Turned a lotta necks

goodgrouper said:
I should also mention that Butch Fjoser heard about my struggles the first couple of days at the Nationals, and he donated one of his barrels to me to see if that would help. I offered to pay for it because I was desperate to try anything, but he wouldn't take a penny. What a guy that Butch!:cool: I'm forever in his debt too just like Mike's.
Anyhow, a new barrel didn't fix the bad groups. But when I had Mike's parts AND the new barrel together, it worked marvelously. After the Nationals were over and my action parts were back in my gun, the sweet barrel wouldn't shoot five bullets touching again. So I wrangled up some new parts and fixed others like how Mike showed me, and wallah, the gun started shooting again. The very next match, I shot a teen agg at 200 yards and won the 2 gun, the LV grand, the LV200. So I'd say that's pretty proof positive that your action makes a world of difference!
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I love stories with happy endings!

You'd think firing pin function would not have an ill effect on a rigidly seated gun. Its easy to see where "lock time, etc" would effect a gun held offhand though.

Anyhoo, thanks for the info...bet you get a lot of PM's about this.

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I have long used this same method to turn my necks. I turn a new mandrel for each batch. In addition, if the head of the case runs out sigbnificantly, I'll go ahead and turn it but will separate those cases. Seems they will never quite straighten out.
With Lapua 6BR brass and Lapua 308 brass, only about 3% will run out enough to notice. My Lapua 6.5x47 brass, on the other hand, runs about 20%. Federal brass is better than most. Remington brass worse. In my best 6.5x55, Remington brass seemed mostly crooked so I quit culling them and just turned the batch and used it. The best score I shot with that rifle used that brass. Go figure. Regards, Bill.
 
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