Clancy
Silver $$ Contributor
There’s some 68 avengers for sale in the classifieds today, at a dang good price.
LOOK WHAT I JUST GOT!
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Clancy
Silver $$ Contributor
That bench and cigar box reminds me so much of my childhood, reloading 222 with a fella named Bill Morgan that only ever gave me one piece of shooting advice: “practice, practice, practice.”
jackieschmidt
Gold $$ Contributor
I spent the morning at Tomball trying out my first batch out of bullets out of my new Rorschach Dies.
it was a bright sunny day, a front had come through, humidity was in the 30% range. That is really dry for the Gulf Coast area. That meant tuning 133 might be a challenge. Super low humidity means upper load window.
I finally worked up to 30.5 grns, with the bullets just in to the lands., At this point, it really came to life. This might seem like a really hot load, but it is one of the ways to get133 to shot in really low humidity conditions.
Shooting in a gentle right to left, these are the best two five shot groups I shot.
I switched over to some old original 2015BR, which is a little faster, and could not duplicate the performance of 133.
But the bullets are obviously top notch. Or at least 10 of them were.
These dies really make a nice looking bullet.
it was a bright sunny day, a front had come through, humidity was in the 30% range. That is really dry for the Gulf Coast area. That meant tuning 133 might be a challenge. Super low humidity means upper load window.
I finally worked up to 30.5 grns, with the bullets just in to the lands., At this point, it really came to life. This might seem like a really hot load, but it is one of the ways to get133 to shot in really low humidity conditions.
Shooting in a gentle right to left, these are the best two five shot groups I shot.
I switched over to some old original 2015BR, which is a little faster, and could not duplicate the performance of 133.
But the bullets are obviously top notch. Or at least 10 of them were.
These dies really make a nice looking bullet.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
One of these days youll finally load up that 2015 into an ar and go do some mag dumps to get rid of it
That’s really something and I bet it means a lot to you starting them from scratch!
Sandstorm
Gold $$ Contributor
That wasnt the first thing to go through my mind....lol
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Actually the shape and size of the bullet hole is how you judge if a gun is in tune or not
jackieschmidt
Gold $$ Contributor
Dusty, in usual Benchrest Shooter fashion, I did not post pictures of the groups that were not nearly as “Photogenic” as these two, LOL.
The bullets are darned good. But they still go exactly where the wind pushes them.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Send me 1k to check out
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