414gates
414gates
@414gates
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Joined: May 16, 2022
Last seen: May 19, 2026
Topics: 139 / Replies: 432
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Re: Tales from the reloading Room

.. but the second half gave a pretty good explanation why it is a bad idea to have an oily chamber or oiled cases.The British .303 was proof tested us...

8 months ago
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Re: Tales from the reloading Room

Up until this point, I did not explicitly notice that case length increases after full length sizing.I was looking at the length of fired brass, and t...

8 months ago
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Re: Altering scope mountings to accomodate more height adjustment

... and don't want a 20MOA picitinny rail limiting the size of the loading bay.There are 2 solutions with the rail.1. The port facing side of the...

9 months ago
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Re: Gunsite.co.za

It happens that Gunsite is unavailable for days on end. The site went through a time when there was no site admin, causing uneccessary downtime.Their ...

10 months ago
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Re: IMR 4166 - odd residue

The Enduron line of powders, of which the 4166 is one, was discontinued by Hodgdon around 2022, and no specific reason was given.They were marketed as...

10 months ago
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Re: IMR 4166 - odd residue

Does that green stuff not look very much like the 'bullet weld' we find in very old ammo ?

10 months ago
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Re: IMR 4166 - odd residue

So the batch prior to this was uneventful.This batch gave 6 misfires from 22 rounds.There was a lot of green, and these were reloaded 2 days ago.Whate...

10 months ago
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Re: License Cards - How long do they take ?

I didn't take note of the dates, but it seemed to me that this year, the cards were being printed astonishingly quick compared to years prior.

10 months ago
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Re: IMR 4166 - odd residue

I have, velocity is not degraded, no misfires, no velocity spikes.I had loaded some rounds from this a couple months ago, and I only poured as much as...

10 months ago
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Re: Sticky bolt of the other kind.

I presume the thread is fairly fine? It is a fine thread, I didn't measure what it is.

10 months ago
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Re: Sticky bolt of the other kind.

Those pictures look like a screwed on collar. There is a definite undercut visible in the second picture, where the body of the bolt in is the collar,...

10 months ago
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