Thread: First attempt at reloading. Thoughts please.

Originally Posted by Blackfern

Nope. In fact there looked to be less pressure at 42.5 than 41.5. Primers went from getting flat to looking as round as an unfired one. Made me scratch my head.

primers are not always the best indicator of pressure, velocity at a given charge will certainly give you a better indication (there's a lot more to it than that but just a heads up) not trying to tell you how to suck eggs just pointing out if you want to now what your pressure is at there are ways to figure it out using velocity, charge weight, seating depth, brass capacity etc etc otherwise you are just guessing in reality.
Some can make educated guesses based on experience, it really depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go, and how far/hot you want to push your load.
there are no free lunches if you increase charge weight or seating depth pressure will increase and things will wear out faster and recoil harder etc etc.
you state its a bush gun ? will the 41.5gn load do what you need it to at he max range you are likely to use it out to ? if so why waste projectiles and primers etc ? end of the day it's your load, do what you want but i think your already onto a pretty good load there.

Originally Posted by dannyb

you state its a bush gun ? will the 41.5gn load do what you need it to at he max range you are likely to use it out to ? if so why waste projectiles and primers etc ? end of the day it's your load, do what you want but i think your already onto a pretty good load there.

well buggamesideways........ we agree on something LOL..... AND if your going to twiddle n fiddle with the dials on your scope,even getting another 300fps cough cough wont matter a flying fig unless your trying to do 7mmswm feats with the 7mm08

and here is another free observation for you... @RUMPY may like to confirm this as seeing his targets with multiple loads made it plurry obvious to me. this is really easy to see for yourself as you look to have used a sticker for aiming point.
wait for it
wait
wait
wait
ok here it is
ALL of your groups are same size or smaller than your aiming mark!!!!!!!!!
nah stop,look again..let it sink in,look again....
unless you have huge magnification and can cut that orange dot neatly into 4 bits like a pizza there is simple NO WAY IN HELL you POSSIBLY CAN shoot a smaller group...you cant as you arent asking rifle to do so,youve asked it to shoot into the dot,and it has.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

and here is another free observation for you... @RUMPY may like to confirm this as seeing his targets with multiple loads made it plurry obvious to me. this is really easy to see for yourself as you look to have used a sticker for aiming point.
wait for it
wait
wait
wait
ok here it is
ALL of your groups are same size or smaller than your aiming mark!!!!!!!!!
nah stop,look again..let it sink in,look again....
unless you have huge magnification and can cut that orange dot neatly into 4 bits like a pizza there is simple NO WAY IN HELL you POSSIBLY CAN shoot a smaller group...you cant as you arent asking rifle to do so,youve asked it to shoot into the dot,and it has.

And that's a very fair point. When shooting for groups I don't use a dot, I either use a set of four triangles (one top, one bottom, one each side points to each other) or a box type target so you can clearly see the aiming point against the crosshair.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

and here is another free observation for you... @RUMPY may like to confirm this as seeing his targets with multiple loads made it plurry obvious to me. this is really easy to see for yourself as you look to have used a sticker for aiming point.
wait for it
wait
wait
wait
ok here it is
ALL of your groups are same size or smaller than your aiming mark!!!!!!!!!
nah stop,look again..let it sink in,look again....
unless you have huge magnification and can cut that orange dot neatly into 4 bits like a pizza there is simple NO WAY IN HELL you POSSIBLY CAN shoot a smaller group...you cant as you arent asking rifle to do so,youve asked it to shoot into the dot,and it has.

dont wash the target out with the centre cross -put target dot it in one of the quadrants touching the centre cross , this way u can see it - trick some of the benchresters use with massive magnification shooting small dots