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Old June 12, 1999, 08:47 PM   #4
Art Eatman
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Join Date: November 13, 1998
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I concur with the prior posts. I'll add a few comments.

Deburring of primer pockets is needed mostly with GI brass that hasn't been reloaded. In any primer pocket, clean out the black residue--it's brittle, and is easily removed with either the end of a screwdriver or the metal brushes designed for that.

Definitely get the chamfering tool,and lightly work over the case mouths.

If your '06 is a bolt action, you need only neck-size if your brass was originally fired in your chamber. The cases will last longer.

I have liked the Sierra loading books, since there is so much technical info in them as well as good loads.

Starter '06 loads would be:

100-grain Plinkers--50 grains of 4064.

110-grain for varmints--50 grains of 3031.

I prefer boattail bullets for my hunting; 150-grain--49 or 50 grains of 4064.

Dupont 4895 is another good powder. And, many of the newer powders work quite well.

If you want, gas-check lead bullets around 150 to 180 grains are great plinkers with 20 grains of 2400.

Short-range "hand grenades" would include the 80-grain .32-20 bullet swaged down to .308, and loaded with 50+ grains of 3031. This will give 3,800, maybe 4,000 fps. (The bullet might vaporize, but what the heck...) Back during the drouth of the '50s, when jackrabbits competed with our cows for grass, I found this load to be very interesting...

A last play-time load is the .32 caliber )) Buck, ahead of 5 grains of shotgun powder, Bullseye, etc. Great squirrel load.
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