Three Ways to Work up a Powder Charge (EXTREME RELOADING ep. 12)

[@aaronneumeyer5572]

Very enjoyable to watch and you made this section super easy to understand. I'm ready to watch you get to work!

[@sdkweber]

Hello Aaron! Good to hear from you again. We have videos scheduled pretty much weekly for quite a while now all the way through live fire testing at the range. Fun stuff. Thanks again for watching.

[@aaronneumeyer5572]

@@sdkweber Hey, that's great! I love the range time videos and am always impressed to watch you still shoot from the prone. I'll be 59 next week and the 82nd made sure that position became uncomfortable a long time ago, lol. Have a great Friday and super weekend.

[@sdkweber]

@@aaronneumeyer5572 I am not far behind you Aaron. Have a Happy Birthday.

[@jasoneverett7343]

I've had great success with Scott satterlee ladder test.

[@sdkweber]

Scott knows his stuff. No argument there. That is good to hear.

[@joearledge1]

Not to be a Debbie downer, but at this point, Satterlee's 10 shot velocity-nodes have been pretty rock solidly debunked by multiple people and organizations. If you're having success with it, it mostly just indicates that you're using good equipment, good components, and that you're a competent shooter. Basically you'd likely get good to excellent results with any method using the same stuff. But, if it's working good enough for you, keep doing it!

[@justice1327]

Great job! A few things to add. When doing a ladder test shoot at a white paper target and take a permanent marker and color each charge weights bullet with that color. Example if you have four different charge weights, you would use four different colors and write those colors down and how they relate to the charge weight, then when the bullets hit the target, it will leave the permanent marker color on the target. Also recommend using multiple sources to reference what you’re starting charge weight should be. One manufacturers minimum charge weight could be several grains lower than another manufacturers minimum charge weight. I tend to stay away from the minimum I take multiple sources and average out their minimum to max and then take those averages from multiple sources and average them out and that is my starting point.

[@sdkweber]

Thanks DW. Does coloring the bullets with a Sharpie actually transfer to the paper target? Do you have to look really close to see it? I have not tried that.

[@justice1327]

@@sdkweber yes, been doing it for 25yrs…just don’t be shy with the ink

[@sdkweber]

@@justice1327 Cool. That is very good to know. Thanks DW

[@soonersteve3733]

1 recently loaded 25 rounds using Lapua brass and 25 rounds of Alpha brass in 6mmBR. All components were identical except the brass. All chambered and primer seating depth was same using CCI BR4 primers. I was primarily looking to break in the barrel. What happened was every Lapua round fired no problems noted. However every Alpha round failed to fire. The only thing I noticed was what appeared to be light primer strike on the Alpha brass. Any idea what was happening or suggestions? Thanks

[@mikeh5908]

Virgin brass or fired? Might be head space.

[@soonersteve3733]

@@mikeh5908 all virgin brass

[@pennerblogger]

Headspace or primer seating depth or different case rim thickness. Check how tight a case is held by the extractor, the resistance when closing the bolt. Also check your primer seating depth.Did you resize before loading? I don't have a gauge and use a flat surface to Judge to low depth. Too deep primers catch your fingernail in a slightly different way than correctly inserted primers. Also check the primer pocket diameter how good they fit and how hard they were to insert. This is way easier on a hand priming tool.

[@soonersteve3733]

@@pennerblogger I normally never resize new virgin brass. Because I just wanted to fire form the brass to my chamber. I ordered go/no go gauges and that is what I’m going to do next. I will remove the extractor and ejector before I try the gauges. I do know that my chamber was cut to accommodate the liner 105 grain 6mm bullets. I just got my bolt back from blue printing and I am going to test fire a few Alpha and Lapua rounds because the bolt hard issues with firing pin extrusion and drag in the bolt body and bad firing pin spring!

[@justice1327]

Could be a headspace issue. But I am leaning towards the primer pockets are deeper in the alpha Brass. you need to measure the primer pocket in each type of the virgin Brass to determine how deep you need to set your primer. Typically, you want 3 to 5thou below the case head.