Did you notice any accuracy issues as the cracks developed, like P.O.I. shifting? And good work guys...this is useful information for the rest of us reloaders.
I wonder if .223 would fare as well? I have nt measured case wall thickness but would hazard a guess that. 223 is thinner than. 308: this could play a significant roll in case life..
Nah, that's a light/medium load. A hot load would probably be closer to 2650 fps or maybe even more. I'm not too familiar with this bullet/powder combo so I'm not positive.But since I don't reload .308, I was wondering is the 46.1 grn of varget behind a 165 gr bullet a fullpower load? By the 2425fps it seems close from what I remember. So would you consider this light, medium, or full power. I plan to begin reloading 8mm Mauser soon and since the case is between 30-06 and .308 this info may be useful to me. I'd like to make my brass last as long as posible.
Nah, that's a light/medium load. A hot load would probably be closer to 2650 fps or maybe even more. I'm not too familiar with this bullet/powder combo so I'm not positive.
Just got my 8mm dies last 1500, and don't have any reloadable brass except for 3 boxes of S&B I have not shot yet so I'm still researching. May reload some 54R just to see If I can improve accracy for Vintage Rifle matches, would like to find a common powder for both. Data that came with the dies isn't looking good for a common powder.
BTT, to make this easy to find for shibumiseeker (update incoming).
Just a teaser, we started testing Neck-size only annealed, FL size annealed, and FL size non-annealed.
We were intrigued by the results of the FL sized test (brass has failed already in only 2 shooting sessions).
So for the full length resized with annealing we got an average of 13.2 firings case life.
For the full length resized with NO annealing we got an average of 16.8 firings which is about 27% longer life and much less growth in length.
Pics to follow.
One side note: out of the 1000 Wolf primers we were using we encountered one that had the anvil improperly installed leading to failure to fire. Upon inspection we noted the anvil was put in backwards.
I'll let CountryBoy19 answer the question about the annealing process as that was his specialty.
As shibumiseeker said, this isn't dead, just put on hold for a while. I just got back in country a few weeks ago from my deployment and I have a ton of things to catch up on around the house. I'm thinking that we can probably pick back up on this sometime in the next 3-4 weeks if we can get our schedules to mix and my wife will let me out of her sight.Broom_jm, we're not done with the test yet, it's just life got in the way. We are using CountryBoy19's rifle and he went downrange for several months. It was hard enough for us to get together before then just because of the mismatch in our schedules. We'll get it finished one of these days, it's not been dropped. I'm too much of a scientist to let an experiment with this much investment not get finished
As shibumiseeker said, this isn't dead, just put on hold for a while. I just got back in country a few weeks ago from my deployment and I have a ton of things to catch up on around the house. I'm thinking that we can probably pick back up on this sometime in the next 3-4 weeks if we can get our schedules to mix and my wife will let me out of her sight.