SmallCaliberCentral

Ok I picked up some more tools and measured a once fired factory hornady case and compared it to a few of my resized cases, and length to shoulder differences were between .0035 and .004. I also picked up a neck sizer die and will give that a try as well.

I have the die touching the shell holder, I set it that way because the instructions that came with them said to. Is there a way to set it so that it only neck sizes the brass?

It's once or twice fired, I don't keep very good track of that. I full length size using rcbs dies

ok I was able to get out to the range today, first one of the 24.5s was clean then the other 2 did the same as my previous loads. as I shot through the others it did get better, the last one being the cleanest with only some discoloration of the neck and part of the shoulder. the factory hornady rou...

Ok that sounds like a good plan, thanks. I'll look around for some other powders to test also, but until recently powder has been pretty scarce around here but that seems to have changed. It'll be a couple weeks before I can do any more testing as I'm up north at work and just started my rotation.

Do you think a .5 grain increase in charge would be too much of a jump?

Getting soot all the way to the rim.

Yes 23.8 grains and I have heard that about the berger data. The re10x was easy to find locally and seemed to be a popular choice for this caliber so I thought I'd give it a try. It does seem to be a little dirty. As far as annealing brass, I've never done that before. These were once or twice fired...

Reloader 10x

I recently started to reload for my .204 using 35 gr bergers and 45 gr hornady bullets. Yesterday I shot some of my 35s and had a lot of soot all the way down the side to the rim of my cases, the previous batch of them I loaded did not do this and neither did the factory hornady 32 gainers or the 45...