A new DMC freebie has posted. 200 rounds of Winchester Super-X High Vel ammo for the person who can quess the military box challenge. Seriously, check it out. I would appreciate the support for the 204 folks. 204 is my most favorite caliber. I am working on a challenge that will give away something ...

Hey folks, It has been some time since I have posted however I wanted to share with you all an opportunity to get some free reloading items over the next two weeks. I hope the fact that I have been a member for a while wont get me board trolled off for what I am about to post. I just started Defense...

HI mvpal. Not a lot of people here seem to load ww748! . Ive tried 28gr of 748 with a 32 vmax. Do you know what sort of velocity your getting with 29grains of 748?. love to know Hi Geoff, I have not tested this for speed. Ultimately I am going to tone it back a bit as this load was flattening prime...

Rick, Your pics have inspired me to the next level. We have some of pretty amazing desert lands south and west of Boise Idaho with endless roads and rolling hills full vermin deserving of extermination. I have been going to my favorite spot using an camp stool and a trigger style construction clamp ...

Rick,

What brand of shooting bench is that? I have an 84 CUCV blazer that I can remove the top on and would love to have a rest set up in the back for drive up shooting like you all are doing.

BTW. You must be in PD heaven to have that many on one line. Look fun.

What would be considered allot of shooting for a day. Yesterday I fired 100 rnds from 10am to 4pm in the afternoon. It was about 65 degrees outside. Being a varmint control operator is my most favorite occupation in the world however I was exhausted by the end of the day. The load I fired was: 32 gr...

Thanks you guys.

I know the barrel lift question has been hashed out here already however I am curious if there is any know facts about lighter vs hot loads and how it pertains to barrel life.

Dylan

Wow. Thanks for all the information everybody. I have been away for a few days. I guess I can consider myself lucky for this little session of learning I had with my TE. I learned allot about reloading especially primers thanks to the article pointed out by Rick. I also found out that my TE seems to...

Now for the big question. I loaded up 40 of each of the following using the data from the Hornady book thinking the money I saved on the primers would work fine. After firing 2 groups of 3 each I was noticing cratering and flattening of the primer however the groups were less than half inch at 100. ...

Rick - I tried CCI 400s but was getting severe cratering even at moderate loads. Did some research and found that they're .005" thinner than the Rem 7/12 or BR4. James Calhoun did a paper on primers and pressure which indicated that the 400s were more of a 40,000 psi and under primer. Or did y...

mvpal Rem 6.5??? If thats not a misprint I would suggest you stop using those in any modern cartridge such as the 204. They're designed for low pressure turn of the century cartridges like the 22 Hornet, 25-20W etc. You pop one of those thin primers in an Encore action and you may have a devil of a...

Don't worry about the flash hole diameter, or out of round condition, it won't make any difference. Flash holes can be drilled out to quite large diameters without any change in accuracy. I hear that. I dont want to buy factory retail brass and have to do extra work just to make it work. There was ...

Congrats on the discount purchase. For me, it is like finding cash laying on the ground. Makes my day when that happens. When taking the brass back, I almost bought Remington but did not because I am such a cheap skate. I loaded up 3 different concoctions last night with the Winchester and am going ...

I am not a purest. I have found all the accuracy that I need to vaporize vermin with the loads I have made using Winchester brass. About two weeks ago I picked up 200 cases and sat down to load them up today. I looked in the primer pocket and found most every single flash hole double pierced or oval...