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How compulsive are you? - srjdsmith - 04-05-2024 If you had a Redding, model #3 How often would you weigh a charge? Let’s say you’re loading .44 mag, just high of center in the load bracket, for hunting. Would your answer change if you were loading a grain under max (in the Hornady manual)? What about .223 or .45 ACP for the range? RE: How compulsive are you? - tommag - 04-05-2024 I usually check every 10th one but use a flashlight to look at all of them when they're together in the loading block. If I were on the ragged edge I might weigh every one. A lot depends on how nicely the powder meters. H335 vs 4064 or unique, for example. RE: How compulsive are you? - olfart - 04-05-2024 I weigh about every tenth unless I'm pushing the upper limit, then I check every fifth. I also installed a short strip of LED white lights in the top of my press so I can visually check that powder is present before seating a bullet. RE: How compulsive are you? - specops56 - 04-05-2024 I weigh them at random. Terry RE: How compulsive are you? - tommag - 04-05-2024 When I was chasing tiny groups in a rifle I would weigh every charge in addition to sorting brass by weight/uniforming primer pockets/ deburring flasholes/turning necks. RE: How compulsive are you? - olfart - 04-05-2024 And then there's those who shoot Greek military surplus .30-'06 from an 81-yr-old Garand and still manage minute-of-buffalo accuracy with iron sights at 1,123 yds. RE: How compulsive are you? - tommag - 04-05-2024 (04-05-2024, 10:37 PM)olfart Wrote: And then there's those who shoot Greek military surplus .30-'06 from an 81-yr-old Garand and still manage minute-of-buffalo accuracy with iron sights at 1,123 yds.The hxp was pretty good ammo. Is it still around? RE: How compulsive are you? - olfart - 04-06-2024 In my closet, yes. Other than that, anybody's guess. I think CMP ran out of it several years ago unless they found another stockpile. RE: How compulsive are you? - tommag - 04-06-2024 (04-06-2024, 08:11 AM)olfart Wrote: In my closet, yes. Other than that, anybody's guess. I think CMP ran out of it several years ago unless they found another stockpile.I probably have 600 hxp 303 British I no longer need. Nobody around here wants it anymore. |