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Ackley improved or Ackley changed
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<blockquote data-quote="MT4XFore" data-source="post: 156019" data-attributes="member: 4945"><p>53, Like most of the others have said, it's a kinda what do you really want sorta thing. I had my 22-250 blueprinted and turned into an Ackely with a new stock, trigger work, and a new heavier barrel. I am tickled to death with mine. It's really fun to shoot a rifle that doesn't miss,....unless I do something wrong!! As far a fire forming goes, I did all of mine in prairie dog towns. A good Ackely will shoot regular 22-250 rounds almost as well as the AI version. So fireforming is not an issue in my mind. As far as dies go, all you really need is a full length sizing die. You can use the regular 22-250 bullet seating die with no problem. In fact, I have a set of RCBS Competition dies in .223 and I use the seating die in that set (Vickerman style) to seat both my 22-250 AI and my .223AI. So I guess what it comes down to is what do you really want. Personally, like one of the fellas said, I really like the look of my cases, and I like the performance of the round. I know this probably doesn't help, but I just thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth.</p><p>God Bless,</p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MT4XFore, post: 156019, member: 4945"] 53, Like most of the others have said, it's a kinda what do you really want sorta thing. I had my 22-250 blueprinted and turned into an Ackely with a new stock, trigger work, and a new heavier barrel. I am tickled to death with mine. It's really fun to shoot a rifle that doesn't miss,....unless I do something wrong!! As far a fire forming goes, I did all of mine in prairie dog towns. A good Ackely will shoot regular 22-250 rounds almost as well as the AI version. So fireforming is not an issue in my mind. As far as dies go, all you really need is a full length sizing die. You can use the regular 22-250 bullet seating die with no problem. In fact, I have a set of RCBS Competition dies in .223 and I use the seating die in that set (Vickerman style) to seat both my 22-250 AI and my .223AI. So I guess what it comes down to is what do you really want. Personally, like one of the fellas said, I really like the look of my cases, and I like the performance of the round. I know this probably doesn't help, but I just thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth. God Bless, Jim [/QUOTE]
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