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I recently put a 7mm-08 E.R. Shaw barrel on my savage. I've been working up loads with 140 gr Sierra gameking and a barnes 120 gr tsx. I've been able to get each bullet to give a 6 shot 1 inch group. The 140 gr Sierra really likes it with 38.5 grains of IMR 4064 and the Barnes with 41.5 grains...

Thanks for the info guys!! I'm gonna try candle soot an then bed. I have bedded several rifles before. All with devcon. I've hear jb is good too. Any opinions on which is better?

That's what I was thinking. Do you think I could bed the front recoil lug and action screw or do the whole thing?

I installed a Timney trigger in a old remington 721. I had to do some work to the stock to get the trigger to fit. The trigger now has plenty of room and when I set the action in the stock it works perfectly but when I tighten the action screws the firing pin will not stay engaged. If I lift the...

I havent shot it threw a chrony so im not sure what the velocity is for sure but i would guess between 2600 and 2700. Its a mild load. I had just cleaned the gun before the trip to the range and i use hoppes #9 copper fouling and run patches threw untill there is absolutely not residue. also Im...

I have a 6.5-284 and have been shooting sierra game kings with 42.5 grains of H4350 at a depth of 3.020..I have shot over 150 rounds at this recipe and never had a problem but at the range tonight i was doing a ladder test in seating depths. 3 shots at each of 3.010, 3.020 and 3.030. The 3.020...

I have never used the pro hunters but have used the game kings in 6.5 at 140 grains and they have been nothing less than perfect in my opinion. From my understanding the pro hunter and the game king are very similar except for the boat tail so i would expect good results. Any sierra bullet is a...

My buddy has a 264 win mag and when he would shoot groups he would have 3 touching holes and a inch and a half away there would be 2 touching hole. After coming home from the range we checked his barrel to see if it was free floated or not and we found a few pinch points in the stock where it...

I bought the same gun about a year ago and one problem i had was that i couldnt find a rail for mine so I had to pick a scope with a long enough tube to mount on savages factory mounts cause of the long action but i recently bought a weaver 20 moa rail from midway usa so thats a good place to look

I bought a set of redding dies and I love them. It was a 2 die set and I found a redding neck sizer and bought it also but in my opinion a properly set full length die has produced better accuracy. Nosler custom grade reloading brass was resonably priced and has been very consistent but I have...

I have a savage predator in a 6.5-284 and Im using nosler brass and have tried A-max, SST and sierra game kings. The A-max has shot the best out of my riffle with H4831 but later I decided to go to something a little bit stronger for the elk here in utah and went with the sierra game king and...

Thanks for all the ideas. I think I'll get me some bedding products and give it a try. If I bed out on the fore end do I need to take out an extra 3/16 so there is plenty of area for the bedding compound? I am new to the art of gun smithing so is bedding the action something I should try by...

36 grains of IMR 8208 XBR with a CCI BR-2 and 40 grain V-Max does work on a coyote with very lil pelt damage. But that 8208 shoots super fast and is hard on barrels

It does have a sporter barrel and I have been hand loading for it. Its a 270 Win and I tried some berger 130 grain hybrid hunters and 130 grain sierra game kings. I can get them both to shoot a 3/4 to 7/8 inch group with a 3 shot group but the next day when I go back to the range to shoot a 5...

I recently free floated the barrel on a ruger M77 Mark 2 and it seems to have made it shoot way worse than before. Im having a hard time finding a factory replacement stock that isnt free floated like the original stock. Does anyone have any ideas on what might help restore the accuracy that it had?