Recent content by Wachsmann

Man the other day I was going through a worksheet for a stainless fluted and cryogenic treatment with muzzle threaded and the price is about the same as a carbon fiber barrel. Seem like you minus well get the carbon fiber barrel instead and save some weight. By the time I was done with add on I...

I got the barrel off today and it came off pretty easy once I got the right shims for the wrench. So I wonder about the whole precision barrel nut a recoil lug thing. My gun shot really well much better than any other factory gun I owned except for my sendero which shot about the same. I do hand...

Also I need to find the rest of my barrel removal kit. My rifle has the smooth barrel nut and the one wrench that is not splined does not tighten down enough. It’s been a while since I used this kit though and we moved since then. Last savage it had the rib or splined nut where the other wrench...

Here are some of the measurements. muzzle is .704/.705…22 inches is .734…20 inches is .759….10 inches is .935 and at the 6.9 inch mark is .986 and right in front of the nut it measured 1.035. It’s closer to the heavy sporter barrel but still looks very much like a straight taper. I begging to...

I cleaned it back to bare metal yesterday and it looks like just from looking at the rifling the first 2 inches are not as deep as the rifling farther up the barrel. The first inch looks really light rifling. I figured it would eventually burn out the barrel and a lot say it ran good for a long...

It’s shot good up to about 4500 rounds. It started opening up the groups after running about 300 rounds of higher velocities using some RL26. RL26 gave me another 100fps on the 140 Berger. But my thoughts now are I’m looking at replacing the barrel and probably going to a 280 Ackley for a little...

That is the gun. I just put in the neighborhood of 5000 rounds down the pipe. I know it has now over 4800 for sure.

I have taken measurements and it comes in between the 2 tapers or sizes. I had it out of the stock yesterday going over the measurements. I think it’s something that may have been a special run at Cabela’s. It’s a 24 inch fluted barrel that is .705 or .704 at the muzzle and at 22 inches it...

I had this rifle fo some time now and been thinking about rebarrelling the rifle. Everything I can tell the barrel is between a heavy sporter and a light varmint. It is a straight taper though. It’s a fluted 24 inch 6.5X284Norma. Could the taper be off slightly when compared to what the barrel...

I shoot heavy loads. Mine are 168ABLR on top of 46.8 grn of staball at 2.800 mag box length. I think I can push the out just a little to like 2.83 or 2.85 but I thought I may have jammed on cycling. CCI BR2 primers also and hornady brass. Velocity is 2685fps. I’ve been dabbling with the 150ELDX...

This is just me but I was having trouble with my 1/10 twist 308Win 26inch Howa with lighter bullets. Then for poops and giggles I loaded up some 212ELDX bullets with 41 grains of accurate 4064 at 2.835 COL. They shoot about .8MOA and fly about the same out to 500yrds depending on me. Its slow...

Just seen where Ron Spomer and Backfire TV host showed if shooting mono bullets (all copper) you need to clean to bare metal in the rifle before shooting the mono's if you been shooting copper jacket lead bullets. They had some interesting results with group size. Made me think how bad my 6.5...

Depending on how serious or how much you are willing to spend. This for me would be very tough to answer. I personally have never saved enough to buy a full custom build but I have enough rifles to pay for one. Saying that I like to tinker with hand loads a lot and kind obsess over what my...

Finally got out with the 264. Cleaned it out and then shot 3 and cleaned and shot 3 and cleaned and repeated this for 12 shots while sighing it in. So now it has 12 shots down the pipe. Most of the velocity’s for the 142’s were around the 2920ish and the 135 were about 2935ish for 63grains of...

But this has got me thinking, I now want to put out some milk jugs and see how I do. I generally just shoot paper and rocks with all the intention of practicing for hunting season or tinkering with my loads which is what I do mostly. This was my 500 yard target for my 7mm-08 with factory 150eldx...