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Just to let everyone know, there will be full rotation of benches at the VFS/HTR 200/300 Long Range Nationals that will be held September 1st & 2nd at Walker County Benchrest in Huntsville, Texas. This is required by NBRSA rules for all National events. The range is not responsible to provide...

Congratulations to Charles Huckeba for his new Sporter class 100 aggregate NBRSA world record that the records committee officially scored as a .1449". This eclipses the previous record of .1573" held by Dick Katchmar from April 14, 1985. Charles definitely had a handle on the conditions and...

It doesn’t look like it was trigger pulling conditions. Or maybe it was, pull the trigger and wonder where the bullet was going to go.

There is also an UL match at Holton, Michigan on Labor day weekend tied in with the Eastern Regionals. I imagine that there will be a lot of people there using that match to tune up for the Nationals that is also being shot there a little over a week later.

I had a barrel come into the shop that was a Hart barrel that the customer who sent it thought was a 1.350 diameter 6mm barrel. When I pin gaged it, it was a .22 barrel. The barrel had a A prefix on the serial number. This was back before Michelle passed away and when I asked her when the...

I’ve shot both 11 degree and flat crowns with my 6 PPC benchrest rifles. I haven’t seen it makes any difference what shape the crown is as long as it’s burr free as to whether the rifle is accurate. A poor job of crowning though will make a barrel not shoot. The flat crown with a sharp edge at...

Crowning a barrel needs to be done in a lathe. Anything you do with hand tools as far as crowning a barrel is just asking for trouble.

Jackie, sounds like the best prognosis that you could have under the circumstances. Glad to hear you are doing as well as you are. Being an old man is relative. I’ve always considered that someone who is old as being someone who is 20 years older than you are at the time. I guess when we run out...

Pete, think he’s saying if the barrel diameter was as small as 1.050”, you’d have to use a barrel nut. Not sure what the minimum shoulder diameter would be, but I’ve turned down barrels to 1.185 routinely to get a flat area for the chuck or set screws if using a cat head instead of a chuck for 6...

Congratulations, Eddie. Do I hear a proud Pappa there?

I use a lot of Harrell’s Precision brakes. They make two types with holes all around the brake or their tactical with side ports. $35 to 45 for the brakes. They do have to have the center hole bored out after it’s in place to .020 over bullet diameter

That's so on a Remington and was why back in the 80's when Bob Brackney wrote his article about bushing the bolt face for a PPC and installing a Sako extractor in Rifle magazine that he recommended cutting back the bolt nose for a .125" deep bolt face and then setting up the bolt nose to barrel...

The best results that I’ve seen accuracy wise is to ream the 700 action with a long piloted reamer opening up the raceway to whatever diameter (I use a.705” reamer) you want and then fit a tight after market bolt to the action. The problem with this though is by the time you go to this much...

Lee, I’m not saying one way is better or worse than another. I just haven’t seen that it makes a difference which method that is used as to how the barrels shoots when we are done between the way I use and yours. I think a lot of what we do is in our heads. I think as long as the freebore is...

The weekend of the Lubbock match on Sept. 29-30 is a Texas Tech football home game weekend. The Lubbock motels have jacked their prices up to $300 per night. If you are planning on making this match check with the Best Western in Brownfield which is about 30 minutes from the range. Nightly costs...

And there was no cell phone service at the Whittington Center. I'm not sure whether Bud is in the flip phone era or the smart phone era. Not sure that we all wouldn't be better off to go back to flip phones with limited internet. Bud and Connie are headed back home and I'm sure he'll answer...

I may not be getting something here, but the only thing I’d do with a Pacific bolt is to either face off the lugs on the bolt or the receiver lugs to allow the one piece Pacific bolt to just go in and close. The more you take off the lugs past that just reduces the amount of primary extraction...

To true the bolt face or lugs in the lathe, you have to make sure that the bolt body is running true in the lathe. I've seen some jigs made for truing bolt faces, that it's beyond me how you tell whether the bolt is running true in the fixture. After years of threading bolt plugs to fit 700's...

This is what I came up with years ago. Pacific later started making a similar jig. I presently use the Pacific jig as it is easier and quicker to use than the one that I made. The Pacific jig is bored to fit the bolt diameter and sets the bolt body at the correct angle. Set up for threading...