These may become my bear country 45/70 loads after a thorough vetting. They look mean as hell.
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Check out the RCBS Trim Pro 3-way cutters. Quite a bit cheaper than the Giraud's and I have had excellent luck with them. A little more versatile as well since you only need to buy one per bullet diameter while the Giraud's seem somewhat caliber-specific.Well after this last two weeks of brass prep marathon that we've been going through, we have decided that the Lyman power trimmer is going into the cabinet for a long hiatus or until we get a different caliber that were needing to trim.
The WFT may also be going into the cabinet and the reason being is to save time with chamfering the inside and outside of the cases after trimming.
My friend and I were discussing this today as far as how much time we could save if we didn't have to get on the Lyman case prep center as much.
So after careful deliberation and Internet frenzy turned up the Trim It II, this bad boy trims and chamfers both inside and out like the Girard Triway trimmer. The kicker is that it comes with two caliber insert and you can purchase others.
Ole Caveman needs to think about the coming days where ease of use while reloading will be a godsend.
Well after this last two weeks of brass prep marathon that we've been going through, we have decided that the Lyman power trimmer is going into the cabinet for a long hiatus or until we get a different caliber that were needing to trim.
The WFT may also be going into the cabinet and the reason being is to save time with chamfering the inside and outside of the cases after trimming.
My friend and I were discussing this today as far as how much time we could save if we didn't have to get on the Lyman case prep center as much.
So after careful deliberation and Internet frenzy turned up the Trim It II, this bad boy trims and chamfers both inside and out like the Girard Triway trimmer. The kicker is that it comes with two caliber insert and you can purchase others.
Ole Caveman needs to think about the coming days where ease of use while reloading will be a godsend.
Been working on resizing 300 brass tonight myself. All of it fit case guage post resizing with no re-trmming needed.. Love it..
With "carry" rounds like that, I'll lacquer the primer and case mouth if belled just prior to seating/removing bell.305 grains of lehigh extreme penetrating love.
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Prolly a good idea but I have never had any problems carrying reloaded ammo this way on all my hunting rifles with no sealing. Now that I said that I am sure it will happen, lol. Interesting note, all the lehigh extreme penetrator rounds I have loaded in three different calibers did not need any case mouth belling to fit properly. Neck tension and seating works perfect with no belling.
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I hear you. I only do it to real keepers and only do the mouth if its been belled a bit.
I never bothered trimming any of my Swede brass yet. Had both my Swedes Ackley improved, so my loading data no longer is valid. In addition, I didn't shoot them long enough as Swedes to develop a pet load. The first rifle was dangerous from the day I bought it from another member here, so off to @Velzey it went. He did a fantastic job, and I liked it so much I had the 2nd rifle converted too.I finally loaded my first shouldered rounds to take to the range Friday. Made up 20 .30-06 rounds for the Garand with H4895. Using 150gr Sierra Matchkings. Loaded 5 each at 42, 44, 45, up to the max of 46 grains shown in the Speer 14 book. I noticed lesser recoil at the beginning and up to .46 grains. Recoil seemed to be getting close to what I got from the PPU "For Garand" factory stuff. And ejection was mostly foreward for the lower weights and moved to 905 right at th upper loads. So hard for me to see the red dot, even setting it at 75 yards. I thought groups were fine. Was looking at 3" for three out of the five with the two lighter loads.
Rolling my own rifle rounds is more of a rush than straight wall hand gun!
I'm looking to prep and load some for the Swede. (I need to find the 6.55 pilot for the trimmer first though
What powders do you like, and why. I have IMR 4064 and H4895 which I'm sure I've seen data for in my books. Any peculiarities with 6.5 Swede? Looks to me pretty similar to loading .30-06 for the most part.
I'm sure there are loads with my powders that will work fine for me.
