Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Got primers?

I scored a few today, enough CCI 200 to reload my Boomershoot hulls, and almost 800 Small Pistol, too.

Might look to trade some of those Small Pistol for some Large Rifle. I've been hearing some P&M from the competitive shooters in the Valley that they don't know where they are going to get primers to reload for their brand O'fun. Here's your chance, pistoleers. Round up some Large Rifle and leave a comment below...

Reloading question

Does anyone know of a computer program that works a spreadsheet for reloads?

What I need is to be able to give the program the bullet, the barrel length and twist, the powder and weight of charge, and have it spit out expected speed in FPS.

Exterior ballistics info would be a plus, also.

Reloading notes to self

Note: It bites running out of powder on a 50-round reloading run, getting only to the 46-round mark (and one was a barrel-heater load 20% short. Marked it well with Sharpie).

Note: if you change from seating in hard brass (Lake City and OFV) to soft Federal, you might cam over when seating, and that round has to go into the boolet puller...do it twice, though, and there's no excuse.

Note: been pumping the one-armed shoulder-wrecker for a month now, and I STILL don't have my rotator cuff back in shape for it right-handed.

Note: how do you lube the throat resizer ball? It bites taking the die completely apart every 20 rounds to do that. Lubing the inside of the case throats is supposed to be enough, but isn't. Maybe polish the ball with jeweler's rouge on one of those Dremel felt pads?

Note: now that I'm out of IMR 4831, should I get more or try some other wide-spectrum rifle powder like IMR 4895? The modern books don't have a lot of loads for 4831.

Note: I just bought a powder trickler, but find I'm much faster with the tapped-spoon system. Is there a trick to using the powder trickler to make using it a faster experience? Maybe it just doesn't do well with cylinder-form powders.

Note: buy a whiteboard for the wall behind the bench, to write loads on. They can be transferred to computer later.

Note: put reloading websites in my PDA favorites, so I can pull them right up without so much Google fumbleaya. Maybe start a loads folder for the PDA. Does anyone have an Excel Template for load data?

Bah, oh-two-hundred, need to hit the rack.