Recent content by 9.3davison

A friend of mine reloads and he owned a cheap set of digital calipers and did not realize they were very inconsistent. When seating bullets, he assumed his seating die was faulty and adjusted the seat die for every round in that group of hand loads. Upon firing the rifle, one of the rounds...

I would look for a Tikka T3X in 7mm-08 (22” barrel) and look for a T3X compact stock (I have one you can have), and load 110 Gr Barnes TTSX. If you are not a handloader, 120 grain factory loads will be light recoiling. And if it is still too much recoil, Spearhead machine in Ontario make an...

All the unsavoury plastic bits are upgradable to aluminum, stainless, or even titanium as time/money are available. And they are easy enough to swap out.

Welcome from Alberta Canada!

Or sell it as a private deal and let the buyer know the barrel is wrecked

Bought my daughter a Tikka T3X stainless in 7-08, loaded with 140 grain Woodleigh PPSN it shoots 1/2” groups at 100 meters. 2 days later she got her first moose ever!

I’d say it’s the ammo. I bought some Nosler ammo a few years ago for my son’s 243 and had the same issue. He had fired lots of different hand loads and different factory loads (Winchester, Federal, Remington) and none of those were hard to chamber or showed pressure signs. We just pulled them...

Thank you for the replies. I think I will get ahold of Nosler. I did not buy direct from Nosler, and I paid full price. I would switch to another manufacturer but I don’t know of anyone else making 27 brass yet.

Hey all, has anyone else experienced substandard quality with Nosler brass? I picked up some 27 Nosler brass the other day and upon inspection, I found vertical dents in the shoulder of several pieces. I also noticed considerable “flash” inside the case around the flash hole. I was under the...

I think it’s the same all across Canada, slow powders and heavy 6.5 bullets are scarce. I think with N568 you should get better case fill, less energy per gram/grain than the 565 or 570 (according to Vihtavuori’s site).

223 6.5 Dakota 9.3 Davison 416 Rigby

Really?! There’s Albertans that don’t know it!

So, I just spoke with a lovely gentleman at the Sweetgrass border crossing, and he said that for me tor send brass into the US we would need an import permit, even if I give it to you

Small town called Fort Assiniboine. 100 miles NW of Edmonton