Always check your powder charges!
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Best piece of advise for a new reloader?
- Thread starter JSimotes
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Reload when you have time to do it. You will run into problems when you are split between something else and reloading.
Full attention.
Go slow, double check everything and NO DISTRACTIONS!!! No phone, no TV, no radio, no people. I only load with the radio on. Phone stays away.
Lots and lots of great comments so far.
Safety first; good manual like hornady’s is paramount. Type of powder and charge must be correc, so QA there.
trim rifle brass, clean dirty pockets, check headspace. Good luck.
Safety first; good manual like hornady’s is paramount. Type of powder and charge must be correc, so QA there.
trim rifle brass, clean dirty pockets, check headspace. Good luck.
brass prep is a pita...and key to accurate reloads. I uniform primer pockets, flash holes, anneal, resize, trim, chamfer....
I just learned to not trust your electronic devices and always have a manual balance scale and calipers to be 100% your electronic devices aren’t acting up. I had a cheap digital Arsenal powder scale. It started acting weird in the middle of loading test rounds. The first 25 rounds were great, then I had my first squib. I think it was about 5 grains light, but I can’t really know. I had a gun smith remove the stuck bullet out of my barrel. I do listen and pay attention to every shot and had the sense to check my barrel before firing again. That scale was purchased in 2017 when I started and worked great until the other week.
If you want rounds to go blast with, most anything will do. If you're looking for the best accuracy in rifle ammo, Lapua brass and a good bullet go a long way toward great accuracy. Learn to seat your bullets so that they are just off or just barely kissing the lands for the very best accuracy in most rifles.
