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Wilbur, probably has to do with the if it costs more it has to be better" thing. I've used 205's for years and can't tell the difference between 205's and 205M's. Remember when a scope company came out with a question to benchrest shooters to see if they would be willing to pay around a...

Jackie, I think you’d have been right at home at Holton shooting at Tomball as much as you do. We started with the LV 200 in the morning after about a 2.5 hour delay for the fog to burn off and it had a lot of boiling mirage. The crosshair would bounce up and down on the sight picture for about...

Any particular reason to bore at slow speed? I use the Circle Industries 1/4" boring bar or Hertel or Kennametal replacement with the triangle carbide inserts and bore at about 1200 rpm when pre-boring chambers.

My LeBlond has a 10" four jaw chuck and it stays on the lathe. Talk about heavy. The 8" three jaw that came with the lathe is pretty worn and was adjust "true" by tapping on the chuck jaw at the machine shop where I bought the lathe when it went out of business. A 15x54 lathe is just a little...

With a lot of miscellaneous stuff you make in a lathe, it doesn't make any difference whether its running dead true in a 3 jaw chuck or not where it's being held. Once you start making cuts on it, that part is running true at the cuts especially when the part of the piece that is held in the...

Wow, quite an agg. I hope it holds up through the records committee. Getting close to knocking on a zero agg.

I talked to Larry this week. He had a couple of stents put in and is doing well. He will find out from the doctor when he goes back whether they need to do any more. When they did the stents there was an artery that they couldn't get to because of a reaction to the initial medicine and they...

If you do the math on what Pam measured Charles’ targets at Midland and what the records committee did, she was right at .006 per target smaller than what the records committee measured. That’s a pretty good job of measuring in my book. Especially on the current plasticized targets that don’t...

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...