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I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how my ballistic software ("Shooter") can predict that I need U5.6 for my 308 shooting 168grain Sierra @ 600 yards when it doesn't ask if the rail the scope is mounted on is flat or if it has a 20 MOA tilt. If you could enlighten me I would...

Is it possible to have a switch bolt set up on a 700 BDL. I have a lot of time and effort on my 700 VS for .223 and I want to use the same platform (stock, bedded action, scope, trigger etc.) to shoot .308. And I'm tired of buying rifles that stack up like cord wood in my gun safes. In...

The Stl BR Club is hosting the first half of the four gun Mississippi Valley match this coming April 8th and 9th. This is first half of the event and both Saturday and Sunday will be shot at 100 Yards. They say matches are won at 200 yards so you could surmise that the April 8th, 9th half of...

Sigh........

The rifle is a Remington VLS 700 BDL manufactured around 1998, Jewell trigger and glass bedded. Before I have a reamer cut I need to send JGS a dummy round. For that I need to choose: - a starting bullet (Berger 80, 80.5, 82 or 90). - neck diameter, what the brass neck should be turned...

Gotta throw in a pitch for the St Louis Benchrest Club's East West Shoot June 24/25. 5 hours and 42 minutes from Ft Wayne to St Louis. Flat as butter on hot bread. You don't need flags that adjust from 2' to 10'. Its a terrific 60 bench range with a spacious loading facility. And if I...

Darn if I didn’t get some good news today. The St Louis Bench Rest Club sent out their match schedule for 2017 late last week and unless my eyes fooled me, I see that we added a rimfire version to our Thursday F Class competition. For me this is real exciting because I want to sample as many...

One more question.. If I could ask one more question it would be about bipods. People are tellin me that there are a number of options that are out there. I intend to shoot from a bench so that has it's own handicaps for a bipod.

Thanks! That'll get my shopping cart started. Sort of thought that Berger would come up in the conversation and having Varget as a starting point will get things moving. I just needed a first door to go through. This ought to be fun. I'm sure that an old 308 isn't as exciting as some of the...

I spend my time shooting short range Bench Rest competition but I would like to start up a side interest in F class. Set aside the minutia about the ultimate cartridge and assume that I'll be shooting a 308. The questions are specific to F class, 308 and are pretty simple: 1) Could you...

The teardown Well this has been interesting. With some help from Wayne and Butch this is what developed. To begin you have to pull the top off the base. With a 1/8" allen you remove the cap head screw and that allows the top to come off the track. Once you have the top off you can remove...

I have a Farley that I bought around 2002/2003 that I need to disassemble, clean, upgrade and reassemble. I’ve done the advanced search and saw the response that Butch gives to get most of the above done. But I would appreciate it if someone could give me advice on the first couple steps on...

Thanks to all. I'm wringing out the last details on the PTG now. Their web site calls it a replacement for a "stainless" Remington 700. But after talking to Heather at PTG I was told it was for BDL's post 1964 which is what this action is. I kind of think Remington changed out the tenured...

The PTG option and the Savage conversion has my head spinning. I bind quickly with my rifles and I have a soft spot in my heart for the original BDL actions. This is a terrific prairie dog rifle chambered with a Shilen 223 AI. So selling it off isn't in my heart. Selling is just not...

Hey guy's, I'm looking for a rifle to shoot in VFS and Hunter class. I have a little used BDL Varmint .223 from the late 90's in the gun safe. Could a .223 bolt face be opened up to .308? Thanks, Bill.

Bolt face .223 versus .308. Guy's I'm looking to have a rifle that could be shot in VFS and Hunter class. I've got a solid little used 700 BDL .223 Varmint heavy barreled rifle from the late 90's in the safe. Could the bolt face of a .223 be opened up to a .308 bolt face? Thanks.

I had to scratch at the last minute but the weather was excellent. Sunshine from 8 till dusk. Light to no wind for the first relay first match then modest throughout the day. Temps got into the upper 80's this afternoon. Sunday first relay / first match should be shot in a calm. I would...

For about 9 years I was away herding a small business and this kept me away from BR and the St Louis Benchrest club. I'm now in the process of transitioning the business to its new owner and starting to gather my benchrest gear to get back to shooting again. As I was pulling things together...