Intermittent Failure to Extract??

[Boyd Allen]

By regular press, I meant one that takes threaded dies. I have arbor press dies in the same caliber that you are shooting that I bought a couple of decades ago for a tight necked chamber in a Hart barrel. My press inventory includes a Rock Chucker, Harrell's turret with several turrets, a Harrell's combo press, and a Jones arbor press. If your loads are mild, you can probably body size at home, and neck size at the range up to the limit of what your loads will allow. The nice thing about hobbies is that you get to do them pretty much any way that you want to.

 

[Slowshot]

By regular press, I meant one that takes threaded dies. I have arbor press dies in the same caliber that you are shooting that I bought a couple of decades ago for a tight necked chamber in a Hart barrel. My press inventory includes a Rock Chucker, Harrell's turret with several turrets, a Harrell's combo press, and a Jones arbor press. If your loads are mild, you can probably body size at home, and neck size at the range up to the limit of what your loads will allow. The nice thing about hobbies is that you get to do them pretty much any way that you want to.

My most consistently accurate .222 Remington load in my BAT rifle has been 22.2 grains of H-322, not what you would call a hot load. I was back out to the range with 50 rounds of that load on Wednesday, testing seating depths. I started with the bullets up against the lands. I got a bit of a bump in accuracy with just .01" off the lands. Next, I will try .02" and see what that gives me. Russ Haydon is urging me to load much hotter. I will try that also.

When Russ Haydon was retiring, I bought about 500 pieces of .222 Lapua brass in his going out of business sale. When I attend any match, I plan to have enough prepared brass to shoot the entire match without needing to even neck size. All I will need to do is load powder and bullets for a whole day. Then I can go home and prepare enough brass for the next day. At the first match April 2-3, I will show up on the first day with plenty of my best accuracy load, ready to fire.

 

[Wilbur]

That's the part I missed! You don't currently plan to shoot anywhere that you can't go home and load up some more. Additionally, you have enough cases to load such that if you do travel and can't load at home you're covered as well. Cool....go shoot!