Recent content by Dan swainston

Bergers can be temperamental with seating depths. Check the lans. Just worked on a christen arm rifle an it had two lans were cut all into the throat. It will throw your bullets. You may have to re bed the barrel that helps. Went through 4 powders and two bullets til I found one that works.

Bought three of them. Surprised how clear they are for the money. Put one on a. 300 weatherby out to 1,0000 yards. Shoots fine not a pst gen Ii but good for the money. 34mm tube has advantages. The zero stop will work but not as robust as the pst gen II

Thank you all very much I bought the hornady latest edition and it lists maximum load at 65.2 for RL23 at 3,000 fps will work up and past that point thanks for the inform

I have several pounds of rl23 and ran out of rl22 loading 7 rem mag 162 grain eldx bullets federal 215 primers. Norma brass. Any comparison on min max loads my Hornady book is a couple of years old and doesn’t list rl 23. it is more temperature stable Th rl22 just trying to work up ladde...

I feel your pain received a 30 nosler Christensen arms traverse. Would not group to tighter than 2” some times 4”. tried several powders. peterson brass. even tried coupld of bullets. took it to a gun smith. bedding was sub par stock would colaspe and touch the barrel on down hill shots...

Who is the manufacturers for the 6.5 prc

Yes very impressed on how the 6.5 shoots out to 1000 But very disappointed on the teasing emails. Need brass for two more rifles

Same Norma cases 90 % hornady Thanks for your solid recommendations

Just haven’t been able to find any

I am loading RL 23 with Hornady 140 grain eld-m and Berger 140 grain vld Bullets Norma brass and federal match lr primers. Following the Hornady reloading manual. shooting .19” groups but velocities are not even close. 24” barrel here are the results from the labradar RL 23 grains FPS...

The distance of the three that would not expand was 654 yards approx. The kill shot was approx 359 yards. 225 grn ttsx shooting IMR 4350 at 2800 fps I am having a hard time finding bullets. I had some ELDX 230 grains that I could not get them to group before. Changed to H-4350 move it...

Is there a brand you recommend Also I had one pencil through the neck and one through the lung. The kill shot was behind one shoulder and then anchored in the shoulder on the far side. Free hand while he was running at 325 yards. These are the two that were recovered the other two passed...

Just killed a nice 340“ Bull in Idaho but I had a couple of bullets that pencil holed my Bull. I had to take a shoulder shot to take him down. The Barnes had performed good last year on my moose went through both shoulders and spined him. What is the recommended bullet that has a high bc...