Hey fellas, I have now gone to the shooting of only Black in my LRE. The groups are so much better than with smokless but I have a question. My load is 65gr by weight with a 30 veggie wad and a 535 Lyman. My question is, the way I compress my powder is not normal from what I see here. I bell my cases just a touch with my RCBS die. I then fill with powder and place the wad over. Then I use my die with the bell sizer to compress. It places the the wad down to the perfect height for the boolit to hand fit to the last ring above the lube groove. I then run it through my seater to put a slight roll crimp on. The boolit can still spin but can not move out. It seems to crimp just below the last ring or maybe on it.
The groups have been fantastic at 100yrds. Today in some wind the group was 3/4 of an inch or less. My question is can I compress the powder too much? Or can I hurt anything by mashing with the bell sizer post? I Know if I shoot a different lenght boolit I will need to get a true compression die. But this just seemed to have all the stars line up for this load. Going to try and get a doe on Monday to see how the cast behaves on live targets.
Also, I sighted in for 1 inch high at 100, I did not have a chance to shoot at 50 yet. Do any of you have any idea how high I may be at 50 with that setting?
Sorry for being long winded
Matt