janfred
@janfred
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Joined: May 31, 2022
Last seen: Jun 5, 2026
Topics: 12 / Replies: 406
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Re: Help me figure out what's going on. Changing ES and SD

I have no idea what the difference in humidity is between your reloading room and the shooting range. What has been made clear by people more clever t...

3 years ago
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Re: Help me figure out what's going on. Changing ES and SD

What powder, bullets and brass are you using? Calibre of the rifle?Do you leave the powder in the hopper? How exactly do you prepare your brass? What ...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

Another mistake.Turns out you cannot turn a Lee 9mm sizing die shorter in the lathe. All you do is remove the steel rim that keeps the carbide ring in...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

Waar kry ek 14mm o-rings? Enige ingeneurswese winkel. Iets soos Fowlkes Brothers in Paarden Island. Mica of Midas mag dalk ook hĂȘ.Dit hoef nie noodwen...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

The short story. I needed a neck-sizing die, but none was available in SA at the time. I had a 32ACP sizing die available and it is almost the right s...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

Probably not that costly. You would pretty much see the results after the first case.I use a .32 ACP sizing die to neck-size my 303 brass. Turns out t...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

LMBTAQ What is the difference between reloading and driving a car?A The potential to kill people are higher when you screw up driving a car than if yo...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

Using a Dillon decaping die in my Lee Loadmaster because Dillon is "better" than Lee.That was a lot of money I could have spent on bullets o...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

I'm not too worried about microscopic brass shavings. Those usually get ironed out when the bullet is forced through an orifice at 55,000 psi and...

3 years ago
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Re: Any SA Bisley members on the forum ?

In Cape Town we use the military range at Atlantis.In Bloem they use De Brug military range.

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

Emptying the powder hopper of S341 into a tin of S335.Lesson learnt. Only one type of powder out of storage at any one time. Did that once with ball i...

3 years ago
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Re: Herlaaifoute/ Reloading mistakes

Emptying the powder hopper of S341 into a tin of S335.Lesson learnt. Only one type of powder out of storage at any one time.

3 years ago
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Re: Doppler chronograph by FX

We went from the era of "Ooh, that kicked a bit!" to "Primer is not completely flat yet" to "The carbon fouling inside the ca...

3 years ago
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Re: Tribute to the Lee Safety Scale

Just don't use your finger to wipe away imaginary dust off the beam razor blade pivot.No need to ask me how I know...

3 years ago
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Re: Tribute to the Lee Safety Scale

Basically, that is how the Prometheus powder thrower measures loads. The Lee scale always get a lot of hate. Most notably for the decimal adjustment. ...

3 years ago
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