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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  2mo ago (text post)   554 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for January 28, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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Tested out some handloads in my 1903 and my M1 this weekend, both feed great and shot even better. Hit steel at 200 yards on demand not much more I could ask for

What's a handload?

What the layman refers to as a "bullet" is actually a cartridge, which is made up of four main components: a case, a primer, a propellent charge, and a projectile (the actual bullet). Assembling these components is known as "loading". If the assembly is done at a factory, the cartridge is "factory-loaded", but you can also buy the components separately and assemble them yourself, which is known as "handloading". In addition to being cheaper, handloading also allows for a significantly higher ceiling on the quality of the finished cartridges, and also allows for the creation of variant cartridges that aren't commercially available in a factory loading.

Most serious competition shooters specializing in accuracy use handloads, and a lot of hobbyists do as well, generally for the cost savings and increased accuracy available.

Thats better than I could have described it, I mostly do it for cost lowers 30-06 to about the cost of shooting an AR which is nice

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