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    Carbon on shoulder Dasher

    Tight chambers should be a result of neck turning, not the other way around. Neck uniforming has its own pros/cons. And you get a tighter neck reamer when you want your neck clearance to be less than it would be in a no turn reamer with turned necks (debatable if excessive clearance really...
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    Advanced Marksmanship My compiled reloading problems and queries (Sorry to spew..)

    An expander ball is not a mandrel and operates differently.
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    Question on pin gages vs. expander mandrels

    Large issue I see with people loading ammo is they really don’t know what the ID of their brass actually is. They either do math that doesn’t account for spring back or they account for too little/too much spring back. Or, they measure with calipers which won’t give you a good reading for...
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    Question on pin gages vs. expander mandrels

    Because once you know what works on paper, measuring tells you (for the most part) when something is either A) wrong with your process or B) something is up with that particular piece of brass and likely won’t be as consistent. For the OP, buy the 21st century set of whatever you’re loading...
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    Ladder test after annealing brass?

    More data for anyone looking at sonic cleaning as opposed to tumbling (wet or dry). 150deg for 20min with boretech brass cleaner. No oxide. No lube or brushing needed for light seating pressure (cold welding is entirely different possibility/problem). The case from the picture was annealed on...
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    Techniques & equipment for load testing F-Class & PRS loads on BENCH?

    Your reading comprehension is terrible. People are typically saying 1 shot velocity ladders don’t work. Most of the time, no one is taking aim at POI ladder tests as that’s a completely other topic. Also, if Alex Wheeler thinks he needs 3 shots per charge weights and not one, I guess he can’t...
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    Wilson bullet seating

    It allows you to add another QC check in your system, especially if you have a gauge on your arbor press. However, the gauge will just tell you that *something* is different around the seating of that particular bullet. “Neck tension” is comprised of several things. So when a round has a...
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    Brushes?

    They won’t want to hear it. I’m annealing, sonic cleaning, then using bronze brush to completely clean/polish inside of neck. Zero or almost zero carbon left in the neck. Using .0015 under neck diameter (some call it neck tension). No lube or graphite at all. Ends up with 25psi average...
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    Techniques & equipment for load testing F-Class & PRS loads on BENCH?

    Your original post says otherwise. Years shooting doesn’t equal knowing how to shoot. Otherwise, you wouldn’t need to ask how to factor out your performance. If you’re performing the shooting task properly, then you know it’s not you most of the time. I cannot name a single instance I’ve ever...
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    Techniques & equipment for load testing F-Class & PRS loads on BENCH?

    Take classes and learn to shoot before worrying about learning to load ammo and eating up time testing ammo. If you can’t outshoot ammo you make with moderate velocity powder charge that’s shooting .7-1moa (just pick a charge for a chosen velocity and mess with seating depth a little to get it...
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    Annealing Brass - Science vs Myths

    If the force gauge only measured one single thing, yes. But it doesn’t. Seating force is a combination of many things. The gauge is just telling you that one or more of those things are different when you get more or less seating pressure than normal. For example, you can have the exact same...
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    Acceptable aimpoint movement after recoil

    .5 or so vertical. Almost no horizontal.
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    Free recoil POI change question

    Short answer, you can beat the bullet out of the barrel several ways. Trigger press, npa issues, recoil management (including free recoil), breathing, etc….
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    Jumping from 300 to 600 yards

    They let you shoot the 6” plate @ 300yds? If it’s 600, that’s no walk in the park. As far as going from 300 to 600, either use the “weaponized math” (do a search for that here) or input the info into your software and go from there. You should be very close and can adjust after seeing a round...
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    Tips for loading PVA solids.

    Also, remember, jump is fairly relative. We don’t actually care if it’s exactly .020 or .023 or whatever from the rifling. We just get a rough idea with whatever method (Wheeler, hornady tool, etc) as a starting point and just increase the seating depth until we find an area that’s optimal or...
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    Tips for loading PVA solids.

    Hornady tool and then the 30 cal insert and attachment from SAC.
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    Target Size for 1500-2000 yds

    There’s two points. 1: growing the game/sport. That doesn’t happen when people don’t have fun. 2: when the winners aren’t consistent and hit % is usually around 20%……that’s not hard/skill. That’s rolling the dice…..lobbing paper weights 30 times each and seeing who gets lucky that day. Lucky...
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    Rifle Cleaning

    This exactly. I’ve seen patches come out very clean. Borescope says otherwise.
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    Rifle Cleaning

    Also, it’s basically impossible for bronze brush to harm stainless. The issue that arises is if the bronze brush starts flaking off in the barrel. Then you need to clean it out like copper.
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    Rifle Cleaning

    Getting the carbon out is easy. Fill the barrel with carbon cleaner. Leave it for a while. Flush and patch it out. Use a brush if you like. Do the same thing for copper with copper solvent. Less than 10min of actual labor. Barrel looks brand new. Takes a handful or less shots to foul back to...
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