Recent content by pafisher

Jerry, the reason that I am staying away from the WSSM case is that as someone else mentioned it is too thick. What I'd love is a magnum headed case for which Lapua made brass, but I can't come up with anything practical. As to some of the other suggestions, they either don't have the case...

Yeah, I've been looking at the brass situation. Basically Remington and that's it, and my experience with it has never been good. I could probably start from 7mm WSM brass which would expand the possibilities to Winchester (ok, but not great) and Norma (good, but somewhat soft sometimes) at...

I'm looking to build one or two hunting rifles on a remington style short action for large deer out to 500 yards. I've been thinking about building them based on the Remington SAUM cartridge and want to use a 6.5mm round like the 142gr SMK. What do you guys think of the shortened 6.5 version...