Thread: What Have You Loaded Today

Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag

@dannyb do you anneal brass after every shot?

Magnum cases Yup

Originally Posted by dannyb

Magnum cases Yup

By hand or on a machine ??

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Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

By hand or on a machine ??

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I have a hot salt bath annealing set up, can't justify an Amp annealer.....I get it up to 530 Celsius then have a metronome set up for 5 second intervals to keep my case heating time as consistent as possible, drop cases into a pot of cold water after heating. It's not perfect but definitely better than not annealing.

Forgot to take pictures but in last few days.

44 x 165Gr Nosler balistic tip for the .308
65 x 55Gr Sierra Blitzking for the 22-250

Getting ready for our forthcoming 4 month SI road trip.

Just running a few hundred Hornet cases through stage 1: walnut vibrate & Stage 2: deprime & FL resize.

22-204 & some 80gr ELDM loaded for a week away on goats. Give them a go & see what all the hype is about. There's a deer or two about & some pigs too. @Hunter_Nick I'm still taking my beloved 6x45 with me also, will have time to compare side by side.

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Originally Posted by Mathias

22-204 & some 80gr ELDM loaded for a week away on goats. Give them a go & see what all the hype is about. There's a deer or two about & some pigs too. @Hunter_Nick I'm still taking my beloved 6x45 with me also, will have time to compare side by side.

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Nice nice! What speed have you got the 80s skidding along at? My pick is you’ll see bugger all difference between zero and 250yds. The 22-204 will start stepping away after that, better in the wind too

Originally Posted by Mathias

22-204 & some 80gr ELDM loaded for a week away on goats. Give them a go & see what all the hype is about. There's a deer or two about & some pigs too. @Hunter_Nick I'm still taking my beloved 6x45 with me also, will have time to compare side by side.

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trying to find the motivation right now to load another 50 for my 22-204 i thought the 50 a couple months ago would see my year out rifles obviously to fun to use because im down to about three what loaded length did you settle on.

Originally Posted by Hunter_Nick

Nice nice! What speed have you got the 80s skidding along at? My pick is you’ll see bugger all difference between zero and 250yds. The 22-204 will start stepping away after that, better in the wind too

Yeah like you say, beyond 250m it'll shine. 2945fps is what I settled on. Will go more but at the expense of primer pockets eventually.

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Originally Posted by Kelton

trying to find the motivation right now to load another 50 for my 22-204 i thought the 50 a couple months ago would see my year out rifles obviously to fun to use because im down to about three what loaded length did you settle on.

66mm, mag length. Pretty sure you told me the same.

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Originally Posted by Mathias

I'm still taking my beloved 6x45 with me

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My 6x45 ( 6mm - 223 ) is actually my favourite Rifle I’ve ever owned.
I’m interested in knowing what your Load / Projectile / Powder combo is and what you use it for

Originally Posted by Ground Control

My 6x45 ( 6mm - 223 ) is actually my favourite Rifle I’ve ever owned.
I’m interested in knowing what your Load / Projectile / Powder combo is and what you use it for

H335, 75gr Sierra HP @ approx 3000fps. Used for last 5-6 years on deer, goats & pigs up to about 300m.

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Originally Posted by Mathias

H335, 75gr Sierra HP @ approx 3000fps. Used for last 5-6 years on deer, goats & pigs up to about 300m.

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I’m throwing a Sierra 85 gr hpbt at 2865 fps with H2206 .
Haven’t shot many Critters with it yet , but all that have touched had not moved far .
It just just shoots “Dots “ without any load development, truth is I could probably improve on it’s already impressive accuracy but why bother .
It amazes me that it , or a version of it wasn’t/ hasn’t been adopted by a major manufacturer over the years .
I just haven’t used my .223 much since getting it and it’s crossed my mind a few times as to why I still have my .223

Well today I had a first in 30 plus years of reloading, a real oops.

I had 20 rounds each of 22 CM and 6mm CM to do. That combination sorta requires you keep your wits about you as they look very similar in every way.

I load both with 2209, one gets 41.5 and the other 43.0. See why I was being so careful I really fucked up!

Yup I loaded them both with 2208 instead of 2209. Got to the range and the first 6mm round blew a primer. My first thought was I'd set the scales wrong, so stupidly I tried a 22 CM. Same result. When I've dropped the powder into them I always visually check the powder level and I had spotted that it was a bit different at that stage but didn't do anything about it. So the holes in the swizz cheese lined up. Fortunately no damage done except to two cases and my pride. . . But it could have ended less well!

No photos but loaded up some 80gr Hammer hht’s with reloder 19 for the 22 creed…
Hopefully goes better than yours @Tentman