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Patton, I respectfully disagree with the light handling comment. ALTHOUGH this applies to handloaders ONLY. If you only shoot factory ammo, the I'm inclined to agree. I have loaded some 200g roundnose boolits with AA nitro 100 chronographing an average of 800 fps that were a blast to shoot. They'd bring a smile to anyone's face at how docile they are.

Despite some people's opinions, the 45 colt, when chambered in a Blackhawk or equivalent, CAN compete with the 44 mag on most any level. There's a hornets nest argument there, but read some of John Linebaugh's writings on the matter. He's is for fact and for certain more experienced on the matter than most nay sayers. Some of his loads are scary. I use his data and they are VERY stout, but highly manageable.

Prefer the dark here. I switched to the brighter version and I was:

My first thought when I read the OP was friends some burgers and beer. If the safe proves too heavy, you didn't buy enough beer. Just be wary of any comment resembling "Hey ya'll, what if we tried this...."

Saving that one for the afterparty should we survive long enough to have one.

Me too Lester. I have an LED light that clips on the brim of my hat. Couldn't live without it!

You could always ask. Worst they do is say no. I shot with a group a few times and the only pistol i had at the time didn't qualify. They let em shoot anyway, then I was disqualified at the end of the match. I came in close to last anyway and I only wanted to play along for the fun of it so whoopedydo right?

I don't use it, but if you are getting good accuracy and no unburned powder left in the barrel, I don't see where you could go wrong. Honestly, I think a magnum primer is fairly useless. There are few loads that TRUELY need the extra oomph, and few of those actually get you any real world advantage. Took me a while to mature to the idea that more is NOT more.

I just bought a pile of Hornady match 308 brass from a another member here. Great looking stuff, once fired. I have separated it for it's final destinations. The lot I am sending to my Savage model 10PC is what I am indecisive about. This rifle is my most accurate and the one I take great pains with. I neck size only for this rifle and never mix brass (duhh). I only use Hornady Match brass and I plan to add some of what I bought to what I use for this rifle (still separated in lots though) I was going to full length resize and load them with the load already proven for this rifle, but on a whim, I run several of these once fired cases through my rifle and they all chamber easily. I put a single strip of scotch tape, just enough to simulate the shoulder being a few thousandths longer and I feel resistance before the bolt closes. I neck sized one case and loaded a bullet to proper length and it chambers easily. Wouldn't I be un-necessarily working the brass by full length resizing? It seems taboo because it's been formed to another chamber, but it fits very well. My most accurate load is relatively light and pretty easy on brass. Good thing because i like to get the most loading I can safely get. That, and NOT accuracy is why I stared neck sizing in the first place. [i'll never be as accurate as this rifle anyway] Thoughts?

Where I work, if I for some reason didn't have my EDC on my hip, my father in law would ask me "What the hell's wrong with you? Ya feelin' sickly?"

That's right. Tula can make ammo a lot faster than Lapua, but......

Win, win! And you ain't even gotta get off the couch!

Oh now It only takes a bit of planning and some entry level understanding of volume production to make sure each move you make isn't wasted. Time is made on silly trivial things when numbers are involved. Things as simple as how far you have to extend to reach something or the angle of the press arm. Teaching your fingers the manual dexterity it takes to remove one round from the press with the next one already in hand; Exchanging them in one fluid motion. Seems silly until you start keeping record of the time spent for one specific operation or the other. Once I get my rhythm I can run rounds through a crimping die without stopping the reciprocating motion of my press; exchanging a crimped round for an uncrimped round on the downward stroke and tossing the crimped round in one tub while picking up an uncrimped round from another on the upward stroke.

For what I do it's perfect for me as well. I load a lot of cast boolits and I like to see everything that goes on. In fact I just came back in from loading 50 308's with a 100g cast boolit. I was planning on fireforming this lot without a projectile, but I though "WHY?" When i could shoot at dirt clods and imaginary zombies while doing it. Occasionally you might shave a bit of lead if your boolit isn't perfectly straight, and I like to mark the tip with a sharpie to see if accuracy or leading occurs. On the other hand, I recently loaded a few thousand 9mm's with boolits I cast and did them all on the same press. Didn't take as long as some would groan about. I have a Lee C press sitting next to the classic I use maily for my crimping dies. ...but as long as it's safe...to each his own.

You said ​mass debaters.

Yeah he is, I bought some surplus powder and pile of ss109's from him. I need to get some more from him.

This is why no amount of talk and praise can get me to go progressive. I do thousands and thousands every year on my humble little Lee Classic cast press. I prep all the brass I have, then prime them all with a hand primer. Then I use old ammo trays from factory ammo. Fifty at a time. You can charge all fifty in the tray with minimal dexterity. Set it on the bench and you can visually verify every powder charge as you set bullets in place by hand. You all can keep your automated stuff. Never had a squib here. Wanna keep it that way.

It's pretty helpful to me when I forget to click mark forums read​ before logging out. Keeps me from diggin' through stuff I may have already seen.

You should PM our very own DLM37015. He will hook you up as cheap as anyone.

I do believe it's for everyone, so long as David's rules are followed.

OTIS I use an otis cable for most of my cleaning. I do use a heavy brass rod for pushing a jag though.

His avatar??? I thought Mike WAS​ Red Foreman.

Looks great. Was a bit of a shock as I just woke up about 10 minutes ago.

We don't do the gift thing here. Any christmas I'll be getting will be delivered USPS with a Midway label on it. Ya'll are crazy for rubbing elbows with the delusional masses.

I doubled the 3/4 as well with the top layer being cabinet grade birch plywood. I didn't really want to finish it, but I did rub it down lightly with some Johnsons Paste wax to keep crap from soaking in. It's rock solid though I never beat on it. Having my scales and other stuff on there, I'd rather not pound it. That's why you take and old wheel from a dually truck, weld in a length of schedule 80 pipe, then fill pipe and wheel with cement. When dry I welded a small anvil from harbor freight to the top of it. Good luck!