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Ammunition & Reloading

KLGunner

KLGunner

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Welcome to the recently improved Reloading section, now known as Ammunition & Reloading. Thanks to the suggestions of our members and the brainstorming of our distinguished staff. Where all discussions on ammunition and reloading are now consolidated, no need to hunt through pages of threads in other categories to find information on any elusive round or those pesky specs on reloading; from now on, they can all be found here. Please post any future postings regarding any form of ammunition in this section. If you know of a post regarding ammunition that is lingering in other sections of the forum, please gently bring it to our attention so we can move it to its appropriate new home. Over the next several weeks, mods and forum staff will be moving any we can find. Leave no page unturned. We do not want any stray bullets unaccounted for out there.
 
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Annihilator

Thread '10mm Ammunition: 7 Things You Need to Know'

Interesting article on the 10mm round, I have the S&W 610, good gun. The 10mm is a good round, but it has it’s limitations like other rounds have.

www.ammoland.com

10mm Ammunition: 7 Things You Need to Know

How utterly miserable life would be if we only had one type of pickup truck, lawn tractor, 80s band, or Chia Pet character? 10mm ammunition another reason to support diversity.
www.ammoland.com www.ammoland.com
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FYI if not found yet...

Talyn

Post in thread 'Cartridge Comparison - 6.5 Creedmoor VS. 6.5 Swede:'

Any centerfire cartridge aside from the .223/5.56 is too expensive to shoot for plinking. But if you're a serious target shooter you'll shoot whatever you use.

My PSA PA10 (AR10-type) in 6.5 CM is very accirate and fits a role in the herd.

I too like my two 6.5 Swedes, one a CZ550 & the other a M38. The 6.5 Swede has two loading categories, the standard mil-spec and the SKAN which is a modern power level not to be used in the older mil rifles. Both are fun and not plinkers but I don;t shoot them much due to ammo costs but use the CZ550 for hunting.
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Talyn

Post in thread 'Are These Cartridges About To Go Obsolete?'

Grayfox said:
I think you could add the .30 Super Carry to the list. Its not so much obsolete as its a "never was".
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The new 30 Super is being chambered in additional firearms, so.."it is".
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Talyn

Thread 'Old & Slow But Still Kicking: All About the .30-30 Winchester + Bonus'

The venerable .30-30 Winchester, affectionately dubbed “30-30” by generations of bread-and-butter deer hunters, has been around for more than a century. Yet, how much do we really know about the roots, ballistics, firearms, and uses for this darling round that continues to hang around in the era of cartridges that shoot faster and flatter?

Old & Slow But Still Kicking: All About the .30-30 Winchester

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Bonus

Old Meets Young: The Finest .30-30 Firearms of All Time
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Talyn

Thread 'What’s The Deal With .223 Wylde?'

You’ve probably heard about .223 Wylde, but what is it, what is it good for and should you be taking advantage of it?​

What’s The Deal With .223 Wylde?

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Talyn

Thread '.30 Super Carry Handloads - Nighthawk Custom 1911'

Handloader TV - In this episode we are diving into the .30 Super Carry cartridge, sorting out fact from fiction and providing information on the cartridge, handloading for it, the firearm itself along with factory ammunition performance.

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Talyn

Thread '10mm Self Defense: A Suitable Defensive Cartridge?'

What cartridge is already proven as a stellar performer with a lot of guns chambered in it? 10mm Auto, of course.

10mm Self Defense

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Talyn

Thread 'Cartridge of the Week: The .45 Super'

The .45 Super
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The .45 Super is a powerful handgun cartridge that is externally/dimensionally identical to 45 ACP or 45 ACP +P. Developed in 1988 by Dean Grennell, a well-known writer in the firearms field. It has a thicker case wall and is loaded to higher pressures, which offers an average 300 feet per second (91 m/s) improvement in muzzle velocity over the .45 ACP. The cartridge was co-developed with Tom Fergerson and Ace Hindman.

In 1988, a Gun World article detailed Grennell's efforts to update the .45 ACP for the 21st century, a difficult endeavor...
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KLGunner said:
Please provide URLs. We are already hunting for the posts, so URLs make it a lot easier. Your first reply was perfect, please continue those.
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Understand

BTW you can get the URLs for the Cartridges of the Week posts by just going to the URL pages 2-8 links (searches) I provided back then to get the individual cartridge posts for their URLs to move.
 
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Hunting section - my posts

Talyn

Thread '.40-Caliber Cartridges: Marvelously In The Middle Big Bores'

For those with a strong shoulder.

.40 caliber rifle cartridges
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Thread 'Choosing a hunting cartridge to fit you'

Four deciding factors in choosing a hunting cartridge.

Choosing a hunting cartridge to fit you
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Talyn

Thread 'Ammo Brief: .300 Savage … 100 Years That’s Anything But ‘Savage’'

The first cartridge I started hunting with in a Savage 99.

The .300 Savage
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Talyn

Thread 'First Look: Federal Fusion 10mm Auto Hunting Ammo'

Not only for hunting, but this looks good for those that carry the 10mm in dangerous animal country.

