Reloading 30-06 Start To Finish

so for our load testing with a llamar 30 31 and a 30 watt sticks we're going to start with once fired this is remington core lock brass I had quite a bit that I've saved over the years always shot core locks we'll be shooting this brass in the same gun that it was first fired in I've already tumbled them resized them now I'm just checking the link so that we have a consistent length and all of these are relatively close they were all the same brand they were all fired out of the same gun they're all running up around 2.4 902 2.4 92 which is under max lengthen just a little bit over trembling for 30.6 they have a max case length of two point four nine four and a trim length of two point four eight four and so all of these are within that range and they're all relatively close so I'm not going to trim them I'll probably just just run them through the Lyman case Express case prep Express get them cleaned up and ready to prime and load [Music] nice and clean well call me old-fashioned but now that we've got our brass all ready to prime and load it's time to pick a load and I still like getting out the load manual this one here is exclusively for 223 but you'll find just about every bullet manufacturer out there with different powders different bullets all in one load manual I know you can get this on the internet but a lot of what's on the internet ain't in these older books this is a nozzle or 5th edition I looked at I looked in it 4:30 out 6 load data 450 green bullets and I didn't find anything that mentioned I am are 30 31 and most of my newer loading manuals I didn't but I found this old Lyman reloading handbook this is the 46th edition here and this was originally printed in 1982 look at this $9.95 friend of mine gave me this and he gave me a bunch of older reloading manuals and they're great just for comparing loads to what you're seeing on the internet one of the downsides to using just exclusively loading manuals is that the newer calibers and newer powders are not listed in them so like I have a 300 blackout there's no load data and in any of these older books for 300 blackout 300 a CC so anyways in this particular load manual here under the hundred 50 grain jacketed soft points I did find that IMR 3031 is a powder that has some load data for it and this is where I found my initial load that I I just shot a few times back in the end of winter just to see what it would do and so I had a hard time finding load data on the internet for IMR 3031 it's an older powder been around a lot but here in this particular manual in the lime and reloading handbook I found the data I was looking for so we're gonna write this on paper we're gonna develop maybe three four different loads in between 42 and 52 grains and we'll see what we come up with okay you call me old school call me in the and earth all tell me I could do this online tell me there's an app for that I don't care the same principle applies if you're going to shoot some test rounds you need to write down how they performed with each powder if you thought in which bullet so what we're going to do here is just basic stuff I'm shooting these out of my Remington 736 the average case length is two point four nine zero this is once fired Remington brass then I have the powder IMR 30 31 in the bullet it's 150 Green Sierra soft point boattail and then there's the number 21 25 when I finish loading I'll have the overall length to put right here we're gonna start low and work up that way if we see signs of pressure we can stop and not shoot the height the hotter loads so this gave us a starting load of 42 grains which I know I don't want to shoot that low of a velocity so we're gonna start at 47 5 and we'll load three rounds at 47 five three rounds at 48 we're just going to come up by half round increments and the maximum pressure is supposed to be at fifty point Oh grains so I'm gonna stop just shy of max I love this gun I've had it it was a graduation present from my parents I don't want to shoot the barrel out I don't want to do any damage I don't want brass in my face so these are gonna be our five loads so we'll need 15 rounds to complete this so this is how I do it I know there's an app I know you can key all this in to your phone and and that's cool but either way you got to do the same thing and you can keep up with what primers you shoot and the relative humidity but this ought to give us all we need to know okay we have our load picked out we have our bright brass ready to prime you don't want a problem bro and leave it primed and unloaded so we know we have five loads and we're going to load three of each different powder charge so that means I'm only going to need 15 rounds to complete what I have on paper so just a little common sense here save you a lot of headache I only have 15 brass out because that's what it's going to take I don't have extra brass and my load blocks here that I'm I may or may not have put powder in so I took all the extra brass and put them over here out of sight behind Mount Rushmore and little across koozie and so all I'm gonna be working with is these 15 because that's all I need to load on top of that since I know I'm only loading 15 I put exactly 15 primers in my primer tray so I should have no primers left when all the brass is primed