I’m using up some Win 571. It’s perfectly good powder so I’m making some field loads for pheasant.
The Hodgdon 2002 manual has a good load: 1 3/8 oz shot in a Win WAA12R wad over 35.5 gr. of HS-7. Should deliver 1285 fps. According to the MEC bushing chart, bushing #29 should deliver 35.0 grains of HS-7
In actual practice I’m getting 32.5 grains. In the olden days, Dad never actually weighed charges and just believed whatever MEC and the manual said. Would you change the bushing to get closer? Bushing #31 throws 35.2 grains.
1) deprime- either with a universal depriming die or a depriming tool
2) wet tumble and dry
3) inspect- cracks, bulges, etc and discard bad cases
4) resize- I always do 5-10 more so that some can be weeded later
5) flare
6) prime
Now comes the question:
Powder in all
Bullets in all
Or
Powder & bullet one at a time then next case powder & bullet
Aside from the usual bs regarding food, drink, politics, hemorrhoids, etc, it appears that despite the time, expense, and effort, this new forum as many firearms sites are, fast running out of gun topics and and meaningful discussion. Other than the usual my gun is bigger than your gun, it appears many gun topics for the average stiff have been cussed and discussed. Perhaps there's a good crew-served weapons forum to check out.
