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Great shooting Jack-O! Markie was hot on your heels! How many different barrels and bullets did you try before figuring it out this time!?!? At least Happy Howy doesn't do that!!! I'm sorry I had to miss the match this year. I'm glad they had a decent turnout. I miss going to Kane not...

Hot clothes iron Use an old clothes iron (not your wife's, or you might end up in the dog house) on top of the scope base. It's easiest to have a barrel installed in the action so you can grip the whole rifle solidly in a barrel vise - which makes it easier to hold the rifle level and firmly...

UNL/HV on Consecutive Days I would like to see UNL and HV held as complete aggregates on back-to-back days so I can shoot one or both complete grand aggregates, since I would usually rather not shoot the entire National match. Although I'm certainly not offended over the current course of...

Search the archives If you use the search feature on this forum for "sizing" and "click", you will get a lot of detailed information on this problem. Read posts #33, 53 and 62 in this thread: http://benchrest.com/showthread.php?92304-The-quot-click-quot-when-extracting-a-case

Superior Accuracy One of the most incredibly accurate rifles I’ve ever shot was a Hunter Class, Hart barreled 30x47 HBR using BIB bullets. Unfortunately the guy that owned the rifle died several years ago, and I don’t remember what twist barrel (probably a 1-15”, but I’m not sure) I put on...

Big aggs... 1. Larry Costa .2563 2. Bob Scarbrough Jr. .2600 3. Milt Craven .2659 4. Mark Engle .2772 5. Jeff Summers .2778 6. Gene Bukys .2789 7. Bill Greene .2806 8. Wayne Campbell .2833 9. Ron Hoehn .2847 10. Johan Von Reenen .2851 11. Joe Hynes .2877 12. Bill Goad .2906 13. Tony...

Aged brass doughnuts (that doesn't sound appetizing!) I never thought of checking my brass after repeated firings for a doughnut formation from brass flow and sizing. I cut my necks thin enough to allow for a bullet to pass through the fired case neck with no resistance. But with my freebore...

No fire forming is required before neck turning with my method mentioned above. Size with setback, expand, turn (I do it in one cut) then fire form. Greg Walley Kelbly's Inc.

Insufficient shoulder setback On new 220 Russian brass, set the shoulder back 0.015" with an appropriate FL sizing die (I use a 220 Russian FL sizer), then expand with the neck turning expander mandrel. This will make the neck-shoulder junction (which moves forward after fire forming) into a...

Neck sizing "small shoulder" cartridges One interesting detail about neck sizing - when using cartridges with small shoulders, meaning the ratio of the body to neck size is close (e.g. 222 and 223 Rem), one can often get away with neck sizing only and the brass won’t stick in the chamber. This...

Full-Length Resizing Instructions Sticking brass after multiple reloadings is the most common problem in the precision shooting discipline. The following are the instructions I send to our customers when they have this problem: A clarification on the procedure for correct shoulder setback...

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Get rid of it immediately! If you smell an acrid pungent odor (not a sweet ethereal odor or odor similar to paint solvent), the powder is decomposing and releasing NOx gases - possibly combining with moisture, forming nitric acid. It is dangerous/toxic and should be disposed of properly.

A logical fallacy Not true. These primers leaked because they were defective. The propellant charge wasn't excessive, and the primer pockets were tight. The same exact cartridge cases with different primers and hotter loads (with the same lot of propellant) did not leak. Greg Walley...

Ron - I never forget watching you shoot those groups through my spotting scope. After the match I immediately purchased some of those bullets. What a fool I was to buy only a few boxes. In my rail-gun with a Shilen 1.350" barrel, those bullets would easily shoot low to mid .1xx at 200 YARDS...

So Long Bud I had a lot of interesting conversations with Bud over the years. It was a pleasure watching him shoot so well at Fairchance last year. He will be missed.

Freebore diameter experiment Interesting discussion. I'm not sure how the freebore diameter relates to accuracy, but I suspect that a little larger is better than a little smaller. For example, when testing my 6.5mm wildcat, I found that I got smaller velocity spread with a 0.2648" than with...

I’m not talking about that either. What I’m measuring is the freebore straight section and also the leade cut by the reamer. I respectfully disagree with you. The chamber roundness and its axial relation to the shoulder of the tenon and the threads are important for several reasons…mainly a...

I edited my miscalculation in the above post. That particular indicator reads without error with the stylus in that position. I was thinking of another indicator in my collection. My understanding is that TIR is one-half of the value of the total movement of the stylus around the circumference...

Very good Chet. I know that you weren’t inferring anything – and my statement wasn’t rhetorical just to question your experience. I’m only wondering how these chambers can become so “whopperjawed”. If the machining setup and the features of the imperfect bore are dealt with appropriately, one...