What Rifle Reloading Did You Do Today?

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July always gives me a boost with my reloading. I'm usually reloading and shooting hard through mid-April, but that decreases in proportion to the rising temperatures, with 100º reached by the first week of July. Thank goodness the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department public hunting system posting the various online applications on the first of July as that always gets my mind on all the possibilities and provides my reloading and shooting with a boost!

I applied for 14 different hunts and have a couple to go yet. The planning that goes on in my head always pulls something out of a corner that hasn't been used much, something I've wanted to work on, but have been too busy with other reloading projects. Here are the new projects this year.

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Both the 7.62x39 and 300 Savage work are using longer than SAAMI cartridge overall length, but the rifles chambers and magazines allow for it. The 35 Remington has pretty anemic performance due to the SAAMI pressures required for the original firearm's chambered in this cartridge. The Remington 600 will be loaded to 358 Win pressures (65K PSI).
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I does so like them Rem.600's!!
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orerancher wrote:I does so like them Rem.600's!!
Me too! The 35 Rem's sure have gotten expensive on the auction sites.
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I loaded 20 rounds of 444 with 265gr Hornadys, 10 rounds with a 290GC Beartooth bullets, and 15 rounds of 265RD (270gr avg) over RL7. And, I loaded 18 rounds of .35Rem with 200gr Rem RN over RL7 for my Wife's 336D.
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Ranch Dog wrote:
orerancher wrote:I does so like them Rem.600's!!
Me too! The 35 Rem's sure have gotten expensive on the auction sites.
They all have!
Been lookin for Years for a 6.5 mag that I can afford...

and the Holy Grail of 600's....the .223
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orerancher wrote:Been lookin for Years for a 6.5 mag that I can afford...
The 6.5 Rem Mag was very popular here in South Texas. I know a ranching family that still shoots their original rifles. About 20 years ago, I set them for the cartridge. Even found several thousand of the original Remington bullets in bulk bags.

Heritage Arms makes aluminum & steel ribs, trigger guards, and trigger assemblies for them.
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Did a slow run of ammo for my High Point 4595 through the Load-Master. I'm shooting the NOE TL432-234-HP and decided to load it with HP-38. I have an 8 lb jug of that powder that I've had for a decade and hadn't busted the seal on it yet.

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The cases were fully prepped so no problems with primers. Setup a dedicated drum for this load, the press is shared with my Taurus 745. So just the drum needs to be changed out with a cartridge firearm swap along with adjusting the bullet seating die slightly against a dummy cartridge for each kept on hand. The pistol is using up my last can of Hercules Unique.

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Yesterday, 50 rnds 38-55. WW cases once fired, Mo Bullets #1 Ballard 245 grain resized to .377, 33 grains H4198. This load constantly averages 2000 fps with the MagnetoSpeed.

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In my natural progression for reloading everything I shoot around ten years ago I work up a couple 150 gr. loads for my SKS rifles to duplicate my own version of the Russian 154 gr. SP loads. I used both the Speer 150 gr. HCSP and the PPU 150 gr. BTSP and both proved to be very accurate loads with the Speer being the most accurate.
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I ran a batch of 6.8 through the decap , size , and flair steps , 120 or so .
I know it's shameful but it's been so long since I ran any rifle loads at all that I had really forgotten how nice those green tools are to run . Of course the ARP barrel is so tight that there's not a lot of sizeing to do anyway .
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