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I know this is probably been discussed to death, but I can't find anything on this forum that really answers my questions so here I go.  I finnaly found a company that might be able to supply me with all my reusable reloading supplies that I need.  So here are my questions to the reloaders on the board.

1.  What type and brand of primers are you using?  The only reloading data I have at the moment is the Hornady 7th edition handboook of Cartridge Reloading and they used a Remington 7 1/2 primer, and from that I can gather from Remington that particular primer is a small rifle magnum primer.  Now all the stuff I'v ever been tough about reloading is never to use magnum primers on anything other than magnum loads.  So am I wrong in thinking that the 5.56/.223 a magnum load?  If it isn't then why is Hornady using a magnum primer?

2.  What powder are you using?  Hornady has about 5 different velocity data for different powders but I"m curious to what people are really using.


3.  What kind of velocity and pressures are you getting?  I know thats more of a technical question that most people don't have the equipment for but curious to see if anyone does have that information.

4.  What are some of the demensions of a 5.56 case after its been reloaded.  For example the Hornad book for .223 says the trimed case length should be 1.750" and the max case length should be 1.760" and the finnaly completely reloaded round the maximum case overall length about be no more that 2.260".  I'm just curious if those demnsions apply to 5.56 does it have its own special demensions.

5   Lastly but probably most importantly what dies are you using?  I have lee single state reloading press that I'm going to be using for reloading and I"m just curious as to what dies everone else is using.


Thanks again for any help and information
Gary