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14 years 6 months ago #3948 by BUILDING MY SASS
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Well OldPaint...you are going to find a few different techniques, some will say this, some will say that,....it all depends on were you're at... :dry:
but I will aid you if I can...something to check out...Make some pop corn...and enjoy ;)

www.ar10t.com/21-reloading/2927-reloading-videos.html

BMS

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14 years 6 months ago #3949 by The Duck of Death
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What are you hop[ing to achieve?

I was a high power shooter and was chasing the perverbial one hole, 10 round group at 600 yards....

...that and match ammo cost too dang much.

If you just interested in cheap ammo get a decent lttle book and go at it. Start at the mid to minimum loads.

If you're after the "ONE HOLER" get a book from Sinclair International and get your wallet out.

After more than 38 years of shooting, I can say it's one of the funnest things I've ever done in my life and well worth the price.

My wife on the other hand thinks I'm a freaking idiot.

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14 years 6 months ago #3950 by oldpaint
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I can't wait to hear. How should I prep my brass for the AR? Ihave bought the brass, bullets and a lube kit.

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14 years 6 months ago #3954 by The Duck of Death
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For new, virgin brass;

Get some decent yet cheap facotry ammo and shoot a few rounds through your rifle. Save the brass and get an RCBS MIC Case Checker thingy. This will allow you to see what you chamber looks like. Match shooters call this fire forming your brass. If you do this you will know where your chamber is and you resize your brass with our OVER resizing, or OVER working it and get many more loads out of it.

Lube your brass, lightly and neck size it to the specs you determined from the step above.


...Get a book!

Read it. This is going to take way too long.

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14 years 6 months ago #3956 by MikeS.
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I've read several places that a semi-auto needed to be full length re-sized. No?

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14 years 6 months ago #3957 by oldpaint
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I have reloaded for bolt guns. I always neck sized. I used my friends equipment and they always preped the brass. They have never reloaded AR ammo. I am a hunter and have a wild game ranch, so I am basically looking for ammo to hunt. I have lots of hogs ANC like the ear shot so I don't have to track them. All my bolt action rifles can do it. I have a 6.8 AR too, but use factory ammo. It shoots great groups though. It I'd cheaper for now to buy the 6.8 loaded ammo from SSA then reload. I will reload the 6.8 this year with the new 95 TTSX for my daughter. That is why I got into ARs to begin with. The 6 point stock allows my daughter to shoot a larger grain bullet without me having to put a youth stock on one of my other guns. Her .223 just does not leave enough of a blood trail or do enough damage.

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14 years 6 months ago #3958 by BUILDING MY SASS
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MikeS.....in answer to your question, "that a semi-auto needed to be full length re-sized. No?"......YES! especially with the .308.

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14 years 6 months ago #3959 by The Duck of Death
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I set my AR .308 brass back about .003". It functions just fine. Good brass life, good accuracy. This is in my Lilja 26" 3 groove.

YMMV.

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14 years 6 months ago #3969 by MikeS.
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Well I got 20 rounds fully loaded. I used a 147 grain FMJBT surplus bullet, 41 grains of IMR-4895, a Win LR primer and LC 07 brass, COAL of 2.800.

Hornady manual has a 150 grain FMJBT listed at 41 - 45 grains so that is the load data I used. I think the next 20 will have 43 grains of I-4895

The bullet has a cannalure but when I loaded to it the COAL was way too long so it wound up inside the neck. I used a Lee FCD to finish them off.

They all feed and fired well. Their POI was 4" high at 100 yards compared to the DAG 93 surplus I have been shooting and have the rifles scope set at.

I'm curious as to why so much variance in POI. These are both 147 grain bullets. Would powder charge make so much difference?

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14 years 6 months ago #3970 by Hebs
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Different powder, different ammounts of powder, and bullet types will always affect POI.

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