Load Development AT the Range

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Load Development AT the Range

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The February edition of the Shooting Sports USA on-line magazine has a great article on the equipment needed for reloading at the range. I find this to be really beneficial for load development. I usually have all my brass sized and primed with case mouths belled before I go. Simple to adjust measure and seat a bullet. Immediate feedback. Now all I need is a Chrony™! And I'd know what I was doing! :P

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Nice article, really like the powder measure, I'm going to look into those. Some of that range reloading could be applied to folks reloading in small apts or homes or even while traveling. Good stuff.
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Nice article. Actually several nice ones in that link; I liked the Eley range where you can test your specific firearm (or I guess maybe just the barrel...?) with different lots of their ammo and see which one mates best with it.
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A hand press, electronic scale and a couple dippers are much more compact.
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And if you don't have and don't want to invest in newer stuff, you can use an old-fashioned powder scale if you do it inside your vehicle (just the least little breeze will drive you nuts trying to use the old scale outdoors).
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When I shot my Winchester Schuetzen .32-40, I often loaded at the range. Fired one hull, then de-capped, primed, etc. Then fired again. Sometimes, I would load 5 rounds.

Slow and relaxing manner to shoot as long as the range was not crowded or busy. Otherwise way too many questions about the "funny looking" rifle and the obsolete claiber as well as "what are you doing?".

Utilized the old Pope-style re- and de-capper clone and breech seated. Had a portable Lee Precision (?? or was it a Lyman ??) hand held press mounted to a board when not breech seating. Don’t know if it is available anymore.

Powder measure was the ubiquitous Lyman #55 and checked on a RCBS 10-10 scale.

Scale and powder tickler sat in a shop-fabricated a box for transport. The box lid slid off and a Plexiglas lid slid on to see the pointer and protect the scale from wind.

Not really a new or novel way to load and shoot as the practice was common during the hay-day of Schuetzen shooting….

Harrel's Culver-style powder measures are the cat's meow and very accurate. But then again, you get what you pay for....

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