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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Magnum_Willys on December 08, 2020, 08:19:28 PM

Title: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: Magnum_Willys on December 08, 2020, 08:19:28 PM: Made the mistake for a year of thinking my balance beam scale was more accurate than my Chargemaster. Was using Chargemaster to drop charge and trueing up with balance scale. Wth? Finally got an FX-120i scale a year ago and realized my balance beam scale was the one prone to errors. Now every load is within 1/2 kernal the same.

I Now use chargemaster to drop within .04 gr then tweezers to add a kernel or 2

Made the mistake last couple years just using a nylon brush instead of bronze to clean bores. With a $50 amazon borescope realized the nylon does not scrub the carbon all out. Hit my bore with a bronze brush and could see steel again. Did drop velocity a bit but back to 6” groups at 950 yd.

Made mistake on under annealing - bumped it up a bit and now running single digit es on 300 gr Lapua.

When it all works es is single digit.

6 shots at 950. Load is better than shooter !

(https://youtu.be/LsuDu9ZWa1E)
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Title: Re: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: Norman89 on December 08, 2020, 08:27:45 PM: You sir, just got a new subscriber :tup:
Title: Re: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: Stein on December 08, 2020, 08:38:18 PM: That's a similar process I use only I am a bit more ghetto. I use a Lee scoop, then trickle, then a tweezer if I need one grain more or less. Glad I don't shoot F class or PRS.
Title: Re: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: Reidus on December 08, 2020, 09:04:40 PM: What about the v3 auto trickler for the fx120i?
Title: Re: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: Magnum_Willys on December 08, 2020, 10:16:07 PM: Quote from: Reidus on December 08, 2020, 09:04:40 PM
What about the v3 auto trickler for the fx120i?

Thats likely what I will end up with!
Title: Re: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: birddogdad on December 09, 2020, 06:58:30 AM: Quote from: Magnum_Willys on December 08, 2020, 08:19:28 PM
Made the mistake for a year of thinking my balance beam scale was more accurate than my Chargemaster. Was using Chargemaster to drop charge and trueing up with balance scale. Wth? Finally got an FX-120i scale a year ago and realized my balance beam scale was the one prone to errors. Now every load is within 1/2 kernal the same.

I Now use chargemaster to drop within .04 gr then tweezers to add a kernel or 2

Made the mistake last couple years just using a nylon brush instead of bronze to clean bores. With a $50 amazon borescope realized the nylon does not scrub the carbon all out. Hit my bore with a bronze brush and could see steel again. Did drop velocity a bit but back to 6” groups at 950 yd.

Made mistake on under annealing - bumped it up a bit and now running single digit es on 300 gr Lapua.

When it all works es is single digit.

6 shots at 950. Load is better than shooter !

(https://youtu.be/LsuDu9ZWa1E)
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willy what is your annealing timeline for lapua? every empty? 3x fired, 5? i have Cheytac and am segregating cases by fire times for this to determine "good" options on when annealing should happen....
Title: Re: Reloading mistakes - ditch the nylon brush & balance beam scale !
Post by: Magnum_Willys on December 09, 2020, 07:18:39 PM: I have an AMP so I just anneal everytime. I segregate rounds too. I bumped my setting up 2 points and got a much more consistent bullet seating. All my rounds were within .001 in length to ogive and 2/3 were under .0010 runout and all under .0015 . This is with 300 bergers.

I had to anneal everytime with bottleneck 338-378 cases so just got into the habit. Very important to brush necks with stiff nylon brush after annealing. I do 4-5 strokes.

I also spray liquid graphite in a small 1/2 pint jar, tilt it so depth when dipped just covers neck. Dip, wipe outside of brass, place neck down in tray.