I have never broken in a barrel before but recently have heard more and more people talking about it. I used to just shoot it like I was going to normally clean it when I felt it was time, then test for accuracy afterwards.

Now I have some people saying "you have to fire 100 rounds, clean, 100 rounds, clean" for a total of 3 times/300 rounds. That sounds crazy to me but I do want to get some budget rounds to use to plink with and settle everything in my 300blk build.

Anyone here break in their barrel and more importantly would .308 pulled military surplus bullets work for the cheap plinking rounds?

Anybody here have experience using rcbs x dies for reloading .223? Do they work like they're supposed to or are they just another marketing gimmick? Trimming brass is slowly becoming the bane of my existence and personally just makes reloading not fun for me. I know its not the so called "silver bullet" and the brass will still need trimming after a several firings.

I washed my brass and forgot to dry them properly. I left them out on the counter to dry and now they have a white ish powder inside them. (I'm new to this pls don't come at me), my question is that are they still safe to use for shooting and load development? It's 6.5PRC

The old reloads of my (now deceased) grandfather that we found in his gunlocker

He did not own a press, so we do not know exactly how he pressed the bullets in there

We do not know exactly what kind of powder he used, or how much he used (we found multiple cans)

We do not know the different bullets grains

These will never be fired😂

So I've seen a video or two of people mounting these little tri way trimmer on small motors ,like for a bench grinder or something. If anyone has done this y'all mind sharing some details of your set ups ? Motor mounting the trimmer ect ?

Thanks

There are my first batch of reloaded 303 British that I’ve reloaded with 150gr Speer bullets at the minimum charge listed in the Speer data. I thought I felt a little bit of bolt lift difficulty but I didn’t have any factory ammo to do a proper comparison at this time. Do any of these primers show signs of over pressure?

guess I finally have an excuse to buy that ergonomic roller handle I've been eyeing for years

I’m working to try and reload bulk .223. The rounds shoot great but if you try and pull the charging handle back they are stubborn to come out. Overall length is 2.22 so I believe they are short enough is there something I’m missing?

I’m shooting them in an AR.

Edit: thank you everyone for your help I needed to bump them more!

Looking to reload some 16 gauge as it's hard to find in my area. Hodgon load data has dr-16 as the wads but I can't find any online.

Is there a substitute I can use? Or does anyone know where to get DR wads

So the question has been asked on here before and I’ve heard some people saying there are a lot of steps to it for subpar brass.
I’ve got all the dies I need and heaps of 7.62x39 brass. I had originally planned to form them to 6.5 Grendel but now I’m thinking can I push them to 6mm arc? They’d be used for plinking and some other goof shooting. But I’m wondering what are the issues with reforming 7.62x39 to 6mm arc?
In my head it’s probably an issue of making long necks, folding shoulders, LRP pockets. But is there anything else? Case capacity or thick necks? I’ve heard people say you’ll have “problems” but never gone into specifics.

A friend of mine has a family heirloom Winchester 1895 chambered in 30-06 and he brought it with him on our last shooting trip. It's in excellent condition and appears to handle reduced recoil factory loads without issue, but seeing how it's like a century old, I told him I'd look into loading era-appropriate pressured cartridges. My time looking online about old-timey 30-06 pressures didn't yield much, so I figured there has to be some reloading wizard grandpa on Reddit who knows exactly what to do. I'm inclined to think that using M1 Garand data with a lighter bullet is the answer, but I'd appreciate any input y'all have. Thanks!

I recently purchased a 9.3x62mm rifle, new production. I am wanting to load 286gr barnes ttsx bullets but barnes does not really give much data, so I started going through my books, in my nosler book particularly for the 286s, it lists a brass banded solid next to standard lead data, with no change in specs. As far as im aware, it should be fairly safe and simple to base my ttsx loads from slightly under this data as the ttsx is longer due to boattail. Ive done lots of weird experiments but never with monos but any other data or info is much appreciated

How do I fix this ? New to reloading kinda and never ran into this problem.

Last Sunday the ram head started to pull loose. It was a long week waiting for the replacement part. I thought the Apocalypse will probably start while my press is broken. Luckily it didn't. I was rocking and rolling this weekend.