Rookie question:
What do folks do with rounds that are found to be over-pressure and thus are not shot? Pull the bullet and reload the case? Is the powder reuseable? Can the bullet be reloaded, too? Something else? What's the best way to pull the bullets, if that is what you do?
These unshootable rounds are what's left over after you do a ladder test and find maximum pressure before you get to the top of the range of powder charge weights you loaded. For example, you load from 65.0gn to 70.0gn in 0.5gn steps. Then when shooting at the range, you get pressure signs at 68.5gn, and thus don't shoot the 69.0 to 70.0n loads. What to do with those 69.0gn to 70.0gn loads?
Not to mention all those half-empty boxes of factory ammo that never shot well in my gun, and, now that I reload, have no chance of ever being shot by me.
What do folks do with rounds that are found to be over-pressure and thus are not shot? Pull the bullet and reload the case? Is the powder reuseable? Can the bullet be reloaded, too? Something else? What's the best way to pull the bullets, if that is what you do?
These unshootable rounds are what's left over after you do a ladder test and find maximum pressure before you get to the top of the range of powder charge weights you loaded. For example, you load from 65.0gn to 70.0gn in 0.5gn steps. Then when shooting at the range, you get pressure signs at 68.5gn, and thus don't shoot the 69.0 to 70.0n loads. What to do with those 69.0gn to 70.0gn loads?
Not to mention all those half-empty boxes of factory ammo that never shot well in my gun, and, now that I reload, have no chance of ever being shot by me.
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