Brand new to 7-30 waters always wanted a 94 in said flavor but recently found a contender super 14 barrel; new with nice scope for a price I could live with. So I have some sized and fire formed brass from a nice meneber here and I’ve sized and trimmed some this weekend; first question, or observation the rounds I sized and loaded to fire form where very accurate; as accurate as the 10 rounds of factory Federal I sighted in with. So is this an anomaly or could I actually hunt with these ? So now that these fire formed rounds have been sized and fired after I give them a final trimming will they be even more accurate?
What is case life expectancy?
Should I be annealing these cases? It seemed fairly simple size them from 30 to 284. I didn’t lose a single case to splits or crumpling.
Is this beginners luck or is it a easy as it seems.
And lastly this seems like such an easy accurate shooting cartridge and seems like such a natural for youths why isn’t it more popular?
Seems like a contender carbine would be a perfect first deer rifle for boy of girl, or maybe even a crusty old set in his ways Marine who has a strong opinion on nearly everything.
While just getting my feet wet with the “Waters” it seems to be about perfect for a deer cartridge.
Next question of course is how is it with cast? And what’s your favorite mold? So far I’ve only been JWording it.