Thread: Powder Question

Originally Posted by Toby

Show's how much I know, That's what you guys are for until that bloody book gets its ass here. So How do you know your loading too hot?

Oh you will know if the load is too hot when, your bolt jams shut after firing, you get the primer extruding into firing pin hole, primer falls out when you open bolt if it has not jammed shut precursor to this one is a bright orange flash and oily smelling smoke right in front of your face and smoke coming out everywhere it should not, Ejector marks on rim of case. No need to load hot anyway you want to load for accuracy over velocity as it will still kill what you put the crosshairs on.

Once you have read your manuals a few times let me know and I will give you some 6.5x55 data to work with that I developed and chronied for a carl gustaf I had and they were deadly accurate loads but only after you have read some manuals first and you must promise to work up to the loads if I give you that data. The barrel twist rate of your carl gustaf is 1:8.5.

Thanks, Im going out today to make some brass

What caliber brass are you going to make?

not really making it, just shooting off some .308 .300wsm and 6.5 so I have brass.

Ah ok generally when someone says making some brass it means they are going to make brass from a case of a different caliber, all you are doing there is "fire forming" to your chamber dimensions. You will pick up on the terminology very soon.

Originally Posted by Smiddy

Read a book Toby, learn some shit from it, then ask questions - after you know what your talking about

Thats me fucked then Smiddy, i dont learn from books never have been able to and never will most probably, i have to do something first to get to grips with it.
When i start doing it for myself i hope people are as generous with there info for me as they have been with toby.

It was a pretty good day. not sure how much we shot but got a bit of brass there now and I have no sore shoulder

There's the brass to start with.

Yea well go around to someone's house and watch them do it, reading a book is the same as reading the forum. The book will give you step by step instructons, where as the forum wont really. Guess your fucked then ha

Thats exactly why i went round to Gavins when he lived in Gore, to watch him reload.
In the same way that not everyone learns from books not everyone is willing to help others out to i spose. Just as well this forums full of good buggers!

Ive been watching heaps of videos on youtube. I dont know anyone the reloads personally

Join up with your local NZDA you are bound to find a someone there who reloads that can give you some good practical reloading lessons. Don't always trust reloading videos on you tube as some can mislead you quite a bit especially if you get a video from some cowboy reloader.

What sort of rifle is your 300 wsm?

Winchester Model 70.