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He was "In a hurry" to get ready for an upcoming hunt and was distracted by his kids who were running in and out of the room. Two things I told him NOT to do while loading. He says the bolt handle was in his lap after the shot and the best he can tell the bolt has rotated towards the open...

Thank you very much for your time sir. I am just amazed he was ok.

A buddy of mine who bought a 7mm saum from me has recently gotten his own loading setup. He wanted to keep using a load that I have used extensively in this rifle consisting of fed 215 remington brass magpro and 150 gr scirrocco. He is pretty new to reloading and only had rem 9 1/2M on hand so i...

I have a Sako 85 Finnlight .270 Win. that is crazy accurate with 140 NBT's and Rl-17. Short 21 7/16" Barrel so it only does about 2900 fps. Wish I could post a pic of groups but man it shoots.

I only tried two powders in mine and found a load I really liked. Win supreme 780 gave great velocity however SD was a little wild. Magpro wound up producing 2960 fps from a 24" bbl with excellent accuracy and was very consistant across the chronograph as well. Might be worth a try if you have...

I shoot a sako 75 in 7mm RUM. Got my load straight out of lyman manual, 150 scirocco and 104 grs of H50Bmg, fed 215. According to my chrony is doing 3350. It shoots great all year round so I never messed with it.

I have pretty close to the same set up, 27" shilen 4 contour on a 700. I do not have my data handy but I tried H-1000 and Retumbo. Both powders were very accurate with the 115 gr Berger with the Retumbo giving around 50 fps more velocity. My max loads were 59.5 grs with the 1000 and 60 grs with...

Midway can get the barrels cheaper fom Shilen because they are buying ten or twenty or whatever at a whack, whereas you would only be putting in an order tio Shilen for one. That being said shilen produces two grades of barrels, match and select match grades, they are not seconds or anything...

One of my favorite rifles is my Sako 75 7mm Ultra. Glad to see other people using and enjoying the caliber. I shoot the 150 gr swift in mine as well and it is frighteningly accurate, especially for a bone stock rifle. It likes a full case of H50BMG lit by Fed 215s, with concentration and good...

I have had one event like this while loading for a 7mm ultra. A buddy purchased a used Rem 700 and after a thorough cleaning and inspection I discovered his rifle had what I thoucht was an abnormally long throat. Be it from a huge amount of free bore from factory or the previous owner melting...

Avid shooer, hunter, hand loader, tinker, rifle nut. Been involved with shooting and hunting since I was a little fart. Worked at a wonderful shooting range in south texas for six years which is sadly now closed. Have worked on towboats along the intercoastal and Mississippi for last nine years...