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Old 07-15-2005 | 02:48 PM
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bigcountry
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Default RE: Question from a future beginner

I hate to say it, but its impossible. You can lucky with just the right load.

Unless you got a buddy to give you pointers, its a learning process. Whats important, whats not important.

I know I wanted the same when I started. And made alot of mistakes over trying to be perfect from the start. I hope you got a few people to help you get started. Some books will make you go crazy.

For match grade, bullet runout, and neckrunout will be your biggest enemies. I have seen alot of people start reloading, and most all wants to take shortcuts where they shouldn't, but put so much effort into things that give you miniscule gains.

For example one new loader, I seen was trying to lock down his locknut on his dies so he wouldn't have to set them up again. His shoulders was different eachloading. And he couldn't shoot the same ammo in different rifles. Setting your shoulder the same everytime is important. A head and shoulders gauge from stoney point will help this.

Then others put so much effort in loading .001" from the rifling and gets themselfs into trouble. Others have neglected chamfering and neck lube, to have necks pulled all out of wack. You could see the bullet wobble by spinning in thier hands.
This is where my concentricity gauge is great. You can actually see you mistakes.

I regret alot of things I have bought. I regreted digital scales to only send them back. I have regreted compitition necks sizing dies, neck turning tools, neck thickness gauges. But one thing I don't regret is a heads and shoulders gauge and bullet comparitor and real nice calibers. Also my concentricity gauge I love too.

Key to match grade is repeatability. You can always adjust the load for accuracy.
 
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