Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
On reloading...
unfy:
COAL is a general safety for regulating pressure and stuff.... as well as for reliable feeding from magazines and stuff.
With my above post relating to head spacing issues ... it will undoubtedly cause relations to COAL as well (seating deeper/lighter will change COAL).
It's possible that if you tune your seating depth for ever so slight run to the grooves, that the cartridge will be too long to cycle through magazines and stuff.
Experiment, 5-10 rounds at a time.... just barely nudging things as you go.
And honestly ...
Grab your starting load, shoot it from a bench with rests / bags and stuff.
Stick within the recipes and keeping an eye on your weapon / yourself / brass for pressure issues and stuff... while adjusting powder levels 5% higher at a time...
I'm willing to bet that outside of ultra precise benchrest shooting... your weapon will far out perform you as far as accuracy.
And, when you go to change powder charges of seating depths... always do it in groups of 5-10 rounds ... and if you make up SEVERAL batches of different charges or depths, make sure everything is clearly labeled somehow... and take pen / paper with you to the range to take notes... and shoot at different targets with each load.
A-FIXER:
--- Quote from: Neeco on February 04, 2013, 02:56:14 PM ---
Perfect. I will give that a shot.
Now what about COAL. Is there a way to test headspacing? A measuring guide? Or another one of those "unless you're trying to shoot a bees wing at a mile" stick within this certain range....
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The Hornady Compartator works well get the curved one but again you're limited on max length in your AR...period unless you feed them 1 at atime.
Neeco:
--- Quote from: A-FIXER on February 04, 2013, 03:07:34 PM ---
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Ha, no offense taken. But I still don't understand this sentence: "You maybe happily suprised and the normal book set length as and longer that the mag allows you will have issues".
:D
Neeco:
--- Quote from: unfy on February 04, 2013, 02:54:39 PM ---PS!!!
Congrats on your first hand loads of 223! :)
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Thanks! I was a bit nervous chambering the first one. I won't lie, it had its own special type of "puckering" involved.
A-FIXER:
--- Quote from: Neeco on February 04, 2013, 03:13:05 PM ---
Ha, no offense taken. But I still don't understand this sentence: "You maybe happily suprised and the normal book set length as and longer that the mag allows you will have issues".
:D
A buddy loads 50 gr barnes varmint gernades and his AR 16'' barrel will group 1.25'' at 300 meters.. almost just as good as my Savage .204 26'' SS Bullbarrel which is .50 at 300 meters...
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