Wolf Precision's Long Range Shooting and Custom Rifle Building Podcast
Aug 20, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
Reloading can save you money and produce incredibly accurate ammunition—but one mistake can destroy a rifle or seriously injure you or someone beside you. In this episode, Jamie Dodson talks about…
While this class was going on, there's something that we talk about and we're filming our Patreon reloading class.
And what I find with reloaders, especially for most of the personalities, is two things can happen that really can get you in trouble.
The first part is what I call due diligence, and I really preach the daylights out of this in our reloading class that we teach.
In other words, when you're doing your research for a particular caliber, don't just turn to one book.
So, for example, if I'm reloading for 308, I've got books to go the whole way back to the 70s.
And I'm able to look at all these different, you know, case capacities, powders, you know, really paint a great picture on the, A, when I narrow down, you know, what bullet weight I'm going to use as the list of powders.
You know, where is min and max amongst all of these books using these bullets? And it's a great resource, but it also lets you to look at occasionally you find outliers or in the older books, sometimes you'll find that there's a little bit more powder capacity than what the newer books will publish.
So, for example, a 30-06, you know, you could have rifles out there that really are 100 years old with that chamber and 100-year-old barrel.
So are they really designed to take the modern pressure of modern bolt-action rifle ammunition? Maybe, maybe not.
So you might find that sometimes they actually dial these loads back a little bit on published data just because they're thinking of all the different rifles that this might actually be put in.
So you get into that, then you get the difference between the bolt gun and the gas gun.
While this class was going on, there's something that we talk about and we're filming our Patreon reloading class.
And what I find with reloaders, especially for most of the personalities, is two things can happen that really can get you in trouble.
The first part is what I call due diligence, and I really preach the daylights out of this in our reloading class that we teach.
In other words, when you're doing your research for a particular caliber, don't just turn to one book.
So, for example, if I'm reloading for 308, I've got books to go the whole way back to the 70s.
And I'm able to look at all these different, you know, case capacities, powders, you know, really paint a great picture on the, A, when I narrow down, you know, what bullet weight I'm going to use as the list of powders.
You know, where is min and max amongst all of these books using these bullets? And it's a great resource, but it also lets you to look at occasionally you find outliers or in the older books, sometimes you'll find that there's a little bit more powder capacity than what the newer books will publish.
So, for example, a 30-06, you know, you could have rifles out there that really are 100 years old with that chamber and 100-year-old barrel.
So are they really designed to take the modern pressure of modern bolt-action rifle ammunition? Maybe, maybe not.
So you might find that sometimes they actually dial these loads back a little bit on published data just because they're thinking of all the different rifles that this might actually be put in.
So you get into that, then you get the difference between the bolt gun and the gas gun.
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