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I've mounted several 42mm Leupold's on Tikkas with Low rings - Talley and DNZ. I use mostly Talley, but both are fine. CDS is awesome. Shoot a range and verify your actual drops before getting the free dial cut, if you plan on shooting past 500yd or so. Within 500 just give Leupold the...

I went with an X-Caliber. The chamber is nicely done and it shoots better than me (I average 0.4-0.5MOA for 5-shot groups from bipod/rear bag prone). Almost no copper, too. I only clean every 200rd or so and it's just to get carbon out. I don't think you can go wrong. All of those makers are...

Alaska Hunting, Admiralty Island Brown Bear Hunting, Mountain Goat Hunts, Alaska Hunting Guides Really? A 250gr Partition in a .338 mag of some kind isn't good bear medicine? Or even the old-school but monster 220gr Partition .30 cal in a 300 WSM/Win Mag/RUM? I've had great luck loading 7mm...

30 Nosler. Short enough to load heavy, high-BC bullets way out there, and efficient for such a big round. 300 Norma Mag is even nicer... except you'd need a new bolt face, which is a pain for rather minimal gains.

FYI: Weaver 2.8-10x44 40/44 Rifle Scope DEMO-A

Sold.

Sale pending to MOD7NUT.

My 3-18 has been perfect. I use the CDS dial, and the drop on that works out exactly the same as my ballistics calculator, and the same as the scope I had on that gun before, so I suspect the clicks are correct.

For Sale: a lightly-used Swaro 6-24x50. This has the TDS reticle, and AO. It was mounted exactly one, by none other than Jim Borden. It has seen less than 100 rounds of 300 WSM in its life. There was a little mis-communication between Jim and my father-in-law about what exactly "long-range"...

My issue is a tight bolt closing. Then, a nasty tight bolt when opening, even when a round with slightly more aggressively sized brass and the same load opens cleanly with no pressure signs.

It's certainly not universal, but sometimes high-pressure rounds have issues feeding smoothly if not resized fully. This only happens in some of my guns, but it's really bad on my Savage 300 WSM. Am I perhaps bandaiding the real issue?

For low pressure rounds like .308: Run dirty brass through a Lee Collet die and reprime in the same step. Done. The Collet Die produces so little neck growth I can ignore it for many reloadings. I have no problem getting 0.5 MOA with dropping un-weighed charges and flying through brass prep...

A Borden action will be better than a blueprinted Remmy, probably for less total money. Give Jim a call and talk guns - I promise you'll be impressed about his knowledge and dedication to quality. (570) 965-2505

What's long-range for you anyway? In 300 WSM I haven't found a reason to switch to 200gr - mine likes 168gr BTs and 165gr AB, which are ballisticaly superior to 500-600yd anyway. My model 16 take a pretty frickin' long round in the stock box. Without going VLD I can't imagine not getting...

That seems like a pretty complicated solution to a simple problem. Primers aren't scarce like they were a while ago: Remington Large Rifle Primers #9-1/2 Box of 1000 (10 Trays of 100) - MidwayUSA Stock up for way less than buying a bunch of brass and necking it down. I doubt you'll even have...