kentuckyshooter
07-05-2015, 03:01 PM
Hi all just wanted to post up a simple ideology I uses for next to everything and I am applying it to my new hobby. I call it reloading kiss style, no not painting my face and rocking out while reloading. Kiss stands for keep it simple stupid. This basically means boiling things down to their simplest form and working on one aspect at a time.
This is mainly to help fellow newbies but it might help some old timers work threw a difficult problem they are encountering. A great example I can give is in my excitement to get started I made a few test loads and fired them. From initial tests I settled on a powder charge of 3.6 grain. Further testing showed that it wouldn't cycle the action properly and I had some leading at the muzzel. I uped the charge to 3.9 grain bassed on additional test loads and changed lube. Now the gun cycles perfectly but leads considerably. To fix this I started a process of elimination, starting with the simple things first. I looked at the lube that was being used. I'm using a tl bullet with lla. From research on here this should be a magic combination. Next I looked at fit. I sluged the barrel and my fit as cast was good. I decided to look at my aloy. I had been water dropping them and thought many they were to hard and couldn't obtrued to seal the boor when fired. I cast a batch and allowed them to air cool. I have them loaded and ready to test. My next step may be to go to a harded aloy. I got to thinking that when I upped my charge it upped pressure and many my water cooled range scrap boolits arnt hard enough for the higher pressure.
While I have several theory's to test the key is to change only one variable at a time. This way I can be sure the results I got are the result of what I changed. This is very important becouase if u change several things at once you have to rework every thing to try and isolate what's causing the problem.
I know I tend to ramble so I'll finish this thought up with this. It's easy to be overwhelmed with to much info. Just take your time and take it one step at a time. Find your base to work off of and work your loads up one component at a time. I believe this will yeld better results in the long run an save you a lot of headache.
This is mainly to help fellow newbies but it might help some old timers work threw a difficult problem they are encountering. A great example I can give is in my excitement to get started I made a few test loads and fired them. From initial tests I settled on a powder charge of 3.6 grain. Further testing showed that it wouldn't cycle the action properly and I had some leading at the muzzel. I uped the charge to 3.9 grain bassed on additional test loads and changed lube. Now the gun cycles perfectly but leads considerably. To fix this I started a process of elimination, starting with the simple things first. I looked at the lube that was being used. I'm using a tl bullet with lla. From research on here this should be a magic combination. Next I looked at fit. I sluged the barrel and my fit as cast was good. I decided to look at my aloy. I had been water dropping them and thought many they were to hard and couldn't obtrued to seal the boor when fired. I cast a batch and allowed them to air cool. I have them loaded and ready to test. My next step may be to go to a harded aloy. I got to thinking that when I upped my charge it upped pressure and many my water cooled range scrap boolits arnt hard enough for the higher pressure.
While I have several theory's to test the key is to change only one variable at a time. This way I can be sure the results I got are the result of what I changed. This is very important becouase if u change several things at once you have to rework every thing to try and isolate what's causing the problem.
I know I tend to ramble so I'll finish this thought up with this. It's easy to be overwhelmed with to much info. Just take your time and take it one step at a time. Find your base to work off of and work your loads up one component at a time. I believe this will yeld better results in the long run an save you a lot of headache.