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Your scale looks as well used as mine.

Good shooting!!

The 225415s I cast don't vary that much. I cast 10 pounds of wheel weights and sorted them.

They ranged from 54.6 to 55.2 with only 6 out side that range, some lighter some heavier.

I was trying to test some 80 grain sierras through my service rifle AR from prone position with the Chrony sitting on the ground. I didn't realize my prone position was as low as it apperently was...

I shoot a lot and I have had maybe a dozen primer failures in the 40 years I have been reloading. Mostly Federal.

Saturdays range report.

M1 Garand 1942 issue. Temp 97° it was early. Barometric press.28.6 uncorrected. Wind 10 to 18 mph.

Bullet Lyman 314299 Water quenched gas checked & sized to .310
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Buckshot I am opening it for use with a 220 grain Lee .329 cast bullet. They cast .331 and that is the minimum size I need so if the die is larger it is not really a problem.

The more I read and...

Thanks for the tip Charlie. Next time I am thinking about doing this I will think again.

I just don't understand why they don't sell an H&I die in every size from .15 to 1 inch.

In the instructions that came with the die it said it was hardened. Since I only needed to remove .006 I thought it couldn't be that hard. I was wrong.

I bought a .325 Lyman H&I die with the intent of opening it up to .331. I didn't think this would be a problem as it is only 6 thousandths of an inch or put another way just 3 thousandths per side.
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Thanks Ben. I appreciate that.

Where do you get the 338 gas checks?

I need some for my 8X56mm Hungarian.

Reliability with 4198 in an AR is marginal even with jacketed bullets. The burn rate is not correct for ARs.

Snaggdit at 2.15 mine are jammed into the rifleing of my Model 70 using the 225415 bullet.

I cast 10 pounds of those little jewels last Sunday.

Shot some today and was very pleased with the results. I shot them out of my Model 70 Heavy Varmint 1/9 twist barrel with aperture sights.

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Did some testing today. It was 94° with 28.48 inches of mercury barometric pressure uncorrected when I started 102° when I finished.

First test was with a Winchester Model 70 Heavy Varmint in 223...

Echo, one of my favorite sayings is, polite conversation ends when you tell someone more than they really want to know about any subject.

You are not there yet.

I must be really slow. I spent...

I just shot 100 of the 225425 in my Winchester Model 70 heavy varmint. 1/9 twist, didn't shoot all that well, 5 inches at 100 yards from sitting. The load is 5.2 grains of Rex1. The cb's are water...

I bought 48 pounds of TAC when it was cheap last year. I got it for $11 pound including delivery.

I have been in load development ever since. I have tried many different bullets, charges, primers...

I went a little different route in modding mine. I had a Krieger heavy barrel put on it, reamed the rear ring of the gas cylinder, glued and screwed the upper hand gaurd to the ferrule, glass bedded...

Shot 100 of the 225415 yesterday. Results were less than spectacular. The group was 4 inches tall and 3 inches wide. This was fired from a sling supported sitting position, single loaded and fired...

I just loaded 100 of the 225415 last night in 223 cases. I'll be shooting them in my 1/9 Model 70. I am loading them with 5.2 grains of Rex1 in LC05 cases with Remington 6 1/2 primers. I'll give you...

I am using 12 grains of Rex 1 in 8X56 Hungarian with a 220 grain Lee cast, 7.62X54 Russian with a 120 grain Lee cast and 30/06 with the same 120 grain Lee cast bullet.

Does very well in the...

I think it may depend on your individual Garand. Mine runs 100% with charges of 4895 as low as 30 grains.

Good going Greg!