The ppc is at home in the bench rest space , that market is already established and there so what's the point ? It would be the same as trying to push the 257 Roberts to the tactical hunting crowd
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The ppc is at home in the bench rest space , that market is already established and there so what's the point ? It would be the same as trying to push the 257 Roberts to the tactical hunting crowd
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.22 to the dome , pull them out , fresh dirt on the bottom,keep going. About anything else is a waste or time
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Still lokkinga d at getting I to it for some custom .17cal heavy pills
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Seems a guy could make it easy by just running. The lead really hit and have all the jackets sitting in a toaster oven. 725 lead 400 jackets , , would be a lil slow but not too bad imo.
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Found this while cruising around the interwebs, very interesting [emoji848][emoji848] ...
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I do both 6.5 Grendel and 7.62x39 and their pretty easy as far as getting them to work and no hard to find cast specific powders
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Can't find a current production 6ppc AR barrel but can find arcs or even 6mm Grendel pretty easy
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And I also have to say they have these podcast people can listen to ( even though most won't because it's 40min and not a bite sized paragraph) that explain everything, and with 6 and 22 ARC they...
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There also a lot of stuff dealing with case design and the actual chambering.
Yes yes the idea was there with ( insert old cartridge) but there have been advancements with cartridges designs...
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Cost and out of the box / off the shelf affordable rifles ,ammo ,brass ect
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Like I said 30 cal and up just ain't my thing. I play with it but meh, even on the jacketed side I like small stuff
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As I said in the original post the ARC is "new" but not really. People been necking down the Grendel to .6mm and .22 cal since it came out in what , 2011 ? The ARC is just the sammi spec'ed version....
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Other then everything not costing a arm and a leg and being easily accessible and low cost ?
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Meh, honestly I'm just not a fan of big heavy chunks of .30 cal lead , just isn't very interesting to me for the most part. Eveyone does that ,has been done a million times.....meh...
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So seems to me that 7.62x39 case is just GREAT for cast bullets. My 7.62x39 ar was easy to get shooting , same with my 6.5 Grendel. That size case just works and seems most books will have a load...
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Wait where did her say we needed to go to 3k ?
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I personally do t crimp anything all my testing just shown me there no real point with how I do it
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Yeah I'm thinking once I get them up to 21-2200fps they will do better really need to cast up some .ore now that I got some nicer alloy
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I just used clip on wheel weights , and water dropped them out the mold then out the oven . Got her up to 20bhn if I remember right, easy peasy
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Yeah think that was the first one I used to playing. With seating depth.
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Probably will weight sorry when I get a little more serious with these....that being said someone on here had a big ong post about how it don't honestly help much so idk
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Just a really quick deal. Found a lil jar of MP 63 gr .227 hps I had down up a while ago. Sized them again in the .226 sizer to make sure they where right. Had some primed brass made up already for...
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I haven't yet and honestly no not really. Especially since j usually bake the PC over the gc
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |