#HandLoading

Frankford Arsenal claims that their  Perfect Seat Hand Primer is “designed so you can have the perfect primer seat every time.” That is a bold claim, but in a world where primers cost $90/1000 if you can find them, it hurts to waste any to improper seating. Let’s take a look and see if the Frankford Arsenal Perfect Seat Hand Primer lives up to its name.

A lot of people within reloading circles have been wondering, “where has all the powder gone” as of late? With Hodgdon Powder providing the handloading community with so many popular brands of smokeless propellants – Hodgdon, IMR, and Winchester – they have some answers for us in this 2020 Update that was posted to their Facebook page on Friday, January 31st.

Federal Premium‘s coveted Hydra-Shok bullet that has been backed by law enforcement and civilians the world over is finally being sold as an individual reloading component so you can handload your own Hydra-Shok ammunition. Over the past year Federal Premium has been bolstering their reloading component offerings to shooters and the announcement of the Hydra-Shok bullet may be the most exciting yet.

A European company called Armanov makes different firearm parts and accessories as well as reloading equipment. In this article, we’ll take a look at a case gauge box made by this company which makes the headspace checking of loaded ammunition a much faster process.

Hodgdon Powder Company announced the introduction of a new smokeless powder for 2018 under the Winchester Smokeless Powders brand. Called WinClean 244, this new ball powder is formulated to be a good powder for handgun cartridges like the .38 Special, 9mm and .45 ACP.

IMR recently announced an addition to its Enduron line of powders. The new powder is the IMR 8133. The 8133 is the fifth powder offering in the Enduron line.

The 6.5mm Creedmoor finally has some more published data behind it for prospective reloaders of the caliber. Sierra Bullets, the company known for  good bullets in green boxes, finally has some published data on the hot little Creedmoor.

The following is a guest article written for TFB by reader Tim about his efforts with his friend Paul to recreate the historical .280 British (7x43mm) round developed for the EM-2 and FAL rifles during the early pre-NATO rifle trials of the late 1940s. Enjoy!

Earlier this year, Redding Reloading Equipment added a pair of new Premium Die Sets to its catalog: one for the 26 Nosler and a second for the 280 Ackley Improved.

Why do some cartridges burn barrels more than others? What makes a smaller-caliber, higher velocity round toastier to your bore, and how can you compare one caliber to another in this respect? While it’s not the whole answer to this question, today we’re going to talk about a major component to this equation, and that’s heat flux.

Just in time for Christmas, Nosler released the eight edition of its Reloading Guide. The Reloading Guide is a hard bound book that has been updated to include information on the 26 Nosler, 28 Nosler and 30 Nosler. The book also has updates to reflect current powder and bullet offerings.

Hornady Manufacturing added a number of reloading components to its line-up recently.

Barnes Bullets announced the addition of a .270 caliber bullet to the company’s LRX line of component bullets.  The new bullet is 129 grains and will retail for $39.46 for a box of 100 bullets.

Blackfork is trying to develop subsonic loads for his .223:

A South African on rec.guns asked about hunting geese with his 30-06!