Recent content by synfinatic

Voere Shikar in .308. Because reasons, I bought it from my grandfather when I was younger and didn't know much. Anyways... Stuart Otteson had this to say about it in his book, The Bolt Action Vol II: "More than any other single factor, difficult bolt operation proved the undoing of the...

Used it in my 6.5CM when H4350 was unobtainium. Bought 2x8# jugs at the same time. Interestingly one jug seems about 0.8gr faster than the other (44.0 vs 44.8gr under a 147ELDM) so some questions about consistency. Can't complain about accuracy as I've been able to reliably hit 1mi plate with...

Just wanted to update that I finally went out out to the not-so-local range (3hr drive each way for me). Just shot the fire form loads (77gr of H1K as Rich recommended) and gotta say, I was impressed with the accuracy considering zero load development. Was shooting 1moa @ 1000yds after doing...

Thanks Rich!

Just so I'm on the same page, but you're saying reduce the load an additional 5% below the starting load for 300PRC? I don't really have anything suitable for magnum cartridges faster than H1000.

Okay, finally got my 30SM built! Only took 10 months of waiting for my action and barrel. First time I've ever had to fire form brass (bought my brass from Rich) so I've got a few dumb questions: I know some people are just buying factory 300PRC ammo and getting brass that way, so I assume I...

Sadly the custom shop has been closed for a while now: https://www.leupold.com/custom-shop

I assume you mean 2.575 trim? Trimming with 0.0001" accuracy is uhm... hard?

TL;DR: Cleaning my grandfather's (now mine) old German mfg Voere Shikar. Poor thing was super dirty and I guess had a hard life. Don't think the bolt was ever torn down and cleaned properly. Anyways, the firing pin was bent and that seems to have put some pressure on the thin tab in the...

Makes sense. The 300PRC and 375Ruger are the same case holder (CH-375RUG).

I'm having nothing but problems with my Forster case trimmer due to the pilot. Thinking of switching to the L.E. Wilson case trimmer. Can I use the 300PRC case holder with the 30SM or ???

Been looking to build a new ELR rifle on a ARC Coup De Grâce LA. Been hemming and hawing between .308 and 7mm in various chamberings and then came across 28SM which on paper seems to be a real winner with a Berger 180 or perhaps 190 Atip. Since I'm looking at building an ELR rather than...

@BPollard "Midwest Powders" is another one of those scam sites. One way you tell is they push payment via Zelle, Venmo, CashApp, PayPal (you'll later find out it's friends & family) or crypto. The reason for this and not supporting credit card is because when they steal your money and don't...