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Thanks for the info. I'm just going to give them away.

I have about 100 FC 308 brass that have crimped primers. I can remove them but need to know if their is any way to open the primer whole enough to accept an new primer?

This is what I did.

Thanks guys. I was hoping for someone to come up with some statistics to show that this would be impossible. This is mostly likely a long shot but I'm looking for something to take to the meeting. Jim

We have a problem here in Honolulu. Their is only one public range which had steel set at 250, 300 & 450yds. They have just shut down all but 100yds paper because a person has claimed that a .30 ricochet off of steel plate traveled up 226 yds over a hill then traveled 2550 yds where it hit a...

45.6gr of BL-C(2) in my bolt gun, gives me 2665 fps with 175 SMK. 24" barrel. Temp. 85

Welcome to the club.

My experience is that they like a jump of about .030. 175 SMK, 43gr BL-C)2) 100yds 5 shots of which was one was a choke on my part. My rifle built on a Remington 700.

I use 43gr of BL-C(2) 24" barrel, 175 SMK. MV 2500 fps 500' ASL, 84 temp. I get about 12 reloads from the brass and get Ies wear and tear on the rifle. For my hot loads BL-C(2) 45.8gr. MV 2675. 100 yds, 5 shots 2500 fps 175 SMK

What will happen if you have a case length of say 2.025?

I use a bipod.

I notice that I get small amount of powder just inside of the neck. It's sticking to the lube. I use a lube pad and twist the necks on the pad to lube.

I now have a Hornady Lock-in Load OAL gauge. Once I get the OAL, just use my comparator to get the ogive form the gauge. Very simple!

Thanks all. The Sticky thread helped. Jim

I use a comparator. How do you get the comparator measurement?