed a couple of shots to get the chrono proper...

I'm shooting 28 grains of H-4895, with a 39 grain SBK, coated with WS-2, and Remington case in my Cooper with no signs of excess pressure. This load is .5 to 1.5 over max. depending on which manual you look at. Not saying it will work in your rifle. Thanks, Bitman. I'm not looking for guarantees, j...

Apologies in advance if this already has been covered. I searched but didn't find the detail I'm looking for. Has anyone here experimented with hot loads in order to determine whether bullets coated with moly, tungsten or boron can stand a hotter-than-max load (for a naked bullet) without producing ...