How compulsive are you?

[srjdsmith]

If you had a Redding, model #3




How often would you weigh a charge? Let’s say you’re loading .44 mag, just high of center in the load bracket, for hunting.

Would your answer change if you were loading a grain under max (in the Hornady manual)?

What about .223 or .45 ACP for the range?

[tommag]

I usually check every 10th one but use a flashlight to look at all of them when they're together in the loading block. If I were on the ragged edge I might weigh every one. A lot depends on how nicely the powder meters. H335 vs 4064 or unique, for example.

[olfart]

I weigh about every tenth unless I'm pushing the upper limit, then I check every fifth. I also installed a short strip of LED white lights in the top of my press so I can visually check that powder is present before seating a bullet.

[specops56]

I weigh them at random.

Terry

[tommag]

When I was chasing tiny groups in a rifle I would weigh every charge in addition to sorting brass by weight/uniforming primer pockets/ deburring flasholes/turning necks.

[olfart]

And then there's those who shoot Greek military surplus .30-'06 from an 81-yr-old Garand and still manage minute-of-buffalo accuracy with iron sights at 1,123 yds.

[tommag]

And then there's those who shoot Greek military surplus .30-'06 from an 81-yr-old Garand and still manage minute-of-buffalo accuracy with iron sights at 1,123 yds.

The hxp was pretty good ammo. Is it still around?

[olfart]

In my closet, yes. Other than that, anybody's guess. I think CMP ran out of it several years ago unless they found another stockpile.

[tommag]

In my closet, yes. Other than that, anybody's guess. I think CMP ran out of it several years ago unless they found another stockpile.

I probably have 600 hxp 303 British I no longer need. Nobody around here wants it anymore.