Good afternoon everyone. My son and I reloaded some ammo yesterday.
It was some 308 for the M1919. He did most of it. I watched and double, triple, Quad... checked everything. Not to many issues. He didn't seat one primer deep enough and had one double power drop. All caught with no harm, no fowl.
The only part he did not like was dealing with the powder drop. Close wasn't good enough for the old man in charge.
I ended up setting the drop to about a half a grain under and he used the tricker to top the charge off to the required amount.
He did a good job considering it was his first time doing 99% of it. He cleaned, deprimed, sized, primed, dropped powder and seated bullets. He is a long way away from doing it on his own but he will be able to soon enough if he keeps up the learning like he did yesterday.
When we were done he even used the linker for the first time to belt some up for the next range trip. It might even be yet tonight.
I am eager to try them. Think it will mean a lot more to him to shoot the ammo he loaded himself. I know he is excited to shoot them. We only did about 20 rounds to start. If it all checks out well we will do a few hundred rounds next. The 1919 is a bit fussy about the OAL. They need to be right near the upper end of SAMMI specs or they don't feed well. The round is 43 grains of 2460, bullet = Hornaday 150 grain SP's. With a OAL to the tip of 2.795.
We had a good time. Excellent father son time!
It was some 308 for the M1919. He did most of it. I watched and double, triple, Quad... checked everything. Not to many issues. He didn't seat one primer deep enough and had one double power drop. All caught with no harm, no fowl.
The only part he did not like was dealing with the powder drop. Close wasn't good enough for the old man in charge.
I ended up setting the drop to about a half a grain under and he used the tricker to top the charge off to the required amount.He did a good job considering it was his first time doing 99% of it. He cleaned, deprimed, sized, primed, dropped powder and seated bullets. He is a long way away from doing it on his own but he will be able to soon enough if he keeps up the learning like he did yesterday.
When we were done he even used the linker for the first time to belt some up for the next range trip. It might even be yet tonight.
I am eager to try them. Think it will mean a lot more to him to shoot the ammo he loaded himself. I know he is excited to shoot them. We only did about 20 rounds to start. If it all checks out well we will do a few hundred rounds next. The 1919 is a bit fussy about the OAL. They need to be right near the upper end of SAMMI specs or they don't feed well. The round is 43 grains of 2460, bullet = Hornaday 150 grain SP's. With a OAL to the tip of 2.795.
We had a good time. Excellent father son time!
