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    Drying Ultrasonic Cleaned Cases

    Re: Drying Ultrasonic Cleaned Cases I clean with a tumbler, ceramic beads and an ounce of Citranox in about a cup of water. 15 min and everything's clean. Oven works good to dry. 20 min on 250f, 20 min to cool and everything's ready for reloading.
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    Titegroup

    Re: Titegroup What are going to be shooting? A good target/bullseye load is 4.5 Titegroup behind Montana Gold 200 JFP, loaded as short as your gun will take it. This will not make minor though and you'll need a 12 or 13# spring.
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    A good read...Lapua vs SMK and Berger

    Re: A good read...Lapua vs SMK and Berger If you like that article, you MUST get Brian's book. I've never thoroughly understood external ballistics until I read his book. It's expensive, but worth every penny. I inherited an old aerodynamics text from my father's studies at Purdue that I...
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    45 loads

    Re: 45 loads Fav target load for 5" 1911 Montana Gold 200 grain JFP Titegroup 4.5 grains Winchester or Federal primer (not CCI) any brass, completely clean inside COL 1.180 Not every gun will feed this well, but if you have a good ramp you'll like the soft recoil and the very small groups.
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    45 ACP

    Re: 45 ACP I like Titegroup too, but it burns hot and will smoke up lead pretty good. For lead, try Clays (not international, not univeral). 4.0 Clays with 230 RN is pretty popular.
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    Range Report Applied Ballistics Book: Second Edition

    Re: Applied Ballistics Book: Second Edition Damit. I'm just about finished reading your first edition.
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    70gr Berger VLD instead of 75/77gr HPBT?

    Re: 70gr Berger VLD instead of 75/77gr HPBT? Jim- Did you get a chance to shoot these yet? Interested in the outcome of your tests.