Hey, I like the eldx, but not for the long disrance shooting I do. As far as I'm aware it's mire of a long range hunting round. I can't remember off hand what my COAL length is, as I measure off the ogive rather than the overall length. I could definitely seat out a bit further though if I was willing to single load them, but I prefer to magazine feed them, and there's only about 3.5 thou between the two lengths. Thanks for the comment, its much appreciated 😁
My charging routine is to use a Redding Competition 10X powder measurer to drop a slightly light charge and then trickle to weight with a Lyman brass Smith trickler on an Ohaus 5-0-5 beam scale, then I double check the charges on a Hornady G3-1500 digital scale to make sure the charges are accurate. If there is any variations between scales I re tear the digital scale and visually check the poses on the beam scale. Usually it will be the digital scale has drifted, but once I had accidently bumped a pose on the beam scale. Once I load up 50 cases I shine a light into he cases for a visual check of the powder levels. So I am making sure that all my loads weigh exactly the same between two different scales and then apply a third safety check by eye to make absolutely sure that every case has powder in them and that there are no double charger. Better to be safe than sorry. Speed loading is like speeding down the highway. Somebody sooner or later is going to get hurt or even die. Or at the very least look like an idiot on the shooting range, when their gun blows up, for having made a bad round. One thing to watch out for is static electricity building up in the plastic hoppers of the powder measurers of which will cause the powder to bridge in the drop down tube causing a light charge in one case and then a near double charge in the next case. DRAMWORXS makes Pyrex hoppers for all major reloading company's powder measures that stop the static from being able to build up in the first place. So if one wants to drop powder charges directly into cases from the powder measurer they really should get a DRAMWOXS hopper for safety reason mentioned above. And then do a visual check of each case to boot. Because if others get killed because someone neglected to assure that they are indeed making safe rounds then it will not be considered an accident but rather negatable homicide! And no one wants to be that guy!
Thank's for this one, very interesting.
Hi I'm new to 6.5 and did a ladder test 101 bullets made and my best was 143 grain eldx 42.4 and sized coal was 2.670.
Hey,
I like the eldx, but not for the long disrance shooting I do. As far as I'm aware it's mire of a long range hunting round.
I can't remember off hand what my COAL length is, as I measure off the ogive rather than the overall length. I could definitely seat out a bit further though if I was willing to single load them, but I prefer to magazine feed them, and there's only about 3.5 thou between the two lengths.
Thanks for the comment, its much appreciated 😁
My charging routine is to use a Redding Competition 10X powder measurer to drop a slightly light charge and then trickle to weight with a Lyman brass Smith trickler on an Ohaus 5-0-5 beam scale, then I double check the charges on a Hornady G3-1500 digital scale to make sure the charges are accurate. If there is any variations between scales I re tear the digital scale and visually check the poses on the beam scale. Usually it will be the digital scale has drifted, but once I had accidently bumped a pose on the beam scale. Once I load up 50 cases I shine a light into he cases for a visual check of the powder levels. So I am making sure that all my loads weigh exactly the same between two different scales and then apply a third safety check by eye to make absolutely sure that every case has powder in them and that there are no double charger. Better to be safe than sorry.
Speed loading is like speeding down the highway. Somebody sooner or later is going to get hurt or even die. Or at the very least look like an idiot on the shooting range, when their gun blows up, for having made a bad round.
One thing to watch out for is static electricity building up in the plastic hoppers of the powder measurers of which will cause the powder to bridge in the drop down tube causing a light charge in one case and then a near double charge in the next case. DRAMWORXS makes Pyrex hoppers for all major reloading company's powder measures that stop the static from being able to build up in the first place. So if one wants to drop powder charges directly into cases from the powder measurer they really should get a DRAMWOXS hopper for safety reason mentioned above. And then do a visual check of each case to boot. Because if others get killed because someone neglected to assure that they are indeed making safe rounds then it will not be considered an accident but rather negatable homicide! And no one wants to be that guy!