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Rocketvapor

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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2023, 07:28:46 PM »
While some of you have been busy putting up TV antennas Flo and I have been loading up ammo for 2023 range trips :)

Made our first trip of the new year today. 
Started out at 8 inch splatter targets @ 600yds. 
We were able to keep MOST hits in the 8" black with the worst wind I have ever shot in. 
Moved in to 300 yards and the 8" targets were a piece of cake.
No 1 MOA targets to show this time. 
Wind let up some and I shot steel.
This is about 20 shots on a 300 yd plate, 2 MOA wide. Pretty much the best of the day.

« Last Edit: January 05, 2023, 07:52:42 PM by Rocketvapor »
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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #31 on: February 06, 2023, 01:40:41 AM »
Now that the balloon is gone (from the sky but not various gun forums) I feel safe to venture out to the rifle range.
Maybe in the morning.

Missed a couple weeks cold/rainy or the Honey Island flooded. 
Was a chance to get ahead with reloading.  Moved the A&D to my little reloading corner.
Click it :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130540888@N07/52670597585/

Here's a short video of the last 2 rounds out of 100 of my 22 Nosler Long Loads.
Target charge for these was increased a tiny bit due to a little longer length.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Hxr1ybK7A
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Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famed-ex-uss-john-f-003916449.html

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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #32 on: February 06, 2023, 07:55:04 PM »
Made a trip to the 800yd range today.

Shot @ 300 E-Target and 6" splatter, and steel. Plate @100 and rack @ 500 are out of the picture

Not a bad shot of the blue 800yd plate with the FZ80.

Some of these are mine, some hers.


Went back over pictures and these two shots were Flo's.  So in the above pic the group on the right was hers, the low group was mine.


Flo has some screen shots of the E-Target on her phone, I think.
Will look through them for bragging pictures tomorrow :)
« Last Edit: February 06, 2023, 09:50:24 PM by Rocketvapor »
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Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #33 on: February 20, 2023, 07:27:31 AM »
Managed to get one practice session in before we made the Feb F-Class Match on the 18th.
Match day was the coldest we have ever shot. Left the house @ 31F, started shooting @ 36F.
But, we had LAYERS on :)
Still not up to par on our scores, but like any range trip, we had fun. Haven't seen the scores yet but I can GUARANTEE we were in the top 10 :)
(and yes Flo beat me again).
Cold wind ate our lunch on windage, but I also had over an MOA in vertical.
We've been trying to fine tune a load with SB6.5 and Berger 85.5s and my dope has increased by about 0.2 MILS, up to 3.3 mils @ 600, since warmer range days. Cold weather has dropped the 600yd velocity (ShotMarker) by about 20-30fps on the 45F trip, and another 10 to 20fps @ 36F. Did have some headwind (12-2 O'clock).
Dope from the JBM calculator shows about 0.1 MIL from the air, and another 0.1 mil from the velocity drop.
Avg across the target was about 1940fps.

Gas was $2.97 so we filled up on the way home.
« Last Edit: February 20, 2023, 07:51:32 AM by Rocketvapor »
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Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #34 on: February 23, 2023, 02:15:55 PM »
Made a practice session today. 
300 yard E-Target.
Shot some groups to compare the Ginex SRP to CCI450.

Both loads were 22 Nosler/Dogtown twice fired cases.
Error in pic.  Should be 32.46gr not 32.426gr
32.46gr Staball 6.5, Berger 85.5, loaded long (3.002" CBTO).

« Last Edit: March 16, 2023, 01:20:20 PM by Rocketvapor »
Well I guess my new **** stirrin paddle don't work . I got a like . WTF 😈

Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famed-ex-uss-john-f-003916449.html

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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2023, 03:13:03 PM »
Looks like your attention to detail really pays off on the little groups there! Very nice work. All tho, I have to ask, did your research find some statistics that had shown annealing brass with a room temp colling is as good as a quench? An old timer from the 80's who liked to hang out in my GS had told me annealing brass wont work unless you hear a slight hiss when the brass hits the water. Only then is the brass thoroughly softened up. That guy was the smartest ol guy I ever knew when it came to alot of things. He was a ship's navigator on a destroyer in WWII, God Rest him. That annealer is pretty wild, Never seen one like that.
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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2023, 06:04:35 PM »
Thanks,
Metallurgists at the Rocket Factory :) say time @ annealing temperature is what matters. 
Quench hiss might just be an indication that the case was hot (enough).

We should have time for another practice trip or two before the next match. 
Just can't do fine load development if you can't get itty bitty groups to evaluate loads.
Maybe today was a fluke, but I did feel good about it. 
« Last Edit: February 23, 2023, 06:15:14 PM by Rocketvapor »
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Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famed-ex-uss-john-f-003916449.html

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Re: Fine Tuning My Reloading
« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2023, 03:49:59 PM »
Made another 600yd match in Bogalusa. 
Warm weather up to today, then cold and windy :banghead:
AND, Flo got a better score than I did  :banghead:

She scored 95% over 60 shots. 
Looks like she may Master Midrange F-class before me.
« Last Edit: March 19, 2023, 09:16:50 AM by Rocketvapor »
Well I guess my new **** stirrin paddle don't work . I got a like . WTF 😈

Flo just received her EXPERT Mid range card from the NRA.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famed-ex-uss-john-f-003916449.html