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This has not happened to me .....yet. (knock on wood) But I would like to know what to do in the event it happens. I just read the thread about detonation with reloads and it got me thinking about squibs. Would it be better to get it out while the barrel is still hot at the range? (theoretically th...

I will check out some of the Ramshot powders. Tac sounds nice. Is that spherical or flattened spherical? What exactly is double based?

I took the set screw out and couldn't move the locking ring at all. I read somewhere else that it just gets stuck sometimes on redding dies so I will have to check it again.

Why do they have the set screw when the locking nut doesn't move at all? (or maybe its just mine) I when I thread it all the way in the way it is, I cannot throw the press arm all the way, but when I put a case in I think it goes all the way, but it makes a weird feeling at the last 1" or so of...

Thanks.

K_Hini, I haven't come across that issue yet.

So I am wondering about my seating method. Everything I have seated until recently has had a boat tail. They just sat nicely on the case and I would throw the press lever and it would seat. But now I am using some 32gr Sierra BKs and they have no boat tail so I seem to be guiding almost every single...

I've used Butch's Bore Shine as well as other solvents, and would be interested in other forum members' experience with Montana Extreme versus their BMG product. I generally use MPro7 bore cleaner because it's not too harsh, and my skin reacts badly to the stringent products. I use latex gloves whe...

UPDATE This got a bit long, but I *THINK* it makes sense towards the end. So I am having a new theory that goes along with the other one. I just measured the fired cases lengths, and there seems to be a variation or two. In the target, we will concentrate on the left column of groupings using the 3...

Now if your getting white patches out of a barrel that just burned BLC2 then we have a problem. Not sure how that could be possible. I haven't used BLC2 in a couple years but I remember it to be fairly dirty. If your not using a bronze brush you need too. Even a Cooper has to get carbon in the barr...

Okay, I have had time to think about this. It looks to me like, and this is just a possibility, but that most shots are on a fairly consistent horizontal plane. The varying wind could be the cause of a good amount of the horizontal spread. That still leaves a few shots unaccounted for, but it would ...

More tumbling Sierras? Out of a Cooper nonetheless. Thats why I don't shoot them. I have a bit of history with tumbling and self destructing Sierras myself. Never hear that before. I only hear good things about BKs. :chin: Have we been down the "Are you sure your getting the copper out of that...

I might not be the most experienced loader, but I refuse to believe this is a powder issue. A gun might not like a powder, but to give me the results I have gotten the last two outtings (bullets going 2.5" to 5" off target, both 32gr and 40gr), there seems to be something else at work. Fac...

The best one is the 32BK that tumbled its way across the paper at 100 yards. Some shot good, as you can see, others refused to. I trickled every powder charge sans the 3 shot 40 Vmax group. I measured the out of round on the necks of every round...never over .001, but closer on most to .0005. I FL s...

So I lied, I am going to the range tomorrow. I even loaded some more 40 vmax....but this time I measured each and every load. The result? I loaded 10 rounds and the Dillon tossed all 10 right on the money. :P So I have a few of my bad day rounds, 10 rounds of this new stuff, and then the 32BKs. I wi...

I was going to get a box of 39's, but they were out so I got 32's. One day I will.