So, I Was In The Loading Room Today...

[tarbe]

Ooops, forgot about the 200 308s I loaded. Been a busy week!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Ooops, forgot about the 200 308s I loaded. Been a busy week!

Acting like you're retired or sumtin!

 

[PARA45]

I’m down to 37 days before I retire and I’ll be able to spend more time at the reloading bench

 

[tarbe]

I’m down to 37 days before I retire and I’ll be able to spend more time at the reloading bench

I will retire when my wife tells me to!

 

[Inline6]

I’m down to 37 days before I retire and I’ll be able to spend more time at the reloading bench

We are very close to the same number!

Only yours are in days, mine is in years.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I’m down to 37 days before I retire and I’ll be able to spend more time at the reloading bench

@PARA45
Your kidding yoursef old son.
When you retire the wife will have you doing the stuff you've been putting if for a while. You will be lucky to see the reloading room let alone go into it.
Womenfolk have a strange way of keeping you busy in ways and with jobs you didn't even know existed.
Bob

 

[PARA45]

@PARA45
Your kidding yoursef old son.
When you retire the wife will have you doing the stuff you've been putting if for a while. You will be lucky to see the reloading room let alone go into it.
Womenfolk have a strange way of keeping you busy in ways and with jobs you didn't even know existed.
Bob

Well sh*t Bob, thanks for deflating my bubble. I may just continue to work then.

 

[Fenstar]

Got moved up to summer cabin in Sandpoint Idaho, for summer. I was supposed to get on weeds, mowing, planting, spring cleaning- I went straight to reloading room and loaded .505 Gibbs, .500 Jeffery and .450 NE! Good to be back!

 

[dchamp]

@PARA45
Your kidding yoursef old son.
When you retire the wife will have you doing the stuff you've been putting if for a while. You will be lucky to see the reloading room let alone go into it.
Womenfolk have a strange way of keeping you busy in ways and with jobs you didn't even know existed.
Bob

So,So, True. Last year the wife and I did a whole house remodel. At the moment I am making her some shelving made from a Mesquite tree we took down a couple of years back. Once that is finished she wants me to build an out door kitchen with a pizza oven. I am glad we are doing it but it just never stops.

 

[PARA45]

About a year and half ago, we decided to change the floors in our house, and we were going to do the work ourselves. My wife and I shook on it, that she would not nag, push, or give me a timeline. We did 3/4 of the house, it took us about two months to do it and we did it without a single argument.

I basically said the same thing for her. I'll be home and I'll do things my way, no nagging, and no timelines, we shook on it. I've been taking 3 days off a week to burn some leave, and Mrs. PARA45 has been happy with my time management and duties.

 

[jduckhunter]

My wife went to spend a few days with our youngest daughter and the grandkids, so you know where I spent my day. Got caught up on 30-06's for Wyoming in a few weeks and also loaded up some nice quiet, sub-sonic 300 BLK's for the upcoming whitetail season here in the neighborhood. Every time I load these things I have to smile a little. It just seems a bit screwy to have your bullet being longer than the case.

 

[jduckhunter]

I did a little experimenting with my 300 BLK while I was loading. I reduced my sub-sonic loads by .3 of a grain of powder and was shocked by the results. My average velocity went from 948 fps down to 806 fps. I was not expecting such a dramatic loss of speed. Accuracy also suffered quite a bit. Lesson learned and now I'm going back to 11.5 gr.

 

[Huvius]

So,So, True. Last year the wife and I did a whole house remodel.

You must be the $6M man!!
We couldn't complete an outhouse remodel in one year!!

I walk down to my reloading bench and after I have a few moments of quiet introspection about my obvious lack of organization and ability to take on one project at a time, I like to open a container of 4198 and take a long slow drag from it.
That olfactory stimulation corrects my previous personal misgivings and sets everything right in the grey cells.
Harmony restored - and then my phone rings...

 

[Ridge Runner]

I did a little experimenting with my 300 BLK while I was loading. I reduced my sub-sonic loads by .3 of a grain of powder and was shocked by the results. My average velocity went from 948 fps down to 806 fps. I was not expecting such a dramatic loss of speed. Accuracy also suffered quite a bit. Lesson learned and now I'm going back to 11.5 gr.

While experimenting reload data on my 22 Hornet, and reading various information. I discovered that I needed to adjust the powder charge increments by .1 to find the best powder charge for a given bullet weight.

I thought that's crazy, a .1 grain is an insignificant amount of powder 1 kernel or a couple, three flakes doesn't make a difference. [Since it doesn't make that much difference in larger calibers. ie. 30-30, 30-06, 6.8 SPC, etc, powder charge weight at +/-.2 grains]

That .1 grain makes a lot of difference in that little caliber. In velocities and accuracy. I went up .3 at .1 grain at a time same powder, same powder charge weight, works for both the 45 grain and the 50 grain bullets.

Another tidbit on reloading for MY Ruger model 77 22 Hornet; according the the reloading manuals: Hornady, Speer, Sierra, Lyman, and RCBS. The C.O.A.L. for the 45 grain is the same in all 4 manuals 1.723. The C.O.A.L. for the 50 grain varies: 1.723, 1.740 and 1.750. The C.O.A.L for 55 grain FMJ bullets is 1.780.

Moving both the 45 and 50 grain bullets to a C.O.A.L. of 1.760 to 1.775 also improved the accuracy.