Hey guys, I'm pretty new around here and to reloading. A buddy of mine steered me this direction when I had some questions about why some of my reloads were misfiring. I learned from here that the culprit was excessive headspace due to improperly resizing my brass. I think I got that sorted out, and have since enjoyed a 0% misfire rate. So thanks for that.
Anyway, since I've been lurking around here. I've picked up a lot of ideas and have started putting together a "new" rifle. Now that it's about ready to go bang. I have a couple questions.
The rifle started out as Remington 700 ADL in .243 vanilla. I stripped it down to the receiver and screwed on and headspaced a 1-9 Remage barrel in 7-08. I went with a high-tech specialties stock (I will spend the extra on a McMillan Edge next time) I finished inletting and pillar and glass bedded it. Put in a Timney trigger and topped it with a leupold VX-2 3-9 wearing an M-1 turret for elevation adjustment and a CDS dial for windage. I'm curious about those SS fixed fuckers for the next project though.
I started with .308 Lapua brass, necked it down and primed it with WLR primers (just got 1000 CCI 200's and plan to use those in the future). I intend to run Nosler 140 BT's for fire forming and load development purposes as I have a pretty good pile on hand and then run 140 Accubonds for killing shit.
My questions are: do I need to jam the bullet in the lands on the first go around to make sure I get a good fireform or can I load them to fit in the magazine and get good results. Also I need a good starting load using R17 or R19. And, is it worth my time to gun the ELDX 162's at ADL mag length restraints or would that be pissing up a rope? I have PTG DBM on order, but it's going to be time to kill shit before you know it. So I'm going to put installing that off until winter or I might just save it for another project.
Thanks.
Anyway, since I've been lurking around here. I've picked up a lot of ideas and have started putting together a "new" rifle. Now that it's about ready to go bang. I have a couple questions.
The rifle started out as Remington 700 ADL in .243 vanilla. I stripped it down to the receiver and screwed on and headspaced a 1-9 Remage barrel in 7-08. I went with a high-tech specialties stock (I will spend the extra on a McMillan Edge next time) I finished inletting and pillar and glass bedded it. Put in a Timney trigger and topped it with a leupold VX-2 3-9 wearing an M-1 turret for elevation adjustment and a CDS dial for windage. I'm curious about those SS fixed fuckers for the next project though.
I started with .308 Lapua brass, necked it down and primed it with WLR primers (just got 1000 CCI 200's and plan to use those in the future). I intend to run Nosler 140 BT's for fire forming and load development purposes as I have a pretty good pile on hand and then run 140 Accubonds for killing shit.
My questions are: do I need to jam the bullet in the lands on the first go around to make sure I get a good fireform or can I load them to fit in the magazine and get good results. Also I need a good starting load using R17 or R19. And, is it worth my time to gun the ELDX 162's at ADL mag length restraints or would that be pissing up a rope? I have PTG DBM on order, but it's going to be time to kill shit before you know it. So I'm going to put installing that off until winter or I might just save it for another project.
Thanks.