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6br dasher=unbelievable performance!
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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 67859" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p><strong>Re: goodgrooper little help</strong></p><p></p><p>THe brx is kindof a poor mans version of the dasher if you are going to look at it from a tooling point of view. I guess it costs more to make a reamer for the dasher, but it couldn't be too much more. A few bucks maybe. And regular br dies can be used to load the BRX, whereas you must get dasher dies for the dasher.</p><p></p><p>I personally would still go with the dasher for your project. I believe, no scratch that, <font color="blue"> I KNOW </font> that the shaper shoulder burns the slower burning powders more efficiently for an increase of performance with the heavier bullets which is what you will be shooting.</p><p>A great example of this is my two 22-250 improved's. One is a 14 twist for 55 grain bullets, and the other is an 8 twist for the 80 grain bullets. The slow twist shoots 55's about 200 feet per second more than a standard 22-250, but the improved fast twist shoots 80 grainers up to 400 fps faster than the standard case can get!</p><p> THis is the whole reason why PO ackley designed his famous alteration, to utilize all the slow burning mil-surplus 4831 that was around at the time. And I say it works! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p><p></p><p>That 22 dasher that was on 6mmbr.com last week was super efficient. It was burning about 6 grains less powder than my 22-250 imp and was getting the same velocity with only a 1 inch longer barrel! Of course, the owner stated clearly that that load would probably not work in any other rifle without blowing it up!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> Where did you get dies or did you make them. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p>I bought a Redding comp bushing neck die and a comp seater for the standard br and two seperate sleeves. My gunsmith then reamed the extra sleeves for the improved with the same reamer that made the chamber. With that, I can load for my standard br or my improved br and all I have to do is insert the correct sleeve. It is a very slick setup. All I had to have made was a body die for the improved, and that is also being handled by Redding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 67859, member: 2852"] [b]Re: goodgrooper little help[/b] THe brx is kindof a poor mans version of the dasher if you are going to look at it from a tooling point of view. I guess it costs more to make a reamer for the dasher, but it couldn't be too much more. A few bucks maybe. And regular br dies can be used to load the BRX, whereas you must get dasher dies for the dasher. I personally would still go with the dasher for your project. I believe, no scratch that, <font color="blue"> I KNOW </font> that the shaper shoulder burns the slower burning powders more efficiently for an increase of performance with the heavier bullets which is what you will be shooting. A great example of this is my two 22-250 improved's. One is a 14 twist for 55 grain bullets, and the other is an 8 twist for the 80 grain bullets. The slow twist shoots 55's about 200 feet per second more than a standard 22-250, but the improved fast twist shoots 80 grainers up to 400 fps faster than the standard case can get! THis is the whole reason why PO ackley designed his famous alteration, to utilize all the slow burning mil-surplus 4831 that was around at the time. And I say it works! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] That 22 dasher that was on 6mmbr.com last week was super efficient. It was burning about 6 grains less powder than my 22-250 imp and was getting the same velocity with only a 1 inch longer barrel! Of course, the owner stated clearly that that load would probably not work in any other rifle without blowing it up! [ QUOTE ] Where did you get dies or did you make them. [/ QUOTE ] I bought a Redding comp bushing neck die and a comp seater for the standard br and two seperate sleeves. My gunsmith then reamed the extra sleeves for the improved with the same reamer that made the chamber. With that, I can load for my standard br or my improved br and all I have to do is insert the correct sleeve. It is a very slick setup. All I had to have made was a body die for the improved, and that is also being handled by Redding. [/QUOTE]
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