Recent content by mikepos

Sounds like a job for 45-70. Slow bullet won't take much meat but the diameter acts like a mushroomed bullet already and penetration will pass through at any angle

I was doing hundreds of cases and going fast. With the rcbs swagger you have to hold the case up in the die when raising the press piston... it’s faster to use a finger under the case and pull it out just as the piston comes up with the pocket swagger in it... got a good rhythm going until I...

I've resized hundreds of IVI and LC cases without issue in a Hornady LnL, never had a stuck case. Wet tumbled, sprayed with One Shot, pockets swaged with RCBS swager. I do know none of it was from full auto. Only problem I had was when swaging, photo a couple months after the incident

Tikka 300WM has a 1:11 twist rate, I have one. And I'm going to try this load, currently using H1000 and Nosler Partitions and getting 1 1/2" groups :-( Same bullets in my Sako A7RTpro, same rate if twist, I get sub MOA with IMR4350.. havent' tried that powder in the 300 yet

Could be the combo of 1:11 and 300 pressures, but My Sako A7RTpro 30-06 and a buddie's Tikka 30-06 both shoot sub MOA with the SGK and NP 180s. Also my 308 CTR shoots 175SMKs 1/2MOA. All have the same 1:11

I'm finding the same thing with my 300WM, both handloads and reloads. The barrel gets really hot really fast for sure, I only shoot 3 rounds each group and let it cool a few minutes between groups. Still only getting 1.5-2" groups, my only Tikka that shoots over 1" (100m). I'm loading H1000...

150m is what a lot of manufacturers use fir a setting when the parallax isn’t adjustable, kind of a happy do-all setting

Nice, does that work with the version one (cheaper) magnetospeed?

I have the varmint in 223 and the CTR in 308. The varmint is not very carry-able if that’s important. It shoots under .5 Mia at 300m but I haven’t tried it further yet. I just got the ctr last fall but haven’t got it much below 1moa at 100! I’m just starting to look for a load, hunter67wa...

I’ve read the vx6 and 5 are different design than the lower lines and don’t have the same problems. Is this correct in anyone’s experience?