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  1. I always put down a lint free white cloth (cotton or use a few sheets of kitchen towel) which at least covers the area beneath the scale and at all points where I am transferring the powder to the case. Any spilt powder can go straight back into the next charge, or I can put it back in the tub at the end. Like the OP I also use a digital scale. I normally drop the powder from a lee perfect powder measure to within half a grain (if I'm lucky), or scoop it from a container of some sort, then make up the difference with tweezers (and yes it is to within two kernels but my OCD won't let me do it any other way, and I enjoy working that way). I also weigh all my bullets and sort my neck turned, neck sized clean and shiny cases, but only when doing load development. Once I have my load I just grab a bunch cases and bullets make the rounds up and get out and shoot, then blame any poor groupings on my detached retina, the blinding sunlight, unreadable wind, trigger slapping, the wife etc, etc.
  2. Having recently pillar bedded my Remmy 700 .223 in a laminate stock the AICS chassis I had it in for many years is no longer required and may be of use to someone. I bought this stock to add weight to a factory remmy 700 sporter, but a recent rebarrel added over 1kg to the weight of the barrelled action and it no longer needs the additional weight of the stock. From memory this is the AICS 1.5 stock, used on a short action Remmy 700 in .223. It comes with a genuine steel AI ten round magazine and a polymer MDTTAC ten round mag. Both work prefectly well, but I only ever used these with five rounds at a time as the original magazines wore around the guides and eventually wouldn't keep the rounds in place. The stock has been well used, and cosmetically shows the signs around the sling points and bi pod area, but I had confirmation from sporting services uk that all replacement parts are still available should the buyer feel the need to replace them. The price is £250 collected, or I can post it for the cost of shipping (quotation from the courriers is £10 based on it weighs close to 4kg including the magazines and packaging). #SOLD to Remmy308.#
  3. Price now dropped to £500. This scope has had very little use and is like new.
  4. The Remmy action will normally look like it's cratering the primers (mine does even on light loads). Also soft primers have a tendency to appear to flow (I found Winchester always flatten but not flow). Vhit site shows the upper end as being above 27 Grn, so you still have enough space to allow for temperature variation. Any signs heavy bolt lift?
  5. I found the same thing with the new barrel on my .223, and after seating them back 10 thou the FPS was up, but no pressure signs.
  6. I have around 300 many times fired PPU, and recently decided to neck turn them all (lockdown boredom). It made a significant difference to the group size, so probably worth saving a few of the factory cases you already have, even if it's only to try case prep ideas out. I used fired cases to learn how to develop loads and, as above, bought decent new cases for target work but still used/use the old stuff for field work. Nothing worse than spending a few hours on prep work on new cases only to watch them sail off into the long grass.
  7. DO63 is double based, so N120 will perform very differently. My Hornet never liked either of the Hornady VMax offerings, I never tried the hollow points. Try the 20grn varmagedon with either DO63 or N120. Varms are also cheaper than Hornady if you buy the 250 box. When the cartridge was first introduced Hornady published the recommended min/max for N120, which was; N120 20 Grn V Max 9.7/3200-10.8/3600 grns 25 Grn V Max 9.3/2900-10.0/3100 grns For a better quality bullet try the Berger offerings.
  8. How are you getting on with it? Works ok as free software, works better when you become a patron and unlock the additional features. I'm still playing with it but, as a long time QL user, it is taking time to find the features I used most on QL.
  9. What bullets are you using? My lee press is very old and worn, and the handle falls off, but the bullets (even PPU SP) all seat to the same depth when measured to the ogive using a comparator.
  10. After the second time I tried filling the charge master with the drain plug still open 😳, I always make it a point to spread a clean, lint free, white cloth out before working with powders. Even if I don't want to reuse the powder it collects, it saves it getting sucked into the vacume cleaner.
  11. cooter

    subsonic 308

    Neil, It was your first point that I recalled, but thanks for expanding it. 👍 Just to add to your post. Based on the above powder information it means that to use the same powder weight of N32C as could be used of Trail Boss the case will be only half full, and to get it down to sub sonic level (10 - 11 Grns) means it will be around the 50% fill level, which can mean an uneven burn, or using fillers.
  12. cooter

    subsonic 308

    Using Trail Boss and not N32C I worked a load up using the Hornady 220Grn RN bullets which was good enough for vermin shooting in the woods. I recall reading that the powder volume density for N32C was slightly lower than Trail Boss, but there wasn't much in it. The thread is here...
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