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Over the years I had the pleasure of several conversations with Chet. He was a fine fellow, good company. I will miss him.

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I am sorry to hear this. My condolences to his family.

My primary benchrest rifle's butt has a 5/8" flat on its bottom, and I can tell you that with the bag that I use, an old Edgewood with three stitches and relatively short cordura ears, the fit is perfect...but that was not always the case. Let me explain. A friend has recently taken up 1K...

Very nice! Thanks. Perhaps you could list some of the more common pitch diameters, not that it would change the weight much. Also, I noticed that you work from bore diameter. Do you really mean the top of the land diameter or the groove diameter, again, not that it would matter much?

If I had that sort of variation from any bullet maker, factory or boutique, I would demand a refund, or replacement. That is totally unacceptable.

What cartridge, powder, bullet and neck tension? Are you equipped to measure peak seating force? How do you prep the insides of your case necks?

Serious rimfire benchrest shooters have a huge number of options for what they can hang off of the fronts of their barrels and slide or clamp on behind it. My feeling is that many can afford to try many things and stick with what works, less of an engineering exercise than cut and try.

As I understand it, Sierra passes its bullets through an additional die that irons out the pressure ring. They do this to make there bullets function better in automatic loading machines. This information was from a long time back, so you might want to ask them if it is still the case. Using my...

Asking for a friend running a panda in a TM McMillan stock. Thanks.

Al, Besides the depth of the shell holder (top to where the case rests), the other thing that limits the reach of a die is the chamfer/slash bevel that most dies that I am aware of have. If one makes a ring die that has the absolute minumum chamfer the die can reach lower than a standard die...

I have two types of ring dies, one that has a pusher so that the case passes through the sizing part, and the other that works with a standard shell holder. Even the latter can have more reach because you do not risk too much shoulder bump if you cut down the top of the shell holder, and/or take...

On the back end of the chamber dimension thing, there needs to be some clearance over the diameter of new unfired brass. You can have a chamber that takes new brass just fine, but you will have issues if it is too close to unfired brass. This is not conjecture. In the PPC world it is a lesson...

He dropped his land line. His current cell number is (432) 553-4692

On this and other accuracy forums I would guess that all that most shooter/reloaders use a manual for is a safe starting load to begin a pressure test with. Personally, the first thing that I do with a new powder is to do a one shot per load pressure investigation, with bullets a little longer...

A while back I looked everywhere on the internet for Cecil Tucker's phone number and the one that came up did not work. Today I read a post on this site, by Gene Beggs that gave a number that works. It seems that he got rid of his old home phone in favor of a cell phone. Here is that number...

Hint: "Rifle Accuracy Facts"

If you click on the link, and scroll down a bit, you will see a couple of pictures of the correct tools for removing a stubborn factory barrel from a Remington action. Even with these tools, there can be problems. A friend has learned to use a parting tool on the lug, splitting it, for the worst...

Thanks Randy. I enjoyed our conversation. Boyd