Mike,
Thank you for your reply. Too bad we don't live closer as it would be fun to get together to shoot.
On ORSA, Rick may be willing to let you shoot from a chair. It has been done before. Anyway, it is interesting to talk to other enthusiast of nice vintage guns. For me, seeing the match, interesting rifles, and talking to vintage gun enthusiast was worth the drive.
You would think that in a city the size of Atlanta, there would be several good sources of reloading supplies, but I get most of my supplies by on-line ordering. I have not be able to find any IMR 4198 locally except from another shooter that was downsizing his reloading. The big box stores have some reloading supplies as does Outdoor Adventures. Georgia Arms has more supplies but apparently were hurt by a fire. Deer Creek in Kennesaw may have 38/55 and I will check with them.
On the subject of my 9x58.5r S&S, the gun shot well. I was concerned about split brass as I had lost 9.3x82r and 8x58.5R S&S brass due to lateral splits that really show up when the brass is cleaned. I set the brass in 1/2" of water and annealed the whole body and experienced no wasted brass. Unfortunately, my Garmin wasn't charged but plan on shooting at River Bend in a week or so and will check velocity then. Of course, I am really looking for accuracy - both barrels regulating @ 50 yds. My load is 22 gr of IMR 4198 which is 44% of a 50 gr 2F BP load which seems reasonable.
Roy
