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Thread: Brass Discoloration with WSF Powder

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    neimi24s, I did some trolling through the threads in this section and found one from you from years ago that saved me some trouble. You had a method you illustrated on how to determine minimum COL on any bullet even if it isn't in a reloading manual. I did this on both my Powerbond plated bullets and Precision Delta bullets. I found that the test rounds I had loaded waiting to get back to the range had half of them below minimum COL. I certainly won't be shooting those. I also found that my R-P brass varies in length while my WIN brass is quite consistent.

    Thanks for all the testing and reporting you do here.

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    You're welcome. I occasionally load some short ones too. Then I just use a bullet puller to lengthen them a bit and re-seat them to the proper length. Works OK with lead bullets unless the case mouth is crimped into the bullet.
    When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. [Lord Kelvin]

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    Quote Originally Posted by niemi24s View Post
    You're welcome. I occasionally load some short ones too. Then I just use a bullet puller to lengthen them a bit and re-seat them to the proper length. Works OK with lead bullets unless the case mouth is crimped into the bullet.
    I do the same thing with carry ammo that’s been chambered a few times and experienced bullet setback.
    "Sights are for the unenlightened."

    Rick

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    I never would have thought to check carry ammo. I'll look into that too.

    I've started a project checking all of my ready to load empty brass for length per SAAMI specs. Since .888 is the lower limit I've rejected anything below that including lengths of .8875. That may be splitting hairs but I have a lot of brass. I am finding maybe 10% below spec and none anywhere near the max length of .898.

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