New to Rifle Reloading need help please

The_Jerkman, Unless your shooting same powders/primers as Wby you may not get same accuracy and accuracy for Wby is base on their ammo.

I'm not going to say you can't reload and get better accuracy but your going have to spend some money on different powders. and their no Fed 215 primers.
 
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The_Jerkman, Unless your shooting same powders/primers as Wby you may not get same accuracy and accuracy for Wby is base on their ammo.

I'm not going to say you can't reload and get better accuracy but your going have to spend some money on different powders. and their no Fed 215 primers.
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That's all part of the fun of reloading. My biggest thing at this point is making something that will shoot well and far cheaper than the wby branded rounds. Eventually I would love to perfect the rounds to all be single holes, but obviously I think that will take time and lots of experimentation down the road.

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On another note does anyone have any preference towards tumblers? Sonic vs the regular ones?

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"...Nosler book only seems to include Nosler bullets..." Hi. Any bullet or powder maker's book has data for their products only. Lyman doesn't make bullets or powder.
Calipers are a necessity. Aside from normal measuring of OAL, etc, you can lock 'em to whatever you need and use 'em as a gauge too. Among other things.
You don't need micrometer dies either. Regular dies will be fine. You're already paying a premium for having the word 'Weatherby'. Adds to the price of anything related to it.
6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum is new for 2016. Just a necked down .300 Weatherby Mag. Outdoor life says it's, "set to dethrone the 26 Nosler as the fastest commercial 6.5mm cartridge available." Not many people using .26 No$ler either.
Using it would relegate you to factory ammo until it's determined if the thing will still be around in a year or so. Mind you, there are 2 loads on Handloads.com. Unproven source though. Guy seems to think the distance off the lands is the same for every rifle.
 
Looks like the lyman will be the tumbler for me. I watched a couple videos last night and it looked pretty awesome. One of the guys had a concern about some leftover dust in the cartridges, have you noticed this issue? If so how do you correct it/is it even an issue at all? I figured I could easily just use some canned air on each round. Considering I am not reloading pistol ammo as of yet, that shouldn't be too cumbersome of a job.

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Cut a dryer sheet into small pieces and add it to the media. It helps keep static to a minimum. And make sure you get all the media out of your cases. One time I left about 1/2" in the bottom of a 223 Remington. It bent the decapping rod into a pretzel.
 
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Cut a dryer sheet into small pieces and add it to the media. It helps keep static to a minimum. And make sure you get all the media out of your cases. One time I left about 1/2" in the bottom of a 223 Remington. It bent the decapping rod into a pretzel.
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Yikes, thats not good. And good tip. Definitely will have to stock up on some cheap unscented dryer sheets

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The Jerkman,

You might also want to look at this tumbler kit for the increasingly popular stainless steel pin cleaning method. It is a bit more effort, but allows the water-soluble and toxic lead priming compound dust to be captured in the liquid and flushed down the drain, rather than getting into the air when you separate. This is a consideration particularly if you have small children or pets around.
 
Agree w Mr. O'Heir. And I will add K.I.S.S. To start I would suggest to keep it as simple as possible. Learn basic reloading, then expand into making bench rest, 1,000 yard ammo as your experience grows. No need to have your first rounds produce 2" groups at 1/2 mile, nice but not the norm. Part of the fun...

Go slow, double check everything, and most important, have fun...
 
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"Looks like the lyman will be the tumbler for me. I watched a couple videos last night and it looked pretty awesome. One of the guys had a concern about some leftover dust in the cartridges, have you noticed this issue? If so how do you correct it/is it even an issue at all? I figured I could easily just use some canned air on each round. Considering I am not reloading pistol ammo as of yet, that shouldn't be too cumbersome of a job."

Dust is always an issue with tumbling media. It's pretty easy to keep it down to a non-bothersome level. As needed, I take mine outside when there is a light breeze and pour it from one container into another from a height of about 3 feet three or four times. The light breeze takes the dust away nicely and I'm left with reasonably fresh media. Works for me. Others may have a different opinion. I use walnut media.
 
This is a consideration particularly if you have small children or pets around.
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I just started wet tumbling for that very reason . It reduce the contaminates to just about nothing . I de-capped 1k 9mm cases last night that had already been through the wet tumbler . After 1k cases my fingers barely had any soot on them and I think that came from the tub I was pulling then from .

It is a little more work . The first time I did it it seemed like WAY to much work but once you get an order sequence in which you drain , rinse and spread out . It's really not that bad . There is a benefit for me as well . When I only dry tumbled , after de-capping I'd clean primer pockets and bush necks before first tumble . Those two steps are eliminated when wet tumbling because it's done for you and better then I could ever do . So It may take a little more effort to wet tumble but I save time and effort by not having to clean the primer pockets and necks manually . I did not do any math or timing on it but I consider it a wash .
 
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I just started wet tumbling for that very reason . It reduce the contaminates to just about nothing . I de-capped 1k 9mm cases last night that had already been through the wet tumbler . After 1k cases my fingers barely had any soot on them and I think that came from the tub I was pulling then from .

It is a little more work . The first time I did it it seemed like WAY to much work but once you get an order sequence in which you drain , rinse and spread out . It's really not that bad . There is a benefit for me as well . When I only dry tumbled , after de-capping I'd clean primer pockets and bush necks before first tumble . Those two steps are eliminated when wet tumbling because it's done for you and better then I could ever do . So It may take a little more effort to wet tumble but I save time and effort by not having to clean the primer pockets and necks manually . I did not do any math or timing on it but I consider it a wash .
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Sounds like in your opinion I'll get a cleaner case from wet tumbling

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Yes it does but that's not an opinion it's just fact . Wet tumbling cleans everything off and out of cases if done correctly . That said dry tumbling is an adequate way to clean your cases .

I still do a final dry tumble to make my cases VERY blingy
 
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Yes it does but that's not an opinion it's just fact . Wet tumbling cleans everything off and out of cases if done correctly . That said dry tumbling is an adequate way to clean your cases .

I still do a final dry tumble to make my cases VERY blingy
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Interesting. Well if you had to decide one or the other which would be the better to start off with? If there is one that can be put off for later then I'd rather not get the more optional one just yet. Too many expensive trips upcoming courtesy of the lady's desire to go back to Austria for a trip and my hunting trip thats been in the works for 5 years now lol

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If you are looking to get by for awhile and not spend much . It's hard to beat the Frankford arsenal tumbler kit because it has everything you need at a very good price . It's not the best but I bought the very kit linked below and after thousands of cases tumbled . It still works just fine . It does not have the vibration it did when new but I can still put 150 - 308 cases in it and it gets the job done

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/41...th-quick-n-ez-rotary-media-separator-110-volt
 
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Names Jeff I am planning on getting into reloading for my latest addition a .300Wby. I plan to start reloading for the rifle come the middle/end of July for an upcoming mule deer & antelope hunt first week of October.
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Did you get an antelope tag?
I did not draw one for 2016, but I do have a mule buck tag.
I shot a mule buck in 2015 with a 300WinMag 125 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip. I shot a couple does in 2015 too with a 6.5-06 120 gr Nosler Ballistic tip.

The range at which you can keep the bullets in the kill zone is what matters. I practice shooting long range and handload carefully to get the range out to 400, 500, [or 600 yards with the 6.5-06.] Then when I shoot the deer at 250 yards, I could have spent the preseason watching TV.

I think the fastest way to learn how to handload rifle cartridges is to watch someone do it. When I don't know how to do something, I look for a video on youtube. If there is not video, I may have to figure out how to do it, and then make a video to help others.
 
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