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If You Get Things Rolling With Dave Now, You Will Have A Rig For Next Years Season. He May Be Slow, But Not That Slow. Dave Can Do Re-Chamber Work Or Raw Blank Barrels. My Practical Is A 30 Inch Lilja 3 Groove Sendaro Contour Fluted With A Break. The Joint Seam On The Break Is Blended So Well...

If You Get Things Rolling With Dave Now, You Will Have A Rig For Next Years Season. He May Be Slow, But Not That Slow. Dave Can Do Re-Chamber Work Or Raw Blank Barrels. My Practical Is A 30 Inch Lilja 3 Groove Sendaro Contour Fluted With A Break. The Joint Seam On The Break Is Blended So Well...

Jfive, Dave Young, Owner Of "Young's Gunsmithing" In Tracy, Montana (Just Outside Of Great Falls) Is An Absolute Miracle Worker On Anything Metal. The Downside To His Meticulous Attention To Detail Is A Lengthy Wait. But, Price Is Fair, And Quality Is Phenomenal. He Built My Practical...

Fella's, When It Comes To Berger Bullets, And The VLD secant Ogive, I Strongly Suggest Reading Pages 100 And 101 Of Volume 1 Berger Bullets Reloading Manual. In Short: VLD Bullets Are Seat Depth Sensitive And That "Sweet Spot" Is Approximately .040 In WiDth. It Is Recommended To Load 24...

Fellas, Me Thinks Something Strange Be Going On With Powders... Between 300Stw's 27 Inch Pipe And My 30 Incher, There Should Only Be An Approximate Velocity Difference Of 75 To 125 Feet Per Second. Given The Numbers He Reported, That Is Holding True. However, 300, Be Wary Of Your 7828SSC...

SkyKing, When I Tested REtumbo And H1000 In My 30Inch 3 Groove Lilja, I Didn't Crest 3000 Fps Until 80+ Grains Of Charge. I'm At A Mean Elevation Of 3450 Ft, But That Doesn't Account For The Drastic Difference In Velocities. Any Ideas On What Is Going On? My Chronograph Is An Oheler 35.

My Unturned Bushing Size For The Redding Dies Is .313, Turned Size Is .311. Brass Is Norma, Primer Is CCI 250, Bullet Is Berger 180 VLD hunter .284, Powder Is H4831 @ 76Gr., Seat Depth Is .130, Muzzle Velocity Is 3056fps Avg. @ 84 Deg F 30.15InHg 3450Ft (29.92InHg @ 3670 Ft), SD Of 09, Avg 5...

I have a 7mm 300 Win Mag. I'm not exactly sure what the chamber cast is, but I do know that my smith measured his reamer specifically for the Berger 180gr. VLD's. I have found that mine likes a seat depth of .130 and will put a .689 six shot aggregate at 200 yards with an average muzzle...