Scorpio64

I resized the neck on one case to where I could slip a bullet in and it would be snug. A lame attempt at measuring chamber, but that's another story. When I insert a 77gr TMK, it is outside OAL spec. I didn't measure where, but I'd have to crimp on the ogive to get it to seat within mag length spec. If that's what you were doing, it may explain poor groups. The TMK is practically an ELD bullet.

FL for semi auto all the time and bolt action for first time resizing unknown brass. Then neck only for bolt action after brass has been fire formed. That's how I understand it. I'm basically working up a load for my SPR first, using PPU 75 gr .223 OTM as the baseline, as that's what I soot almost exclusively and I get about .33moa from it. After I get that established, I'm going to mess with 60gr Vmax and 69gr Hornady otm for M4gery, and 69gr TMK, 77gr TMK for SPR.

I have three powders to work with, Varget, CFE 223 and reloader 15. I got some figuring to do. That's another thing too. I'm using a 223 wylde barrel. I'll be using 223 brass and load data to start, then maybe tweak it once i'm more competent.

I was invited to MCRPC today but working on reloading. It's like having to do extra homework while everyone else is out playing ball.

I think I may run into that with the 77gr TMK using Varget. The TMK has a really long ogive, almost seems like I have to get a bit of that into the case neck for proper OAL. May not be the right bullet for the AR. Internal ballistics vs external?

just getting into metallic reloading so I have no idea how important bullet specific load data is. There will be a lot of noob questions forthcoming. I did order a chrono, apparently it's very important for working up loads.

Are those data generic to any jacketed, whether tipped, sp or otm, or specific to TMK?

Looking for .223 SMK 69gr and SMK 77gr using Varget and CFE 223 load data. Hodgdon only has data for Sierra OTM, and Sierra is being super stingy with sharing data.

If it doesn't snow again for two years, I will buy you a case of beer. Starting............. NOW!

Although I'm not exactly ancient, there was a period of my life I can call the good old days when it comes to guns. My first gun was a gift from my dad, an old as hell Savage 311A SxS that kicks like a mule. Shooting high brass hunting loads was painful. I took my hunters ed course, passed and dad handed me a shotgun. No FPID, no background check, no finger prints. Technically, I was a Fudd. I had no interest in guns beyond ducks, geese and clays. I only ever took the gun hunting on a river across the street from my house, and occasionally skeet shooting to warm up for hunting season. Without even realizing it, I was operating within the confines of NJ's only slightly retarded laws back then. When I'd go on a hunt, I'd gear up in camo, put on my ammo belt, grab my gun and walk across the street. It was just normal. Fast forward a few years, I decided to by a pump action. No real hassle, had to get a FPID, filled out paperwork, and in spite of my PD only having 9 cops, two detectives and a chief, I had my FPID in ten days. Went and bought an 870 Express, and then back to business as usual. I only became surprised after the first AWB, then NJ's insistence on holding on to it after the sunset, how I learned what a RINO was when Whitman was elected, and how far NJ has fallen in the US ranking for freedom. I have been surprised so many times that I'm no longer surprised at anything NJ does. Surprise has evolved into disgust.

I'm too lazy to do that! Just grab painters tape, scissors, a solvent that won't leave an oily residue, like pure isoproponol, and a razor blade. Open the receiver, clean the mating surface of the lower, slap two layers of tape, trim, close receiver, DONE. You don't have to put tape down the entire length of the lower, just the wide part near the buffer tube. It'll be locked up tighter than your fist around a piece of bacon.

Augered in

Nope, the perp died in hospital of Covid-19.

This is a BO move, using Buyme as his proxy, to put small 2A companies out of business. They are combing through everything at ATF, they are on a mission. Think about THIS for a minute. AR-15 receivers have a substantial auto seer block so they are legal. However, there are drop in F/A FCGs for the AR-15. So, guess what (chicken butt) The AR is next on the chopping block. That' how they will make it NFA.

Anything not snow covered has a sheet of ice over it now.

It just changed to bigger flakes and clusters here. Falling faster so probably wet. EDIT: Now it's sleet/freezing rain.

Looks like we got around 6" here so far. Light and fluffy.

Pirate radio!!!

Dirt aids digestion.... well, as long as there isn't any Anthrax in it.

Blisters are manly.

I'll TAKE IT!

Decent candidates appear all the time, but they show up at the local level and get primaried away by the machine. It's our own fault we don't have better candidates.

Perception. Revolver = Fudd because it's not a plastic semi-auto. .357 is bad ass, no doubt, but so is a chest full of Elmer's 00 from a SxS.

First they banned military style rifles, the AR-15 by name. No NATO or military chambers, no Flash hider, No bayo lug, no collapsible stock. We worked around it by building rifles with only one "evil feature", the pistol grip. I remember when the Colt Match was chambered in .223 only. The one evil feature rifle was born. Then they started squeezing magazine capacity Then they messed with pistol grips Now that they have sufficiently disempowered 2A, and have control of all three branches, the only roadblock are the Trump circuit court judges and SCOTUS. They are working on that, I'm sure of it. It may take a while, but they will put something together and force it through. It will be called gun safety or some BS name. It will get done before the midterm elections. Once they enact AWB 2.0, (through executive fiat) they will acknowledge that the AR-15 is no different than any other semi-auto, an argument we have been using for decades. They will turn it around on us and finally admit they are not banning cosmetic features, but mechanical function. Grandpa's 742 and dad's Marlin Camp 9 will be on the chopping block too. In order to not create too large a ruckus, they won't ban semi-auto pistols. Pistols are not their main concern anyway because in their eyes it's what the scum under them use to murder each other. The elite have little to be concerned about when it comes to handguns. They do take every opportunity to exploit mass shootings where an AR-15 was used. but again, to them, it's just peons killing other peons. Just an isolated shocking incident to use as a foothold towards their ultimate goal of protecting themselves. What they are most afraid of is a rifle that can be used in an offensive manner. Pistols can be easily defeated with body armor and bullet proof glass. Rifles can penetrate all but the most robust armor. Hypothetically, if our government was to ever become so corrupt as to spark a revolution or a civil war, there can only be resistance if the people own high power rifles. Once they take away semi-auto rifles, we will be no better off than Venezuela after Chavez took over. Only the right kind of people will be allowed to own or possess rifles. As it so happens, the dems are handily on their way to drawing the lines between their vision of the right kind of people and the undesirables. 2A is just another objective in the cancel culture. Woke socialist vs white supremacist capitalist patriotic pig, even if you are not white, then you are (their words, not mine) an uncle tom house nizzy. It's coming people, I don't know when or how, but it is coming. The super sad thing about all of it, is it will have little or nothing to do with social justice or equality. We are being manipulated by the elite class who look upon us as nothing more than well paid slaves.

I lost all my TP in a boating accident.