Recent content by Rinky

Haha that's what I named my 300 norma a few years ago. Looks nice. I'm pretty sure I recognize your Norma too.

I have a Remington 700 sendero in 7mm rem mag that I have had great success with since 2009. It loves berger 168vlds over h4831sc and 180 hybrids over h4831sc and h1000. Last fall I took it out before deer season and was grouping moa or better out to 925yds on steel. The only work ever done to...

Buddy of mine had the exact same problem. Factory ammo, brand new rifle, first range trip and bolt closing was tough. His was a 22-250. Tried 3 different types of ammo at Scheels after never firing it. That's where he got it the week before. The same ammo that wouldnt fit at the range didnt have...

Lol. Never heard of them. Or just call berger...

Or maybe consider they have an incredible reputation for a reason before bashing them as being garbage. Automation can do some pretty jacked up things to soft metals in a hurry... Obviously this guy has had bad luck not once, not twice, but 3 times. You'd have thought after over 100$ into...

I have been using a set of Whidden dies for my 300NM. Very high quality dies but pretty expensive too.

This is exactly my reasoning. I've used the MS for 4 or 5 years now and its been great. But its an added variable thats extremely difficult to quantify. I want NOTHING touching my barrel besides barrel and a can. That said... I still have the magnetospeed and havent bought a lab radar yet cuz of...

Probably because Sig Sauer quality control is atrocious.

Looks like a good plan to me. Youre essentially building a 26" 30-06 (slightly more energy) but with a much shorter over all rifle length. I did the same thing with my 7mm rem mag. Have a TBAC ultra 9. Chopped my sendero down to 18" because of not being able to get a rifle over 5ft long in and...

Did you ever get a chance to shoot an elk? I was looking at using the 162s in my 7mmrm on elk in montana too!

I was using factory ammo from hornady. Not a reload. In my situation it makes more sense but to fail at the same point is why I brought it up.

Just so everyone is aware, my case failed from a factory box of 243 ammo in a 243 Ackley chamber after 1 firing in the exact same spot the OP had issues with at 5 firings. Seems too coincidental to ignore to me. Here's 1 case next to the other. Same box of ammo.

Can't really call it a bad batch when it's across multiple calibers and years of manufacture... it's just bad QC all the way around and that's why the reputation and inside jokes exist. Junk.

Federal brass that bad?

Finally getting around to read this and have an interesting thing I learned from it Id like to share. I recently bought a box of Hornady 243win 58gr. Superformance varmint ammo from Scheels. The rifle is a 243 Ackley improved. The other day I had a piece of brass have this same failure mark...