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In our region here in Aus we are looking to install a set of rules for long range range matches at 1000 yards and at a later date 600 yards. We are trying to keep as close as we can to the IBS set of rules for both. If we use sections of those existing IBS rules for our own purposes and are...

It has been noted that there is a shift away by many of the salesmen from using the term "Global Warming" to now use "Climate change". The warming and cooling fit in with "change" far better and so the bull can be sold both ways. The extreme cold you guys are having, the long hot dry and...

Go here http://www.roedale.de/epages/roedale.htm Am a wrong in saying that the drop port system developed by Jerry Stiller has a patent on it when it comes to commercial manufacture? Or is this just a case of royalties payed to Mr Stiller? Tony Z.

Joel and Charles, what Jeff didn't tell you about that pic on the beach is that in our part of the world we have issues with salt water crocodiles. So what every self respecting Aussie bloke does is send in the wife to see if it's safe to swim, then if she doen't disappear, the dog gets sent in...

Henry, you have been missed on this forum for a long time now by a lot of members, myself included. Jeff Rogers and i have over the years discussed a lot of your posts and have both used information you have emailed to Jeff to both our benefits. As a matter of fact, most all we know and do now...

4Mesh, i am looking to start making actions on a much larger scale than an occasional one off for myself. If this works out, i will get 50 to 100 cut ASAP. As for the cost, i must be missing something here as the quotes i have been given are a fraction of what it would be with an EDM. The EDM is...

Some weeks back, one of our members posted a thread about barrel steel choices and methods of action construction. Well since i have been evaluating the costs associated with action manufacture, i recently came to the most often asked hurdle of cutting raceways in action recievers. In the past i...

I agree, for consistancy there is nothing like a coated carbide. I have used for many years now the Kennametal topnotch external and internal setup. The best part is that with just a turn of the allen key, you can replace the threading insert with a grooving insert to do the thread relief in a...

I just need to clear something up. Earlier i stated that 709M is similar to 4340. It is indeed classified as a 4140 and has often been called free machining 4140. The reason it is also often refered to as 4340 is because its actual tensile strength is almost identical to that of 4340. The...

Leeroy, if you do a search on this forum you will see mention of a couple of actions i built some years back. In 2001 i built the action i called the Remroid, just an expanded Rem 700 with a few little extras worth while adding. Anyway, the steel used was 709M. Essentially this is a free...

John, fortunately for you in Australia there are two ways of shooting 1000 yard BR. Spotted, ala FClass, and the blind method as used by all the US sanctions. What is interesting is that all the marks and everything worth winning has been done with the blind method. I guess the blind...

Jerry, that brand prejudice you mention has more to do with the trigger than most anything else. The floating bolt head is now being recognised as a good thing. The bolt lift your talking about i am not familiar with as i find my Rem 700s not as easy to work as the Savage FTR action i have...

There are some very good boring bars available to do this now. The best thing about doing chambers this way is that once the barrel is done, replace it with a bit of bar stock and then just a little off the x and y axis and you have the perfect sizing die. I do suggest that the throat be done...

Jerry, it would seem that i just got plain lucky with my own FTR in 308 as it shoots very well and the barrel cleans up easily. To add to your last PS, Savage could have done just one thing to place their target actions on top of the heap for budget rifle building. Use a conventional 6 o'clock...

Having used both brands in my own HG current barrel, the Lapua will not hold up on the primer pockets like the RWS does. Not by a long way. The consistancy for weight and the concentricity for both brands in the batches i have used show up as being similar, both very good. Tony Z.

Don i have been using this stock in competition for about 18 months now. It was originally to be a VFS, LV and HV rifle, but because of its stability, especially during the loading and unloading process, i turned it into my 600 and 1K rifle. When l looked at making it, i kept to the conventional...

Lew i would agree... Jackie and Lynn have the patience of Saints. Tony Z.

Joel, the only reason Jeff and i are a little "fixed" on this wall consistantcy thing is because somewhere along the line we have come to believe that tension, or rather compression, can place an unwanted bend in the setup. Thin side compresses more than the thick side, thus tilting the muzzle...

Way ahead of you Lynn. I know both Jeff and yourself have been talking via email, so i made mention to him last night that he let you know that i can do a complete tube and fitting setup for you. You will just have to get your smith to turn the thread to match up the barrel nut. Jeff will talk...

Jay, Idaho If i can recall, Charles Bailey's tube gun looked a little like the USS Enterprise out of Startrek, where it had two pods that ran in seperate bags, and the tube was something in the vacinity of a six inch diameter bore casing. Now that's what i call muzzle control, which is what i...