414gates
414gates
@414gates
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Joined: May 16, 2022
Last seen: Sep 22, 2026
Topics: 142 / Replies: 445
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Re: Tales from the reloading Room

This is the exact way cases grow. You didn't really think brass flows under a paltry 60kpsi pressure, did you?I don't agree that brass flows...

12 months ago
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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...

12 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...

12 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...

1 year 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 ...

1 year 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...

1 year 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 ?

1 year 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...

1 year 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.

1 year 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...

1 year 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.

1 year ago
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