I have officially drank the cool-aid. I bought a mec 650 off Ebay tonight. It should be here in a few days.
On Tuesday I picked up 2 sets of 3 drawer cabinets and a 6' Formica counter top that was being thrown away on a job we are working on. This will make a perfect reloading bench as it is very heavy and sturdy when assembled.
I have been saving hulls and have two 5 gallon buckets full of AA's and STS's.
Now I need is a set of scales and a few components and I am road ready. I can hardly wait to shoot one I stuffed!
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Good luck 8, reloading is fun. I have a MEC 650 in 12ga along with some single stage MEC's in 10, 12 and 20 ga. The 650 does NOT resize the brass or steel hull. You may find with a 650 that you need a stand alone MEC super-sizer. It will be fine as long as you use hull shot in the same gun you are loading for or fired in a gun with a smaller chamber. However without resizing the hulls you will run into reloads that won't chamber or stick in the action on ejection.
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Friday 15th of April 2011 08:50:19 AM
When I was reloading for the 20 gauge I shot two 20 gauge model 12's and two 20 gauge 870's. Since the chambers were larger in the model 12's I had both chambers in the two 870's honed out to the same dia as the model 12's, never had to resize hulls after that, just load em and shoot em. It saved me a lot of time. All I shot for 16 years in a row was the 7/8th ounce load (20 gauge) in 8's mainly with DuPont 7625 powder, lage wads and Winchester 209 size primers. I liked the 7625 powder very much as it kept the chamber pressure down.
Bob A.
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SR7625 is the powder I use the most in hunting loads for the 2 7/8" 10 gauge. Like you said it keeps pressures down which is important when shooting Twist and Damascus barrels. It gives much more reliable ignition in the 10 bore than SR4756.
SR7625 is the powder I use the most in hunting loads for the 2 7/8" 10 gauge. Like you said it keeps pressures down which is important when shooting Twist and Damascus barrels. It gives much more reliable ignition in the 10 bore than SR4756.
NH, do you use smokeless powder when loading for twist/damascus guns?
Ted
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SR7625 is the powder I use the most in hunting loads for the 2 7/8" 10 gauge. Like you said it keeps pressures down which is important when shooting Twist and Damascus barrels. It gives much more reliable ignition in the 10 bore than SR4756.
NH, do you use smokeless powder when loading for twist/damascus guns?
Ted
Yes Ted nothing but nitro powders in Twist and Damascus. BP is pain the butt but I love the boom and smoke show. In nutshell make sure you have nothing less than .090 barrel thickness at chamber and nothing thinner than .025 towards the end. Find loads that stay 7500 psi and lower and you are pretty much good to go.
Many folks in the Parker Collectors group and other collectors society as well Vintagers shoot nitro in damascus barrels. The Brits never stopped.
Again shoot loads that are appropriate for the period of the gun.
Here is a Remington advertisment from their 1904-1905 catalog. Note "Guaranteed for Nitro Powder". Nitro powder had been around about 20 years or more by then. Problems occurred in the 1920's when double base nitro powders came around and Win started loading Super-X loads at increased pressures.
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Friday 15th of April 2011 09:53:36 PM
I was just kidding!! We all know that us sportman are the real consevationist not the limosine librals!!