Fusion 10mm Hunting ammo
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Talyn

Thread 'Six Interesting but often forgotten Varmit Cartridges'

"Sometimes we tend to forget the ones that may have turned vintage in age or might have gotten out of favor with us".

Six interesting but often forgotten varmit cartridges
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Talyn

Thread 'Big Medicine for Elk'

And the need for a strong shoulder.

Straight-walled cartridges with muscle to spare
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Talyn

Thread 'The Bonded-Core Bullet: A Revolution for the Hunter'

One of the more recent advancements in high-tech hunting bullet design is bonding. That is to “bond” or solder the core of the bullet to the jacket so that they remain together no matter what happens to the bullet.

The Bonded-Core Bullet

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Talyn

Thread 'The .30-06 Springfield'

In Rifles, Ammunition and Hunting, It’s Still the One to Beat!​

The .30-06 Springfield

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Talyn

Thread '.257 Roberts: Is It Time To Bury Ol’ Bob?'

Performance-wise, .257 Roberts can keep up with the best of them, so why is this cartridge so overlooked?​

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.257 Roberts: Is It Time To Bury Ol' Bob?

On paper, .257 Roberts has a lot going for it, so why has this old cartridge been so forgotten? Is it still worth your consideration?
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Talyn

Thread 'The .284 Winchester - The Phoenix of Rifle Cartridges'

The .284 Winchester somehow continues to rise from the ashes of changing rifle fashions. It appeared in 1963 in Winchester’s Model 88 lever-action and Model 100 semiautomatic rifles, and was designed to basically duplicate the ballistics of the .270 Winchester and, to a lesser extent, the .280 Remington in “faster-firing” rifles.

To attain .270 ballistics required more powder capacity than the .308, so Winchester created a slightly fatter and longer case. Its rim was the same diameter as the .308’s. However, the .284’s case in front of the extractor groove measured .500 inch, tapering...
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Ammo prices are coming down here

I was in my LGS yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see 9mm Fiocchi 115 grain ball at $11 per box. That's the best price I have seen since COVID. Now if we could just get .45acp into reasonable territory.
 
KLGunner said:
How can you let us know of posts that need to be moved?

Simply post the URL of the post in this thread, and forum staff will move it.

Example below:

Annihilator

Thread '10mm Ammunition: 7 Things You Need to Know'

Interesting article on the 10mm round, I have the S&W 610, good gun. The 10mm is a good round, but it has it’s limitations like other rounds have.

www.ammoland.com

10mm Ammunition: 7 Things You Need to Know

How utterly miserable life would be if we only had one type of pickup truck, lawn tractor, 80s band, or Chia Pet character? 10mm ammunition another reason to support diversity.
www.ammoland.com www.ammoland.com
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Hey, you used my thread to show how to post ammo/reloading threads, do I get royalties now?? 😬😬😬😬
 
actually, just cleaned up my reloading bench....reloaded only 300 rounds of 9mm....

4.3 grains, Titegroup, 115 plated RN Berry's bullets, 1.135 OAL...

if i go by the book OAL (Lyman 50th edition) none of my CZ's will shoot them....on another site, someone had said he made his OAL to the 1.135, and all his guns shoot perfectly, so i tried it, it works, i'll keep the 9mm OAL at 1.135.

but the one CONSTANT that bugs the crap outta me...is the lee Pro4000 that i use for 9mm....

dang thing, i ALWAYS have to check powder drop, and seating adjustments.....

compared to the Dillon...

on the Lee, i left "some powder" in the hopper from the last usage months ago, just like the Dillon....and all was fine for the first 20 rounds...then it STOPPED dropping powder...

so i take the plastic container off, and "mixed up" the remaining powder in the metal end where the container sits...

all the powder started dropping again

i mean like what da hell......i NEVER have to do that with the Dillon.

i run a dehumidifier in the basement on humid days....

BOTH presses have covers on them when not in use.......

BOTH presses are filled with Titegroup, but only (say) about 1/2 from the bottom of the plastic container.....



but the absolute annoyance of the Lee NEEDING CONSTANT readjustments is down right BS, over the Dillon....

now too, the all too real possibility of the Berry's bullets being a "hair or two" longer every now and then exists, they are not all the exact same size as mentioned in several other websites.

i get my 45 ACP plated 230 grain, .451 diameter bullets from Everglade Ammo.....

too much variance in the Berrys from one bullet to another..>????

making me think i CONTINUALLY NEED to make adjustments..???

no, sorry, i didn't measure each and every bullet........before reloading.

even when i reloaded lead bullets......it was the same aggravating thing with the Lee......CONTINUALLY readjusting the dies


ALL Lee carbide dies in the Lee press, only a Dillon crimp die in the Dillon, all others are Lee carbide dies.

and why oh why does the Lee powder drop NEED constant adjustment as well, when not in use for several weeks or months at a time..???

and the Dillon...does not...????
 
i am being "pro-active" again...

on one of the Dillon facebook pages, a reloader posted this picture..

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its the rod that pushes back the primer bar (the same bar that i have new springs coming this week???)

apparently this bar breaks around or just after the 7K round count.....

so, i ordered up 2 just now.

and when the original one does break..??? i will call Dillon for hopefully a free one.

for you non Dillon guys, it goes where this yellow outline is


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