Originally Posted by
Bullcamp82834
Flags,
I've found that most of the people slamming the belted cartridges are inexperienced handloaders who have had difficulty properly sizing belted cases so they bad mouth them and blame the case for their own shortcomings. Then there are those who have never loaded a cartridge in their lives but parrot what they hear from the former group.
Yep, me too. I don't think they understand the belt exists only for headspacing. They seem to have some misconceptions about it.
I full length size new brass for my 7mm mag, trim it a thousandth less than max length, load a medium load over cheap blem bullets and fireform it to my chamber. After that, all I need to do is neck size and load. I've found belted cases have less brass stretch over multiple loadings. I follow the same procedure for my 375 H&H too.
I've been loading my own ammo for over 30 years now. I rarely shoot factory loads except in my 6.5x55 since I can't beat the Seller & Belloit ammo for accuracy no matter how hard I try. I bought a big supply of it when Natchez had a sale for less than $9 a box. I haven't found belted rounds any harder to load for than unbelted rounds.