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<blockquote data-quote="Mesarifle" data-source="post: 502967" data-attributes="member: 33475"><p>Agreed! Anything to get us out into the fields and stave off having to clean the garage out! </p><p> </p><p>"Not this weekend honey; I've got to go out with the boyz and do some very serious testing. Ballistic science and all; you wouldn't understand it though: very complicated. And boring too.</p><p> </p><p>What do you mean, <em>"Why all the beer then?"</em> Hey; it's a dry heat out there, and my kidney stones need to be well-flushed, darling. You don't want me in pain now do you? I didn't think so!!"</p><p> </p><p>And off you go.</p><p> </p><p>As to my own loading research, I had kind of pushed things to the limits some years ago, just after I'd built that rifle. I was, as I recall, running up to about 63+ gr of RL22 in that 6.5-06AI, and it dutifully returned about 3400+ fps from a 140 gr. All OK until I opened the bolt and the primers just, <em>ker-plunk</em>, fell out.... One of my test loads required that I wait a moment until the recevier and brass cooled down before I could coax it out of the chamber! What a nut I was!</p><p> </p><p>Now, I go for about 3250 fps as semi-sane. Fast enough to be sure!</p><p> </p><p>BTW, slightly off topic, but.... I'm looking around to obtain a nice minimalist trailer to tow behind my Banks-modified '96 F350 Crew $X$ (sorry; that's 4 X 4... but then again, maybe the $$$ is more accurate......) 7.3 Power Stroke. It's now sporting about 275 hp and 480 lb-ft of ground-rippling torque! It should pull any smallish trailer without even noticing it! </p><p> </p><p>All this soz I don't have to get down on my aging, decrepit prayer bones and peg a tent into the prairies ever again. Especially in a mid-summer prairie rain and hail storm! Nothing big and fancy, no slide-outs, but perhaps a Toy-Box option so I can also get a Polaris side-by so I can go and find, and then haul back, my bull buffalo/antelope/white-tail, etc. </p><p> </p><p>I also do The Quigley BPC shoot on Father's Day and it's a long haul from where he graciously lets us camp, on down to the firing line, and my <em>arthur-itis</em> don't like it so much, esp. hauling my Sharps, ammo, cleaning gear, etc. </p><p> </p><p>Ain't it a bitch; you get to where you n ave the time and resources and firearms to go hunting, but then you can't just fly about like a young coyote any more! Sheesh! </p><p> </p><p>Anyone got any good ideas? There should be a whole lot of nice slightly used units out there given the economy right now!</p><p> </p><p>BTW #2: I had a customer have me rebbl his old Winchester Mdl 70 a few years back, and I spec'd out the reamer from Manson. It's a <em>tighter-than-SAAMI</em> spec, and VERY concentric piece, for 6mm/244 Remington Ackley, which could make up into a very nice, hyper-accurate long range target or varmint rifle. I may do one just for fun and as a technology demonstrator, with let's say a medium hvy 28 inch Kreiger match bbl, on a Wichita or Nesika Bay action and a Jewell trigger. That ought to put a 100 gr into 0.25" for 10 shots, no? Boringly hyper-accurate, I"d say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mesarifle, post: 502967, member: 33475"] Agreed! Anything to get us out into the fields and stave off having to clean the garage out! "Not this weekend honey; I've got to go out with the boyz and do some very serious testing. Ballistic science and all; you wouldn't understand it though: very complicated. And boring too. What do you mean, [I]"Why all the beer then?"[/I] Hey; it's a dry heat out there, and my kidney stones need to be well-flushed, darling. You don't want me in pain now do you? I didn't think so!!" And off you go. As to my own loading research, I had kind of pushed things to the limits some years ago, just after I'd built that rifle. I was, as I recall, running up to about 63+ gr of RL22 in that 6.5-06AI, and it dutifully returned about 3400+ fps from a 140 gr. All OK until I opened the bolt and the primers just, [I]ker-plunk[/I], fell out.... One of my test loads required that I wait a moment until the recevier and brass cooled down before I could coax it out of the chamber! What a nut I was! Now, I go for about 3250 fps as semi-sane. Fast enough to be sure! BTW, slightly off topic, but.... I'm looking around to obtain a nice minimalist trailer to tow behind my Banks-modified '96 F350 Crew $X$ (sorry; that's 4 X 4... but then again, maybe the $$$ is more accurate......) 7.3 Power Stroke. It's now sporting about 275 hp and 480 lb-ft of ground-rippling torque! It should pull any smallish trailer without even noticing it! All this soz I don't have to get down on my aging, decrepit prayer bones and peg a tent into the prairies ever again. Especially in a mid-summer prairie rain and hail storm! Nothing big and fancy, no slide-outs, but perhaps a Toy-Box option so I can also get a Polaris side-by so I can go and find, and then haul back, my bull buffalo/antelope/white-tail, etc. I also do The Quigley BPC shoot on Father's Day and it's a long haul from where he graciously lets us camp, on down to the firing line, and my [I]arthur-itis[/I] don't like it so much, esp. hauling my Sharps, ammo, cleaning gear, etc. Ain't it a bitch; you get to where you n ave the time and resources and firearms to go hunting, but then you can't just fly about like a young coyote any more! Sheesh! Anyone got any good ideas? There should be a whole lot of nice slightly used units out there given the economy right now! BTW #2: I had a customer have me rebbl his old Winchester Mdl 70 a few years back, and I spec'd out the reamer from Manson. It's a [I]tighter-than-SAAMI[/I] spec, and VERY concentric piece, for 6mm/244 Remington Ackley, which could make up into a very nice, hyper-accurate long range target or varmint rifle. I may do one just for fun and as a technology demonstrator, with let's say a medium hvy 28 inch Kreiger match bbl, on a Wichita or Nesika Bay action and a Jewell trigger. That ought to put a 100 gr into 0.25" for 10 shots, no? Boringly hyper-accurate, I"d say. [/QUOTE]
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