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Why the change in size? Please excuse me if this has already been asked, but has anyone asked why the change in kernel size with the new production 8208? It seems odd to me that there was such a change after all the favorable reports on the original production unless it is a quality control...

I just went to TitanTV.com to check it out and there it was! Starting Jan 1st, Have Gun Will Travel. Thanks for the heads up. Regards, Rick

Most of the sales of the hd/ed/florite lens spotting scopes are to birders who are willing to pay the premium for improved color rendition. I looked through the Kowa scopes side by side a few years ago and the differences were very subtle when trying to read mirage or spot a shot. I concluded...

German, Several ballisticians with whom I have spoken apply a "rule of thumb" for most cartridges when calculating recoil. In addition to that of the bullet they calculate 1 1/2 times the muzzle velocity of the bullet into the same equation using the mass of the powder charge. Their experience...

Have you considered Kowa? The Kowa 821 spotting scopes with the 25x long eye relief (LER) eye pieces are quite popular in across the course and silhouette shooting. The eye piece has enough relief to see the entire field of view with shooting glasses on. (Many high quality optics are a bit...

Try this... If you do use water, I would suggest adding a little bit of dish washing detergent to it. It reduces the surface tension so that you do not get the "bubble" (meniscus) at the case mouth which is both inaccurate and somewhat inconsistent. As for technique, the eye dropper suggestion...

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Try this... I will join the others in recommending that you try H4350. You will not be chasing zeros as much as with the Vit. powder.

It was out about 12 hours when I checked. They did respond to an email, but never answered my question about whether they were hacked and data compromised.

Is that like when the engineer asks for 1/2" holes in 3/8" stock? :rolleyes:

I seem to recall an article (quite a few years ago) in which someone chronographed BBs fired out of a smooth bore barrel using only the primer to propel them. He was looking for the lowest standard deviation. It made me wonder if the powder charges of small capacity cases are more subject to the...

I have not tried the Burris rings in a number of years. The ones I did try wound up in the trash. They had terrible machine work on the part that was supposed to mount on the Weaver rail and would not "stay put". Are the recent ones better machined? About the hood scope checker, a friend was...

Yes Al, I know that no less an authority than Walt Berger, with whom I have spoken about it, says VLD bullets must be jammed to achieve their full accuracy potential. That said, in my experience, using my reamers, with the powders I used, jumping bullets such as the 142 gr SMK, 141 gr...

Try this... I normally seat the heavier bullets about 0.010" off the lands in my 6.5-08s. My experience has been that "jamming" them in the lands usually results in pressure signs before I get to the velocity window I am interested in. Not "jamming" the bullet also means that you can extract a...

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Nat, Wyatt mags are useful (I've had them on several rifles and recommend them), especially with VLD bullets, but still do not get the bottom of the bearing surface of most of the heavier 6.5mm bullets above the neck/shoulder junction of .260 Rem brass. Jerry Stiller offers them with his...

The SAAMI spec .260 Rem chambers have a very short throat so that a loaded round will fit into a Remington 700 short action magazine (nominally 2.800 inches) and still be somewhere close to the lands. That is just the way it is. It may not be "optimal", but the .260 Rem is capable of excellent...

7mm Shehane? Has anyone tried it? (.284 Win with the taper taken out, but shoulder left alone.) http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/284-shehane-284-improved-for-long-range/

Thanks, Al. I guess the short answer is that 60K (+) PSI overcomes whatever small "misalignment" there may be in the chamber. (I note that you used the expression "SLAPPP them out" several times.) The late T.J. Jackson used to bore the inside of 6 BR cases as a part of his rather extensive...

I think I understand why you want the area above the (solid) case head to expand, but I am not sure that I understand just why the result should tell you anything. Unless there is a very tight "fitted neck" to the case it is almost certain to be laying down in the chamber and so even a "perfect"...