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You do not have to resize after pulling bullets. Springback from pulling the bullets will be enough to hold the bullet and the amount of neck tension will depend upon how work hardened your brass is. More work hardened more springback, less work hardened like new or annealed less springback...

A Redding Body Die is an excellent companion die to the Lee Collet. It will size the case body and push the shoulder back without contacting the neck you have just sized with the Lee Collet. I believe a lot the disagreement with reloaders about Full Length Resizing and Neck Sizing comes from...

The "case" volume has much less effect on the pressure than you are thinking. Brass is malleable (we move it around with hand tools and presses) and does little to retard the pressure building within it as the powder is ignited. Pressure does not peak until the brass is ironed to the chamber...

Chase the seating depth and thus controlling extreme spread and standard deviation next LOL :lol:

Do not use the Lee Collet because it is inexpensive and easy but for results. I have reloaded for over 40 rifles for dozens of years and in the beginning chased concentricity back into a reasonable amount. Several things to consider: When you fire a case it comes out of your rifle with...

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RL17 should give more barrel life compared to H1000. Reference chart RL17 is comparable to 4350 Faster powders give more barrel life, slower powders dwell time at the throat is longer, although measured in microseconds The reason larger calibers have much longer barrel life is they generally...

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I'm doing the same thing but have only gone through the charge weight ladder so far. My gun is a rebarrel with a 24" Pac-Nor 3 groove 1 in 8 BULLET WEIGHT POWDER GRAINS VELOCITY SSII 75 RL17 34.0 2886 SSII 75...

My old eyes were having problems with the open sights so I got at $50 red dot (Browning) and installed on rifle http://imgur.com/vJ42Avm using a one piece glued Weaver style mount for a long action Winchester http://imgur.com/NU6NiVq works like a charm, easy install and right on target with...

My grandkids were having difficulty cocking and loading the break barrel type of pellet gun I have so I ordered one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmxL2KS_gyU shoots BB's or pellets about 700 fps and CO2 cartridges are cheap Plus when they aren't here I might like it too. I went...

Short actions, won't have one. Some work OK but I have seen many that do not, even after taking to gunsmiths YMMV

Not everyone agrees that it should be powder charge first then seating test http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/ ... ts-184598/ long read but worth it

Did, but not because of the grouping, because it was at the velocity I wanted IME if you repeat an Audette or OCW you often get different results

That's the way I do it. I generally have a preconceived idea of what velocity I am hoping for and stop short of heavy bolt lift Example of this 6.5 rem mag that I thought would be great to shoot the 130 gr SSII at 3200 fps. I started lower and worked up with 1 load at each powder charge...