straightshooter wrote:gordicans wrote:SCJ429 wrote:Why are you taking the loaded cases apart? Is it possible to fire off the ammo you have? It would be good practice and save stuffing around.
yes good question ... I considered that but driving 70k's to the range firing off 100 rounds for the sake of it not my idea of fun. I'd rather collect the loaded projectiles and powder, and now that I have good case cleaning/resizing/measuring gear start from scratch and use the powder and projectiles and put some quality loads together rather than the haphazard one's I've got now. I want to do some load development with cases that are properly prepared with projectiles seated at the proper depths rather than just guessing and see if I can start putting some good groups together. They were around an inch or slightly above before but I'd like to do a bit better than that.
If the ammo in question shoots acceptably and assuming you are not financially constrained then why not set it aside and save it for those uses where "bragging accuracy" isn't required. A lot of game has been shot with only average ammo.
In my opinion you would probably be better off starting with all fresh components in trying to make quality loads.
If you reuse components then you have a few more suspects, other than the usual ones, to blame if the new ammo does not meet your accuracy expectations.
Which fresh components? I've looked very closely at the projectiles after removing them (with one of those impact hammer thingos) and they look to be perfectly fine to use. I see no advantage in using new cases over the old cases which will be at least as good as new cases after some work on them. The powder of course will be OK to re-use. That only leaves the primers and I'll probably use new ones which are relatively inexpensive. So no, with respect I disagree