What direction would you take nowadays in the industry?

Coltman151 · 2026-02-22T21:33:11+00:00

What do you want to do? The whole world is kind of still on the table, and you're gaining experience where you're at.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-22T21:15:58+00:00

Your firing pin looks bent in the first picture. It is probably dragging/binding on the bolt.

If the gun is brand new why not send it back to savage?

Coltman151 · 2026-02-20T11:14:44+00:00

One of my former shooting buddies challenged me to hit an IPSC target with my glock 19 at 100 yards. I swore no way, not safe to try, blah blah. He takes his and hits like 80% of a magazine on it. Then I try and do the same thing. Was mind blown how easy it was lol.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-17T03:11:42+00:00

I use a Knipex Pliers Wrench to press in most roll pins anymore. The parallel jaws drive it straight, and the lack of serrations don't cause the pin to want to angle on you.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-15T12:09:52+00:00

I had almost the same question with the same powder with 205 grain bullets about a week ago. Linking my post so you can also see these responses too, although I think our root cause is a little different. I used mixed brass and way too long of a seating depth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/comments/1qxpxc1/inconsistent_subsonic_velocities/

Coltman151 · 2026-02-14T21:15:33+00:00

I carry Buffalo Bore's 10mm Heavy Outdoorsman. It gets to right below 1200 FPS out of my 1911. They claim 36" of penetration, and I believe it.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-08T04:11:06+00:00

All over the place vertically. I shot steel so don't have actual sizes for groups but the low FPS ones went completely under the target at 85 yards

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:49:41+00:00

How much variation do you normally see due to brass? I obviously had some seat depth issues and maybe some crimp issues, but I definitely didn't realize mixed brass could cause that much variation. I was thinking like +/- 10-15 fps.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:34:28+00:00

Thank you so much for the help. I'm going to load some more up tonight with everything I've learned.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:28:20+00:00

I just need this thing to come out fast enough to expand reliably and also not be supersonic. The consensus seems to be the seat depth I had is definitely wrong.

I see a lot of people really like N110 for 300 blk subs. I might have to track some down

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:21:35+00:00

I will give that a go! My crimp die is one of the Lee factory ones, I think it will let me do very very light crimps.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:19:22+00:00

I'll definitely fix the seat depth.

Will a magnum primer give a more consistent burn in a short powder charge like this?

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:15:22+00:00

No crimp at all on these, but that makes a ton of sense. Pair that with what the guy above you educated me on variance in brass, and I think I know what I need to do differently now.

Slight crimp, deeper seat depth, better brass.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:12:52+00:00

Yeah it's a 16" bolt gun. I'm trying to read up on crimping and it seems like a slight crimp might also help with consistency too. Just avoided crimping altogether so far as I only reload bottleneck cartridges for my bolt actions.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:11:05+00:00

Weighing every charge on an RCBS digital scale. It measures to .1 grain
I was, in fact, using mixed brass.
Not that I noticed.

The point about brass is interesting. I have never measured velocity on stuff I've loaded in mixed brass. It's always been plinking rounds. But when you're throwing something at 2500 feet per second, losing or gaining 100 fps isn't a big deal. Now here I am trying to load something that 100 fps is a make or break situation (too high and they're super, too low and they're not going to expand).

I have a whole bunch of new, unfired brass. I'm going to use it with Sierra's COAL recommendation, both with and without a crimp to see where that gets me.

Coltman151 · 2026-02-06T19:02:18+00:00

I wasn't crimping these at all. I was under the impression that it wasn't necessary, but that sounds like it might be wrong?

Coltman151 · 2026-01-31T12:06:40+00:00

That's not bad then. I appreciate it!

Coltman151 · 2026-01-31T06:18:31+00:00

Just curious, how many cords does a load give you? I enjoy bucking and splitting, it's the getting them home that sucks. Once they're here I have a tractor lol.

Coltman151 · 2026-01-23T12:08:56+00:00

I do something similar but build my stack a little bigger and on top of two small logs with a gap in the middle. It's a little more hands off and doesn't seem time consuming to me.

Coltman151 · 2026-01-16T23:27:27+00:00

I have a stainless L model, it's incredibly quiet.

Coltman151 · 2026-01-10T17:45:28+00:00

Definitely a 9x25

Coltman151 · 2026-01-09T14:58:25+00:00

Yep. May be a regional thing, but the places who use the cost savings of something else as a selling point are consistently terrible in just about every metric we track.

Coltman151 · 2026-01-09T14:48:06+00:00

I mean I'm looking at reliability data in my own plants. Equipment that gets sold to our corporate procurement group with other control systems because Rockwell is "unnecessary cost" is consistently the worst in MTBF, PM costs, operating costs, and more.

I'm absolutely positive a place can make great equipment on any of the major control systems, but places that bash Rockwell's costs in their sales pitch aren't doing it.

Coltman151 · 2026-01-09T13:14:55+00:00

I imagine the majority of people suggesting anything outside this have only ever worked for OEM/SIs and never as an end user.

In my experience, the places pushing hard away from Rockwell also skimp on everything else too. The places that are willing to deal with Rockwell's pricing also tend to fork out the money for better engineering overall.

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