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Posted: 4/28/2011 3:58:45 PM EDT
My brother-in-law (wife's brother) passed away about 10 years ago. My wife was at a funeral a couple weeks ago, and was talking to his wife, and mentioned that I said (jokingly) that when I go, I want to be cremated, then a pinch of my ashes added to each one of my rounds for my son and friends to shoot in the matches at Camp Perry the following year. That way I can have them spread all over the range at Perry! (Maybe I wasn't joking!  ).
My sister-in-law got a kick out of that, and told my wife that she didn't know I reloaded, and if I would want some of my BIL's stuff. I knew that my nephew shoots, and said whatever he doesn't want, I'll go ahead and take (not knowing what all he had, either). Went over to my SIL's house yesterday, and they had pulled it all out. An RCBS press, powder dispenser, and beam scale, MEC 600 reloaders in 12 and 20 gauge (which look brand new), 3 manuals that look to be about 20-30 years old, .38 Special and .30-06 dies, a bunch of .30-06, .38, and .22-250 brass, assorted bullets, couple bags of #7-1/2 shot, and a few 1-lb cans of IMR-4320 powder. I was just floored. There are also some loaded .30-06 rounds, I think I'm going to pull the bullets and dump the powder, as they're not marked with charge weights or powder type. They did a bunch of prairie dog shooting with a .22-250, which I imagine is for what he was using the IMR-4320? Is this a decent powder for .223? I'm going to assume that it's still good, as it was stored in the basement. I told my nephew that I didn't want to take all of that, but he said that he doesn't really have the room or the time to use it (as it's sat for 10 years now). I told him that I'll take it, and not get rid of it, and that whenever he wants to or has a chance to get back into reloading, it goes back to him. And my SIL didn't want anything for it, either. I miss my brother-in-law still, but this'll definitely make me think of him with good feelings when I use it! He was a heckuva guy who would drop whatever he was doing to help anyone out if they needed it. And he was my son's favorite uncle and Godfather, so he's pretty excited to have it also. Told me that if I don't mind, he'd like to clean it all up once he's done with school in a couple of weeks. I think he really wants to do that, and I have no problem with it. Anyway, just thought I'd share the story. Now I need to make a bigger bench so I can mount the additional press! ETA: Just noticed this was in the wrong forum, asked the mods to move it. Living up to my screen name! |
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They did a bunch of prairie dog shooting with a .22-250, which I imagine is for what he was using the IMR-4320? Is this a decent powder for .223? Thought IMR-4320 is a bit slow for a .223, so went to http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp to look it up. Was surprised to learn it can be used to load .223, but as expected, max velocity is lower than if using something else. Such as Varget, IMR-4895, or H4895. Not sure I'd use 4320 in an AR either - pressure curve might be a bit slow, which could result in bent or torn case rims. |
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Around 1988 Bill Wylde had a Precision Shooting article talking about these crazy AR-15 match rifles he was building. At the time they were using very heavy for caliber, 69gr. Sierra bullets. LoL! He actually had some IMR 4320 loads as well as H414 and some other stuff. Nothing we would use today, but he was just reporting what they were using. If I remember correctly I copied some of his 4320 loads for my first year at Camp Perry. I have no idea what the velocity was though.
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... There are also some loaded .30-06 rounds, I think I'm going to pull the bullets and dump the powder, as they're not marked with charge weights or powder type. It still surprises me how that's the norm, not the exception. From my observations of folks inherited handloads and such, they are almost never labeled. Which is just baffling to me, all of my hand loads are labeled with date, powder type and charge, primer, bullet mfg and type - as well as a lot number. Sometimes I'll label brass life, crimp, and OAL. Yet I swear, I think most hand-loads are in Zip-locks, and usually without a label, but sometimes with Sharpie saying useful info like "Hot hunting loads". |
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... There are also some loaded .30-06 rounds, I think I'm going to pull the bullets and dump the powder, as they're not marked with charge weights or powder type. It still surprises me how that's the norm, not the exception. From my observations of folks inherited handloads and such, they are almost never labeled. Which is just baffling to me, all of my hand loads are labeled with date, powder type and charge, primer, bullet mfg and type - as well as a lot number. Sometimes I'll label brass life, crimp, and OAL. Yet I swear, I think most hand-loads are in Zip-locks, and usually without a label, but sometimes with Sharpie saying useful info like "Hot hunting loads". It shouldn't suprise you, the oldtimers had their fav loads and didn't deviate from them and always knew what they had. For my hunting guns, I have my fav loads that I don't mark because that's all I load for them. 'Borg |
yep, I have some stuff unlabeled like my 7mm-8 rounds for my model 7. I only load one load and it's in my reloading log book. Last 4 batches are all the same. 
On the other hand I do get myself in trouble not keeping track of brass batches. Sometimes I clean them and put them in a box and forget which batch they are. Which means they're now in the plinking batch of empty brass. ETA- Use it in good health OP. I'd rather my tools go to someone I'd considered a friend than get tossed in the trash can which is likely what my family would do. PS- I don't plan to go anywhere yet so save your dibs you wretches.
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Around 1988 Bill Wylde had a Precision Shooting article talking about these crazy AR-15 match rifles he was building. At the time they were using very heavy for caliber, 69gr. Sierra bullets. LoL! He actually had some IMR 4320 loads as well as H414 and some other stuff. Nothing we would use today, but he was just reporting what they were using. If I remember correctly I copied some of his 4320 loads for my first year at Camp Perry. I have no idea what the velocity was though. B I used to shoot with a couple of guys that made Master shooting 69 grain MK's on the full length course; they earned it. |
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.....when I go, I want to be cremated, then a pinch of my ashes added to each one of my rounds for my son and friends to shoot in the matches at Camp Perry the following year.... I said something similar to my wife recently, but I wanted my ashes loaded piecemeal into linked .308 rounds and fired from the Dillon Aero M134 minigun |
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... There are also some loaded .30-06 rounds, I think I'm going to pull the bullets and dump the powder, as they're not marked with charge weights or powder type. It still surprises me how that's the norm, not the exception. From my observations of folks inherited handloads and such, they are almost never labeled. Which is just baffling to me, all of my hand loads are labeled with date, powder type and charge, primer, bullet mfg and type - as well as a lot number. Sometimes I'll label brass life, crimp, and OAL. Yet I swear, I think most hand-loads are in Zip-locks, and usually without a label, but sometimes with Sharpie saying useful info like "Hot hunting loads". Have you been shooting with me? I do write useful stuff like 2.3grn Bullseye 95grn JHP on my Ziplocs. |
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I'll try to get a pic of it posted this week, been out of town for a bit. But I did notice one thing last night while I was organizing things - some of the components still had their original price stickers on them:
1 lb can of IMR-4320 ... $7.95. 100 CCI large rifle primers ... $1.00 100-count box of Speer .38 wadcutters ... $5.95 Man, times have changed!! |
Thats nice! I also scored a big find yesterday. About 25 full boxes of .308 hunting bullets at $5.00 a box and hundreds of rounds of various types of brass for free. Then there's K's of new loaded ammo to go through yet that I'm going to make an offer for that probably won't be accepted because It will be more than they want for it. This is why I love being a handloader.
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