Albroswift

Picked up the Frankford pin tumbler on sale last week, first run 250 large rifle mix 308, 30-06, 338WM about maxed it out. Brass had been previously tumbled, Lubed, sized, deprimed. Ran 1-1/2 hr, not bad. Ran 250 rounds 223 (Resized to 25-45) for 2-1/2 hrs, reused the same solution, great results. Going to rig up a big screen on a box fan for drying, first couple batches laid out on a towel and ran the box fan over them. Actually had one of those Frankford separators shown above laying around, still a bit messy but like the results, especially the primer pockets. Haven't tried the method mentioned above replacing the solution 1/2 way through.

+1 on the Barnes. Have you recovered any? I just started using Barnes Bullets last year, haven't shot an Elk with one yet. Like to see what they look like. The SST's I've recovered in the past lost a lot of lead at closer ranges. BAR 338 shoots like a kitten with the help of a nice sissy pad, custom brake, and spits out a 185 gr Barnes @ 3000+fps.

Mike must be a quarter bore fan...

I've ran into a lot of used 308 COMMERCIAL brass that wouldn't hold primers. Also seems like Federal primers hold better in marginal brass then Win or CCI. Last year bought a bunch of new Starline through Diamond K and just bagging up all the old stuff. I haven't gotten to any 3x fired yet but the 2x fired were all within a couple thou of my original trim length on the 3rd loading, held primers fine, and neck tension good.

Maybe the elk around are a little tougher. Or further away. Nothing wrong with any of the guns mentioned above, everyone has their favorites, but at 400 to 800 yard elk I'll take the magnum everytime.

@Cliff R Maybe due to being soft, thick, and fired in oversized chambers, but life's to short to mess with reloading 50 YO machine gun brass! I really like the Starline brass when I order new stuff.

Put me in the belted magnum camp for elk, those critters are tough SOB's! We have killed them with everything from 308 and up, and bigger is definitely better. A well made comp and a Pachmayr Decelerator pad and the recoil is manageable.

Like to get a remote like a laser, button near your index.

Sweet

Basically I vibratory tumble twice, first overnight Grit-o-Cob and Losso, then lube with Imperial, size and deprime, clean the pockets, then couple more hrs in the tumbler to remove the lube. Thinking of getting one of the pin/liquid type drum tumblers, really like the finish results but messy. Still probably use the vibratory for the first step.

No problem, plenty of other projects. I did pay it ahead, sent a box of 38 to Festus.

Thanks for the info. I like the Hornady expander in their sizer, has a nice radius. See if they have a 25 45.

I did my part!

I'm looking at the little cube shaped one, the "Session" Hero 4 and 5 Sessions are going for good prices. Do they have a remote switch?

Ordered a sharps barrel, lite profile SS 16" Do you use a special die to resize the 223 brass? Reason I ask is Sharps has a RCBS set that includes a die for sizing 223 into 25 45. "This .25-45 Sharps RCBS reloading dies includes a three die box, a full-length resizing die, a seater die, and a die to resize .223 brass into .25-45 Sharps". Otherwise I'd probably go , RCBS or Hornady FL sizing, Lee factory crimp, any of the 3 for seating,

Did manage to get the camera phone out in time for a couple of shots

Anyone mount a gopro on a hi power rifle? Handle the recoil? While hunting last week I kept running into game that wasn't bullet worthy but a photo would have been cool.

I used the lee setup with drill motor adapter, with the cutter that chamfers and deburrs, in my progressive press, fast but when measured the cases were +/- quite a bit, don't remember exactly how much now but I wasn't impressed. This was for .44 before I adapted the Dillon RT 1200 to do the pistol length brass. For rifle the Dillon seems to give the most uniform results of anything I've used, but need to chamfer/ deburr afterwards.

Just showed up last night, new rangefinding binoculars from Sig. I have been using (playing around with) the Kilo 2400 BDX rangefinder paired to a Sierra 3000 BDX 6.5-20x52 on my BAR 338 WM, works good to 800 yards, well over our typical 200-600 yard shots in this country (adding a Kestrel extends the range to infinity and beyond if I were to get serious). My old pair of Steiner binos are a gooey mess so needed something new and liked the idea of not messing with separate rangefinder and binos, so went with the Sig. Reason for post: Although Sig customer service is top notch, English first language phone reps that know their products, there are no forums currently discussing these units. Any one here have any experience?

That is strange.

@shooterrex Did you dimple drill your barrel so for sure they are both hitting the port exactly the same? Not surprised differences in blocks length, but would expect to see the set screw/ port/ crosspin geometry pretty close.

Good stuff, Thanks! Al

Something I hadn't considered, but perfect. I assume you have one, what velocities are you getting? Barrel length? Gas system length?

Want to build something for Western Washington Blacktail on an AR15 receiver set. Regulations here min .24 caliber. Too many options, maybe 6.5 Grendel, 6.8 SPC, 6mm/.243? Don't want to go 7.62 Give me some ideas my friends!

It looks like the ejector roll pin in the 308 bcg is longer then the one in the ar15, but I don't have one that isn't already installed to compare, only a couple spares for the ar15.