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I use the Wolfe Remington springs in mine.

Hey Stan. Just sent a barrel to you today so you can duplicate the contour in a nice new XX CM 7mm. Didn't know you were on the forum.

I've got an Enco 14 x 40 and it is accurate. I'd rather have a new U.S. lathe, but this is what I could afford.

I don't think Douglas laps their barrels but wouldn't bet my life on it. A call to them would answer the question for sure.

If I remember correctly it was Bruce Baer that was commenting about singlepointing the chamber. I don't remember if it was done on a machine that he had or one that someone was trying to sell him. Said it only took a couple of minutes to cut the chamber. Now I don't know if a couple is 2 or 10...

While the debate rages between Butch and TRA I'll just say that after years of running a mold shop I cannot for the life of me see any reason for chambering a barrel on a EDM machine. First of all I don't see the accuracy being as good as doing it on a lathe and the finish won't be as good as a...

I would choose carefully when buying a duplicator. Rigidity, balance and weight are your friends here especially when doing the inletting portion for the action and barrel to avoid gaps. Almost any good quality router motor or spindle will provide enough power to cut with but you really need the...

I'll change the neck and throat dimensions of a reamer but there is nothing to be gained in changing the body dimensions of a standard case except trouble.

A bushing die is a great way to get the outside of your case necks concentric with the rest of the case body. Unfortunately the bullet sits on the inside of the case neck and if the wall thickness of your necks isn't consistent then your bullet will be offset from the rest of the case. I use a...

Yep, been there did that!

Also used some Ridgid on a barrel a couple of weeks ago that did the same thing to me. It was a rented reamer and the guy charged me to have to redone. Never happened to me before. Surface finish in the chamber was poor also. I normally use Rapid Tap but was out of it and this was a chromemoly...

When threading the cross slide is set on "0" and returned to "0" each time after making a cut. The compound is set to 29.5 degrees and this is what you feed the thread cutter with. You use 29.5 degrees so that the front of the cutter takes most of the cut and the cutter is only cutting on one...

Chad, Just curious as to why you decided to go with the Remington style recoil lug instead of the Barnard bedding block or using the slot on the bottom of the action to install a recoil lug there?

I built a 7mm RSAUM for 1,000 yard competition this year. I thought about the .30 calibers and different cases and compared ballistics of different bullets at different velocities vs. recoil (since I shoot prone) and settled on the 7mm. I am pleased to say that I made the right choice for me. I...

I have never gotten a short BR type cartridge to feed reliably from any kind of magazine unless it was a center feed type such as Accuracy International. In other words I have had no luck with Remington or Winchester factory mags even after blocking them. When the rounds feed off the sides...

Dr. Whitaker's explanation is here: http://www.usrifleteams.com/lrforum/index.php?showtopic=12401&st=15 You'll have to look down the page a little bit to find it but he does explain how the Lapua brass came about. You'll have to forgive the other banter going on throughout the page!

Lapua came out with the small primer pocket brass after Dr. Tom Whitaker along with the US Palma and Development team requested it. The only reason for producing the brass was the consistency of the small rifle primers versus the large rifle primers in tests done by Tom Whitaker. Otherwise there...

Morning Joe. I did all of the gunsmithing myself. The barrel was a 30" Douglas and was built in a Palma configuration on a RPA Quadlite action since I am a prone shooter. Dropping back to a 26" barrel might put you slightly under 3400fps but you might be able to get back to it with one of the...

I used a 6mm 250AI for a couple of years that would push a 105 Berger VLD over 3400fps pretty easily with H4350. I chambered the barrel with a 243AI reamer, held it .130 short, necked down and fireformed .250 Savage brass and had me a cartridge that would clean 1,000 yards. Barrel life was over...

If you bought the action as a barrelled action how do you know that the first gunsmith didn't do some accurizing on the action and true the threads himself? It's quite common. Especially with the "truing" tooling available from PTG and Manson. The tap cuts the thread .010 oversize and the set...