Precision Reloading

Precision reloading is all about accuracy in all you do to prepare for the shot. Hi I have been reloading for twenty five years or more some years I do very little reloading but some years I do a lot. I have found the biggest factor to maintain accuracy in your reloads is to keep good reloading data.

The best reloading data you can get is the consistent checking and tracking your shot groups and powder loads. Then try using other bullet makers and different weights of lead and soon you have more data than you need to start making good plans for your best hunting rounds. Just keeping the data is a job now I could just take the lap top to the range and load it to a spread sheet but back when I did lots and needed to keep track it was on the back of targets or right on the target. I even took a note book out to the range by accident once in a while. This is the first year I have not had my RCBS Rock Chucker set up because moving sucks. I must be getting old because I have an office now in my retirement house and want to set my half of the office up right.
I want my desk and reloading to be all one wall floor to sealing. I am going to build it and leave the front all open so I can just move the office chair from computer to reload with a roll side ways. I will have the cupboards above and below the desk top/computer desk/reloading bench. I am going to build places for my screens and have the proper lockup cupboards for primers and loads. The powder mag I may build under the floor just in case it goes up I will be half the way there HA HA. I think if I use 3/4 inch plywood for the desk top and put an oak veneer on top it will look good.

I have all summer to dream it up then I have a new seven mill mag to reload for. The new 700 Senduro from Remington is a twenty six inch semi bull barrel. I think with the new powder I can get it well over 3000 fps with less than one inch groups at one hundred yards. That is my first goal then work for the longer range precision. I want to try the new powders out and see all the improvements.

I am thinking of loading a heavy round with five and six hundred yard accuracy for elk and just in case Griz shots I never want to have to take. I guess I am not much of a trophy hunter I have never hunted for bear much I have and it can be a real challenge it is just that I have choices where I live and I like elk and deer hunting better.