It was pretty annoying. So while I will painstakingly measure out each round of 300 win mag, I stopped that nonsense pretty quickly with the .223. I grabbed the cup that came with the new die set and did 5 to 10 dips and weighs to see how close I was getting.
I have some IMR3031 and hogdon shows 20-21.4ish with a 55gr bullet. Now, I'm thinking to myself, wow, that's a narrow azzle margin considering even my 9mm is a 3-4gr spread, load wize. But I did end up getting scoops all in that range. Maybe it's the shape and size of the pellets that made it easy. I randomly selected and weighed a few filled cases to be sure, when all were filled.
So then comes the bullet seating. Total pain in the manizzle and I don't like it. With my 9mm I can plop a bullet in each on the tray, and then just pop em in the the thing with the arm thing and pull down on it and I'm good to go. The 300 win has a big enough bullet that I it's easy to deal with, especially if you're loading up some factory second 240 grainer freight trains.
Then I decided to crimp. Should I crimp? If you read this far, do you crimp the little bastages?
I have some IMR3031 and hogdon shows 20-21.4ish with a 55gr bullet. Now, I'm thinking to myself, wow, that's a narrow azzle margin considering even my 9mm is a 3-4gr spread, load wize. But I did end up getting scoops all in that range. Maybe it's the shape and size of the pellets that made it easy. I randomly selected and weighed a few filled cases to be sure, when all were filled.
So then comes the bullet seating. Total pain in the manizzle and I don't like it. With my 9mm I can plop a bullet in each on the tray, and then just pop em in the the thing with the arm thing and pull down on it and I'm good to go. The 300 win has a big enough bullet that I it's easy to deal with, especially if you're loading up some factory second 240 grainer freight trains.
Then I decided to crimp. Should I crimp? If you read this far, do you crimp the little bastages?