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If you still have your original firing pin assembly, reinstall it and your troubles will go away unless something else has been modified contrary to Remington specifications. There is no meaningful advantage in deviating from the original Remington specification of spring tension, firing pin...

Freebore Don is correct...a .020" freebore at .2435 diameter would work for this bullet. You could also seat a bullet in a fired PPC or unfired 220R case at your desired seating depth, and I can custom throat the barrel accordingly at no extra charge. If you have any questions, you can call...

I think we all tend to develop a nonchalant attitude when performing redundant day-to-day routines, such as driving a car or using power tools. I also see this trend in many of the shooting disciplines, and benchrest is not an exception. This is why I frown upon these unconventional reloading...

Outdoor Life This article by Jim Carmichael was published in Outdoor Life sometime between 1983 and 1987. It was interesting not only for the cartridge, but also for Jim's use of a ballistics calculation program on a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer...remember those!? :eek: I have this magazine...

Fliriting with the Grim Reaper Joe, I would like to commend you for bringing up questionable fireforming techniques on this forum. I cringe when I hear how some BR shooters are fireforming their cases. I fear for their safety. I fear for my safety if I’m in the vicinity where some of this...

Hey Al, Now there is a blast from the past! I still have those pictures....someplace, stored on a Zip-Disk (remember those?) Unfortunately, I misplaced it among my mountains of junk. I also had them transferred to a CD, but it is inaccessible due to errors or other factors that won't let me...

Install the original Remington firing pin assembly, with the original factory non-fluted Remington pin and spring, unless it is the "J-Lock" style. If this is the case, obtain an original style assembly. They can be obtained from Brownell's. The Remington action was designed for this...

It looks like it could be a case of the tailstock center driven hard into the firing pin hole. A very common screw up on the "squared-and-trued" bolts. Almost every trued Remington bolt that comes into our shop for barrel fitting has this problem.

Jackie et al. In my experience, the best way to do this for competition shooting is using a combination of methods. Shoulder gage and the stripped bolt test. Using a shoulder gage/caliper is good method to insure a rough estimate. I use this method to rough set dies, and to keep shoulder...

Yes. But there is no way to disentangle this extraneous variable from the test. In my experience with several railguns, with scopes that range from Unertl, Lyman, B&L, new and old Leupold and March, there is no way to pinpoint this error…I’m now referring to a single railgun with a single...

Don, Incidentally, the two railgun test had both railguns on the same bench, with the scopes a foot apart or so. I’m not sure how complicated the setup for testing would need to be to detect .020-.030” movement at 100 yards, but I still find it hard to believe it can be done reliably with a...

Yes – I winced when I read this pulp fiction. One of these days somebody will get injured or killed with this hand tight barrel nonsense. When I’m on the firing line, I sure hope my neighbor has his barrel tighter than hand tight and his action port is not pointed toward me. In our shop, many...

Frank: I’m not sure where some of these numbers come from (i.e. .020” POI shift, “dialing in” this or that part to .0001”) that are thrown around with impunity in this forum. Remember, General Custer got into big trouble with overgeneralization of numbers, as has our present federal...

Bad Idea As a general rule, exchanging brass between barrels is NOT recommended…for a variety of reasons. I don’t want to sound condescending, but I can get away with it with my barrels simply because I know what to look for with the tolerances necessary, but most shooters in my experience...

Standard dimensions Jerry: Sorry...I forgot about this thread. I had a "Predator" action in the shop today. I installed one of our triggers, and the pin located under the firing pin block needed to be .540" long. It functioned with no drag or slam-fire, with the trigger pull weight set...

Trigger function It is true that with the Kelbly BR trigger, one can experience a problem with drag on release of the cocking piece, or an insufficient amount of engagement between the cocking piece and the top bar bearing surface. This is easily corrected with a different size pin located...

March scope weights 10-60x variable: 25.4 oz. 40x fixed: (599 grams) 21.12 oz. A fixed 60x might be a little too much for outdoor benchrest shooting at 100-200 yards. 40x or 50x fixed would be more practical Greg Walley Kelbly's Inc.

Warranty, POI, etc. Jackie: To answer your question – there were a few complaints about a focusing problem when the scopes were first released. These were replaced or repaired for the customers at no charge. In fact, to my knowledge, in spite of the stated warranty from Deon Corp., there...

Perry, Indeed…the BR schools given throughout the country appear to be successful. Many of the new shooters that attended prior benchrest schools in our region are now dues paying members in both IBS and NBRSA, and are now active shooters in a variety of high accuracy shooting disciplines. I...

We still have room for a few more students at the Autumn 2008 benchrest school. History shows that the weather is usually good at this time of year (rare in these parts!), so we should all have a good time on Sunday at the range. No need to bring a rifle if you don’t have one, since we will...