Recent content by bboswell

Now it all makes more sense. I gave up after every method mentioned here and elsewhere failed. I was determined to get it out even at the expense of the barrel because I wanted to prove that the chamber was out of spec and possibly get TC to cover it. I used an 18" long by .25" drill and...

It spent 2 hours in the freezer today, tried driving the dowel out with aluminum & then steel rod. Didn't budge. There is not enough dowel in the chamber to grab but too much to chamber a primed piece of brass. I let it soak in lighter fluid for an hour or so and now have stainless...

step 1 - bullet was stuck so I put dowel in from muzzle to tap out the bullet, the bullet was stuck much worse than I imagined and the dowel broke inside the barrel about 3" from the muzzle. Step 2 - I threaded a rod into the base of the bullet and used a small slide hammer to pull the bullet...

The bullet is out. The wooden dowel is the only remaining problem.

A friend chambered a factory loaded bullet in his 270 Encore, shot one and chambered another, since no shot came so he ejected the round, bullet stuck in rifling, powder dumped out and primed case flew.... He brought it to me to clear the stuck bullet. I figured it would be easy to put a...

Got my hands on a box of 212g today to try in my 300 RUM. Due to some comments I read here I measured the OD of 5 ELDX, 5 ABLR's & 5 VLD Hunting. The average of each group showed the ELDX's to be 0.0005 larger in diameter than the other 2 bullets types. This is not nearly the discrepancy I...

The love from each accuracy or terminal performance on game? If game how did they hold up on close range shots?

Earned some respect with that response!

I just came upon the Classic Hunter after being frustrated with the VLD's. I haven't found a rifle that will cycle from the mag and group well with the VLD. The Classic Hunter is supposed to be the fix for this, it comes close in BC to the VLD in every bullet I checked except for the 168g 30...

Very nice set up. I am in the process of building out my room with a similar set up and have a couple of questions about your island. 1. Do you like it that wide or would it be better more narrow so that you could get to both sides of the rifle by walking around? 2. Would it be nice...

120g Barnes Vortex has been poison for both deer and hogs out of our two 7-08's.