Recent content by Gunpoor

I use IMR4064 in my 308Win with 165 Speer BTSP bullets, but anything above 41.5 grains (which gives very good accuracy) starts looking like a shotgun pattern. I have read and heard other reloaders sing praises for Varget, but have never found any accuracy in cartridge I have tried it in. My...

I used IMR4350 in a 243Win with 100 grain Hornady IL bullets. It was a tack driver with this combo. I always loaded 30/06 with H4831SC, but I believe a load with IMR 4350 could work well. The IMR 4350 is slighter slower burning than the H4350.

I am using an electric Lyman Universal Power trimmer I bought second hand from a fellow reloader and have had it for a lot of years. I don't mind using a hand crank trimmer for rifle brass, but when I prep pistol cases in larger numbers the electric is very handy. I don't remember what company...

I use a small amount of Nu Finish liquid car wax in my tumbler to make the cases shine but honestly it really doesn't make them shoot any better. The same can be said of washing the dust off of them. I just tumble and check size and trim if needed and load them and have never had a problem...

One think you don't mention is bullet. Some polymer tipped bullets suffer tip deformation during flight from friction heat, therefore the longer the air time the more deformation which affects accuracy. I tried Hornady SST bullets and thought they would yield better long range accuracy with...

165 grain bullets is what my buddy and I loaded for our 300WSM rifles, his a Browning A-bolt and mine a Tikka T3 Lite. We used 66 grains of IMR4350 and Hornady IL bullet and they were very accurate in my rifle and were a total tack driver in his Browning. He has shot several elk with this load...

Some gunshops used to do lay-away plans on guns, but I don't know if they still do. Personally I don't see anything wrong with buying this way, although I have never done it.

I don't think a custom rifle barrel should have all those scoring marks. I looked at the pics first and thought it was an OTC rifle barrel, which wouldn't have surprised me. If the rifle shoots well I wouldn't worry about what it looks like through your camera. If it shoots as bad as it looks...

I look to find a powder that gives somewhere in the neighborhood of 88% capacity (+/-) for the bullet I am wanting to shoot, because more often than not that is where I find the best load. Just because the burn rate is similar between two powders doesn't mean they will react the same...

I made up an accurate load for my 270Win using CCI #200 primers and H4831 and then tried the same load but switched to Win WLRP primers and the load showed extreme over-pressure signs and also was not accurate. Sometimes switching primers shows little or no difference but sometimes its a real...

26Reload, you should be getting 3600-3750 ft/sec out of your 7RUM with a 168 grain bullet. Something just doesn't seem quite right with your number.

The only powder my S-I-L could get to shoot decent out of his 257WBY was H1000, but he was using cup and core bullets.

It could well be barrel heat after firing the first four rounds. How long do you let the barrel cool between shots? Steel moves when heated and a rifle barrel is no exception.

I don't have a lot of experience with bedding actions/barrels but what little I have leaves me liking the action bedded through the recoil lug but leaving the barrel free floating. I guess each scenario has it's upside and downside, so mostly I like free floating tubes whether there is action...