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    Annealing brass????????????

    Re: Annealing brass???????????? You'd have laughed at my first attempt at annealing using the pan method... didn't work out so well. The posters who recommend heating the mouth of the case and then dropping it into water are using the method that works best for me. I use my wife's gas...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp Separation of the powder variable takes place here: <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If powder temperature were the main actor, the change in MV would take place only after a cold...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp Brown Dog... I hope you understand that I'm having great fun with this, and am not being personal. Challenge and discussion are the tools of creation. It isn't necessary that we agree, but it is a lot of fun to discuss. Thank you for your...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the temperature coefficient of 'what' is matched?</div></div> Well, that's an honest question that deserves an answer. The temperature coefficient of the...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I strongly suspect that the results obtained are actually showing the effects of the barrel temp on the physical characteristics of the polymer -and the...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Group therapy is a great read. Couldn't agree more.</div></div> Thank you for the kind words.
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">here is the link to the articles, I will clean up the page later, but this will get you started Denton Bramwell Articles </div></div> Thank you. That...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How much of that has to do with the round warming the powder.</div></div> Apparently not much, even though much of the literature assumes this. The full...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So, how do you map that... simply by your SD and ES, because linear methods don't hold true. </div></div> That's a very good question. The model you have...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If there is a copy of it available on the web, perhaps you could post the link here, because it's highly relevant.</div></div> At the moment, I don't have...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    Re: Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">found it to vary between .6fps and 5fps per 1 degree of temperature change</div></div> That agrees with my results. So I heartily agree that you have to...
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    Range Report Theoretical Look at POI vs. Barrel Temp

    There is an argument raging about the effect of barrel temperature on POI. That's taking place on a paid thread that I choose not to join. But maybe the following comments will add some light to the discussion: Guns do what guns do. Sometimes we can do a pretty good job of predicting that...
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    Lee reloading kit - Why so cheap?

    Re: Lee reloading kit - Why so cheap? You can get good or bad equipment from just about any supplier. Some Lee products are as good as you can get. Others, not so much. It's hard to beat the Lee Classic Cast press. I have asked several times, in pretty public forums, for someone to point...