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JYou disagree with "what I would do with .358 I would look hard at 225 gr bullets or less"..........HEH HEH....... OK.........I did not...
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JThat’s awesome I appreciate that as a reference. so I guess my next question is what is accepted as the operating “pressure” for 35...
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JThis may or may not help you a lot, but it might give you some direction and ideas. My good friend @jwp475 is also a 35 Whelen fan...
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JWith CFE 223 I worked up to 64.3gr for 2584fps. I tried 64.8gr got 2598fps but was getting slightly flattened primers. With Alliant...
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JIt’s actually Bobs posts I found that put me on track with CFE223. In which I was happy to break 2400 FPS until I was then breaking 2500...
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JAwaiting Bob answer, it should be good.
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JI’ve done some serious digging on the search menu here and many other forums, it’s hard to find more than 1 or 2 cases to concretely...
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JLoaded up some 225 TSXs with CFE223 powder in the .35 Whelen. After 30 years of using 250 grain partitions and RL15 I think I am going...
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JAnnealed some .416 Rigby brass today. As much as I like even bigger calibers, the .416 Rigby is my favorite for DG. If I could only...
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JI finished up a load for my 9.3x62 yesterday. Both targets have the same load, loaded at the same time. The only difference is the crimp...
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JI have come a full circle from where I started. For my DRs I started with no crimping. Then I went to using my seating due for crimp...
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Jjwp475 reacted to Troubleshooter's post in the thread Cannelure not right for a cartridge with
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Lee's website shows the Large Series Factory Crimp Die available at $125. "Cost prohibitive" is a subjective term, but I doubt that... -
JLee has made a custom Factory Crimp Die .500 Jeffery for me, using a 1" thread die body. I sent them 3 dummy loads with 570 grain...
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JI had Lee make a Factory Crimp Die made for my 500 Sharps 2 1/2' (50-90 Sharps), At first they said they couldn't do it (don't know why)...
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JThey are both single shots but the seating die doesn't take out the case mouth flare if you cannot roll crimp into the cannelure. As...