Interesting stuff for shooters/reloaders

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here’s some things I thought might be useful information for shooters and reloaders:

*there are 7000 grains in a pound of powder
*revolver ammo in heavy calibers needs to have a heavy roll crimp
*pistol ammo requires a good taper crimp
*“pistol” usually refers to a semi-auto handgun
*it is best to start the “sighting-in” procedure of a 'scoped rifle by looking down the bore of your rifle at a target 25 yards away
*do not mix different types of primers or powder
*there are two types of primer systems, Berdan and Boxer; do not attempt to reload Berdan-primed brass
*a bullet dropped at the muzzle of a rifle at the exact moment that an identical bullet is fired from the rifle will hit the ground at the same time the fired bullet hits the ground; this is one of the principles of determining trajectory in the study of ballistics
*a bullet is not designed to “tumble” in flight; aerodynamic stability is lost and accuracy will suffer if a bullet is not flying nose-forward as it moves down-range

I am sure there are lots of things I have neglected to mention in this first post. And I am also sure there are tons of stuff other folks can share in this thread.

I hope this is the correct place for this thread.

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Okay. I recognize a bad idea when I see one. Y’all didn’t have to hit me over the head with it. Cajun Man, Coldfire, or UncleBeer, please close this thread.

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Or not. As you see fit…

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ever-so-quietly rolls a tumbleweed through

(Nice info, by the way)

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Thank you, GMRyujin. I have lots of info like this, but it is probably of rather limited interest to people outside the “gun culture.” I didn’t want to bore people with a long, long list of stuff if this thread didn’t work. And, it looks like it didn’t work…