Recent content by bghartle

I do have a bore scope but use it at work. Will bring it home tomorrow and have a look. Cleaned it when I brought it home may not have gotten it good enough. Have purchased rifles before from pawn shops with this same intent and ended up keeping them as they are and found some shooters. The way...

Update to this thread. Found a donor rifle at a pawn shop. Picked up a 300 wsm and brought it home. Ended up getting hurt and having a couple of surgeries. With the time off got to looking at the data on the 300 wsm round and decided to try to work up a load. Didn't want to waste some of my...

I use Strelok quite a bit with several rifles and has been accurate. One rifle 280AI was giving me a hard time out past 600 and found it was a velocity issue. Went back and rechecked with a magneto speed reset zero values in Strelock and now can take it out to 1k without issue.

I use a Sig BDX 2200 an inexpensive Caldwell weather meter Strelok and FX1000 nikon scopes. Once you enter in the weather it will save it along with the elevation. Unless you take some pretty drastic changes throughout the day all you have to enter is distance, slope, wind, and direction. From...

This is the same load I came up with in my Remington AWR 26" with a break. I am only getting 3079 @ 8K elevation. Have taken to 800 yards at basketball sized rocks no problem. Magazine length is my problem right now. If I load .30 off lands the 200 yard group gets smaller but wont fit in mag. I...

I moved to Wyoming in the late 70's and have been hunting elk ever since. Lost my first elk using 30-06 factory Remington ammo heavy round nosed bullets haven't lost one since. I still view that shot over and over in my head. I've taken many since then and forgot some of them. In the early...

Are 6.5 GAP 4s dies the same as 6.5 saum. From what I understand they are and Midway has them on sale.

I am pretty well convinced on the 6.5 saum after finding out that there is correct head stamped brass available at a reasonable cost. I have a donor rifle in my sights that I think I can get at a reasonable price. The last thing that concerns me is what dies to go with. I want to have a FL...

Thank you this is why I asked the question. Originally I couldn't find a thread but after I started it i dug around and found 2 others. I am now seriously thinking going the saum direction because of being a tad shorter. I have a 300 rum AWR that is a single shot because of magazine length issue...

First time creating a thread. I am thinking of a new build and am leaning toward doing a 6.5 wsm. I have been reading about the 6.5 saum though and don't want to look back and say should have could have. At this point I have not dealt with the 6.5 caliber at all. Now I am interested in trying a...