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    Bedding Aluminum Stocks

    Awhile back I started hearing about, and taking some interest in the .338 Lapua. The rifle I like right now is the Savage 110BA. I'm a LH shooter, and Savage is now offering that model in LH, so it has peaked my interest. One of the things I haven't been able to find out about in the literature...
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    308 blr

    Bamadawg... No problem partner.... Give it a whirl, and Good Luck with it.....:)
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    308 blr

    Bamadawg... I load Sierra 175's (BTHP) for my .308 using neck sizing only, and I always follow up the seating with a slight crimp. There's no crimp ring on that particular bullet, but using the Lee factory crimp applies a taper crimp opposed to a roll crimp, and it works out good for me. If...
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    Any Mainers?

    Born & Raised a "County" boy. Now living on the coast
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    Cleaning brass - inside case still dirty??

    I didn't and haven't read all the replies to the original question, and maybe someone has already brought up this solution. If not, one of the best cleaning systems I have really ever seen is Stainless Steel Media. I started using this system about a year ago, utilizing Thumler's Tumbler, a...
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    308 blr

    Depending on what type of resizing you're doing, whether it full length of just neck resizing, one of the manufacturers recommendations (Lee, to be precise) is that when using Lee's Collet Neck Sizer, that it will only resize the neck .001 smaller than the diameter of the bullet (giving you .001...
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    Noob saying "Hello"

    Hey Everyone... Just wanted to say "Hi", and Thanks for letting me part of your forum. I'm a former Arizonan, now living in the extreme northeast, where the air is fresh, and the water is clean. Being a noob, I'm sure to have lots of questions, but hope I can answer some too. I'm looking...
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