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Also:

"This size of the backstop is directly proportional to your ability to hit the bullseye"

If I go out and plaster the whole backstop with paper to be sure I'll see the first shot from a new rifle/scope combination, I'll be on the single target sheet in the middle. If I only staple up one target sheet, I'll miss it by a mile.





Try this next time: take out your bolt. Look down the bore and aim it at the paper target. Look up and through your scope and see how far off the scope looks. I make adjustments like this before I fire the first round. I'm usually within 7" on the first shot of the bullseye...lucky I guess.
 
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Here is another I just discovered over the weekend-

The amount of money you save by accepting some free brass is more than offset by the number of decapping pins bent by the berdan primed cartridges hiding with the boxers.
 
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I also have a floor that allows dropped primers to pass through it.Cool!!
 
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I cant believe that no one has mentioned the FACT that right after you have either placed an order or searched the town for the best buy on exactly what you want there will very soon be revealed to you a midway flyer or other like sale verifying that you just paid too much.

It is also a given that no matter which powder you decided to try this time, you should have maybe tried the other one. Did someone say something about saving money?

Good thread..
 
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Oh weed hopper,
You have much to learn.
You will buy many gadgets and doo-dads.
You will buy many different brands of powder, bullets, brass, and primers trying to get that "perfect" load. You will never quite get there. (If I stopped buying new stuff now it would still take me 800 years to amortize the cost of what I already have.)
Reloading will make you poorer.
Reloading will also make you very happy.
JCN
 
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How does it not save you any money over buying factory ammo? I guess if you factor in what I would otherwise be getting paid at my day job, plus the cost of components its not cheaper, but looking at it from a strictly dollar for dollar perspective, it saves ALOT of money.
 
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And it never saves you any money over factory ammo.
 
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Yes!!!! I just came across a set of 444 Marlin dies
in a trade. Now I have to find the rifle.

BTW The first thing I do with a new sizing die is
to remove the decaping pin. I do all my decapping
in a decapping die then I clean the cases before
sizing.

Lyle
 
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HankinColorado, I've got a mental image of that lb. of VARGET being deposited on your bench! Now just for s.... & giggles, let a bag of #8 shot tip over and spill on a concrete floor!!! GHD)
 
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Mark,

I have to agree with eldeguello on this one!

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And it never saves you any money over factory ammo.


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It does if you are shooting stuff like .416 Rigby or worse!!





To answer your question:

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Yeah right! And pray tell how many 1/4 used boxes of bullets do you have on your shelf? Don't stammer on me, fess up!





I have about 15 (bullets), 0.416" Speer, 350 gr Magtips (which will be shot up one day soon), and around 3.5 boxes of 600 gr Woodleigh PPSP (0.510") bullets left, they too will go out the barrel sometime (of course I have ~ 130 loaded rounds right now for the 500 and ~ 75 for the 416). I have about 1/2 box of 9.3 bullets (Speer 270 grains) they will be used up, 1/4 box of 9.3 bullets (Nosler 250 gr BT) they will get shot too, but not for hunting purposes. Need to stock up on 0.411 bullets, but waiting to hear how the 360 gr North Forks work out before I do that.

Actually, right now I am out of powder for these cannons, well except for the 0.411 for which I have ~ 1 pound left.

Believe me, it most certainly is cheaper to hand load the big bores!

The strangest thing about #2 listed in the original post on this thread, is that the case head is much heavier so it SHOULD be the first to hit, strangely the case mouth seems to. Yet another proof of Murphy's Law I suppose.

ASS_CLOWN
 
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