05-01-2022, 12:41 PM
Been a while I know...
I bought Hornady custom grade dies and the micrometer seating stem. While waiting for them to arrive I searched the Hornady website in a vain attempt at finding out what actual stem is inside the die. I don't know who designs websites but I find the vast majority severely lacking. Lots of useless marketing pitch and power words but little real information required to make an informed purchase.
Not knowing any better, naturally the first thing I did was buy the "custom" 6mm seating stem only to find afterwards it is the same one that came with the die, so I have a spare I guess.
A few weeks ago I made the trek to the only "big" gun store in this state to see what/if they had, and there was a lot of discontinued Hornady A-Max 105gr on the shelf for $25/100 so I bought 500 of those, and they happened to have TAC so I grabbed some also.
Yesterday I was tipped off that our local Farm & everything else store had Varget on the shelf so I scooted over and grabbed some. I checked Midsouth also and they had A2520, ANo.5 and XTP .312 85gr pistol bullets all in stock so those are on their way. The No.5 and the bullets are for my 7.62 Tok which has been on hold for a year waiting. I think I should have bought a lottery ticket yesterday too.
Not being able to find any other brass, I bought PPU 6.5 from Grafs, and have reformed 25 of them, annealed and prepped. Yes I've heard PPU isin't the best, time will tell.
So shortly, I will have TAC, A2520, and Varget and everything else required to get started.
I bought Hornady custom grade dies and the micrometer seating stem. While waiting for them to arrive I searched the Hornady website in a vain attempt at finding out what actual stem is inside the die. I don't know who designs websites but I find the vast majority severely lacking. Lots of useless marketing pitch and power words but little real information required to make an informed purchase.
Not knowing any better, naturally the first thing I did was buy the "custom" 6mm seating stem only to find afterwards it is the same one that came with the die, so I have a spare I guess.
A few weeks ago I made the trek to the only "big" gun store in this state to see what/if they had, and there was a lot of discontinued Hornady A-Max 105gr on the shelf for $25/100 so I bought 500 of those, and they happened to have TAC so I grabbed some also.
Yesterday I was tipped off that our local Farm & everything else store had Varget on the shelf so I scooted over and grabbed some. I checked Midsouth also and they had A2520, ANo.5 and XTP .312 85gr pistol bullets all in stock so those are on their way. The No.5 and the bullets are for my 7.62 Tok which has been on hold for a year waiting. I think I should have bought a lottery ticket yesterday too.
Not being able to find any other brass, I bought PPU 6.5 from Grafs, and have reformed 25 of them, annealed and prepped. Yes I've heard PPU isin't the best, time will tell.
So shortly, I will have TAC, A2520, and Varget and everything else required to get started.
SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM