Break’s over

Yeah, yeah. I took a break. Or more like the creative juices called in sick. So here we are.

Went to the Long Range last weekend. A bunch of guys were just finishing up and offered me their once-fired .308 brass – of course I said yes. About 150 cartridges, plus a couple dozen Commie 7.62x 54 R. I don’t use that stuff.
I shot about 50 rounds of 120 g. 6.5 Creedmoor, walking it out from 300 to 1100. It did well, but was consistently shooting a couple MOA higher than my ballistics program. I was using Alliant 4350 powder instead of my usual Hodgdon; perhaps burn rate was the issue? I did adjust for MV from the chrono and it still went high. I’ll just make note of that.

So I brought out some 147s and started right at 1107. On the large rectangle target in three rounds, so I shot at some of the smaller targets. An invisible left to right breeze required 4 MOA of correction; I ended the day with a satisfying hit on the Fox target. A good day.

Today I did brass.

All annealed and rinsed, ready to size when dry. I also annealed the beejeesus out of my left thumb and forefinger. Text dinged and I knew it was a relative responding to my birthday wishes. Distracted, I reached for the propane knob and instead grabbed the neck of the .308 brass I had just annealed. Lesson: don’t get distracted. D’oh.