these are just ways to keep you from making mistakes like putting powder in brass that doesn't have a primer in the bottom so when you pick it up to put your bullet in it all your powder runs out the primer pocket these are just simple steps if you'll do them and get used to doing them and counting out your primers counting out your brass ensuring that you have the bullets to load because there's nothing worse than weighing out all the powder and you get ready and you only have ten of those bullets in the in the container so we know we've got bullets we know we've got powder we know what we're going to load now is when you want to prime them because you want to load them shortly after you prime them that ensures that you don't have no moisture can get in contact with your primers there again common sense don't look down it when you're priming it and when you do prime it I tend to run my finger over the top of the brass just to ensure that the primer is seated what I would call just under flush by the way we're using large rifle primers number 200 by CCI and I'm sure the other primers are just as good that's just what was on sale when I bought large rifle primers and I heard good reviews on it I haven't had any trouble so you could take all this brass away and store it but what I'm going to do is set all the brass that I'm not reloading at the time at the back of the load blocks and I'm going to put the three blasts that will be loaded for this powder charge at the front so that all I do is shift my my funnel from brass - brass three times also the only powder I have on my bench is what I'm reloading that way I don't add more to the the cup that I'm going to dip out of I use these a little li cups this is 2.2 CCS it's just what I'm used to I don't think they're better than any other way it's just my particular method that's how I learned I weigh each individual load exactly as we have planned and then I took my very first load which is forty seven point five grains I wrote that on a sheet of paper and I put it here on this little scratch pad if I'm looking at this sheet of paper I could glance up and look at forty eight five and then we would be one grain off and that would affect our group so I take that pad and I put it upside down on the cap on the bench so I don't see it and then I just load and any time I'm wondering right there in front of me is forty seventy five so I'm gonna dump powder in there that's twenty seven four then wheeled up thirty nine nine that's 47 5 right there which is what we're looking for and then I know I'm going right to the one next to it I'm doing this three times give it a chance to make sure it's gonna settle on 47 five and it is one more time I don't get in any hurry especially when I'm trying to develop a load because I want to be as precise as I possibly can that way I know if it's if it's just bad reading I mean I don't want it to be bad reloading or lackadaisical powder measurement that caused my spread or my velocity changes I'm going to be as close as I possibly can to what I've chosen to load I don't think like talking about it while I do it but we're going to do it on this first load because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to shoot 47.5 but at least I'll have some data for the lower end of the powder spectrum lower end of the powder spectrum you won't find that on any other loading channel at least I'll have some kind of guidelines for what the lower end of these pressure this lobe will will do okay here's the dies we'll be using now we have the three brass that we put powder in we're going to set them on our load blocks and all the empty brass are away from us so if we were to load something that didn't have powder in it we'd have to reach over the top of these three brass that we do have loaded and to ensure that we don't accidentally do something wrong we only have the exact amount of bullets on the table to match the brass that we have so we're going to load three with 47.5 grains of IMR 3031 so we have three bullets out I know you say well any idiot could do that no you'd be surprised your wife starts telling you dinner's ready and you're in a hurry and and you forget something to do something wrong these are just fail-safes to keep you from making mistakes on the range and if you if you ensure that you're working good on the range it'll keep you from from making mistakes when you've got a big deer or something in front of you now we need to set up our die and once we get our die set to the exact depth then it's going to be just a matter of putting the exact powder charge in the brass and we won't have to mess with the died since the bullets are the same in each load so with the shell holder in the die I mean with a shell holder in the press I'm gonna run it all the way to the top and we're gonna take our our die down till we feel it hit the hit the top of the shell holder we're gonna back it up one full turn and then tighten down the lock nut okay the dye is in place I'm going to make sure we have the bullet seating pin all the way are not all the way up but well out of the way we take one bullet one brass didn't hit anything okay so basically all we've done is slide the bullet into the casing now we need to start monitoring the depth so we get our overall length that we want so now we get the micrometer out and we'll start measuring that I'll come back when I get it right it's just a matter of going up into the dye and then checking it tightening it you don't need to watch all that we'll come back when we get it right we have got the bullet seated in the brass at three point three one six it says that the maximum caso or maximum overall length is three point three four and we're a little under that I checked my core locks that I were shooting and they were like three point one so you're shooting a lead tip bullet so it's gonna vary a little bit but the main thing is before you load all of these is to make sure that they will chamber in the rifle not just fit in the in the barrel we're not gonna shoot it one at a time so what we want to do is push it down in there I mean as you can see this is a Remington 700 ATL doesn't have a belly pan so it's loaded from the top and we want to make sure that it goes in and bolts without any difficulty and so that's exactly what we have we want to make sure we haven't deformed the soft lead tip in doing that we want to make sure there's no scratches on the brass where we've rammed it into the lens and we don't see any of that so we're gonna go with an overall length of three point one three I believe three point three one I'm sorry three point three one and we'll check this and make sure that's our average now that we've got the depth where we want it let's back this off let's loosen this up okay now let's run this down we start feeling a little pressure what we're going to get here is a little bit of crimp on the brass we don't need a lot just a little bit I'm starting to feel the brass because my cedar plug is all the way up so I'm starting to feel the brass on my tie I just want to go a little bit past that very very lightly crimped it's not an automatic it's not ramming it up in there so we just want enough to keep the bullet in place it feels pretty good there so we're going to tighten up the lock ring so that it doesn't move that's tightened up and slide the seat or plug down just till we start to feel the the bullet that's it tighten the cedar plug let's run another one and see how we do there's our first one let's see if this one comes out right very lightly cramped three point three two seven three point three one nine so we're within six one thousand let's try a third one 3.25 so with a lead tip bullet that's pretty close each one of them varies just a little there's our first three loads okay you're going to need a good shell holder one that's slotted where you can put everything in it some people ride on them with a marker but I find this works fine every time I open the shell box with a latch it with the lid away from me this is always slot number one so it's just like you read left or right so as I made out my load chart earlier that we looked at number one it's forty seven point five and that's just what we loaded so that goes into slot number one and I love it from back to front and then as I load my next load which will be 48 grains of powder I'll change my little scratch pad and I'll make that 48 and I load it and since it's number two it'll go in spot number two and we could actually load over ten different loads in this box and the very last one would be load ten so typically what I'll do since I'm loading all 3031 powder here for these five loads these five loads will all be in order just as I wrote them out now I may skip a couple of spots since I have some extra brass and load up some other powder just as a as a comparison to see how it does velocity wise and accuracy wise but when I go to the range this piece of paper will be folded up in this box and I can unfold it and I'll know what everything load it is and then when I shoot it I'll write down my groups or I might make a star by it whichever one was better and I'll write down my velocities on the same sheet of paper fold it back up with the empty brass in order that way when I get back all this brass will be empty and I can check by looking at the primer pockets and the primer and I can check pressures and kind of see if I get some indicators maybe that's that my pressure is getting too high and so anyways that's the way I'll do it I'll put this in there and we'll go to the range after I get these loaded now it's five thirty right now and last time I looked at my phone it was still 98 degrees you figure in humidity you're talking about 110 degrees so I may not run out and shoot these anytime soon it may be maybe two weeks before I go shoot these maybe maybe three weeks let's have to defend when I can get off on a on a nice cloudy day or maybe get up early early one morning and then go to the range and shoot these but that's basically the process for loading five different rounds with the same bullet same powder just varying the amount of powder till we find one that this particular bullet in this particular load works with thanks for watching

Channel: Preacher's Day Off

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Keywords: Reloading 30-06, 30-06 Springfield, start to finish, IMR 3031, Serria Game Kings, Load Development, RCBS, 30-06 Load Data, Best 30-06 Load, Remington 30-06

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Length: 20min 39sec (1239 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 23 2016