Recent content by Prairie Dog50

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In John Burns "Best of the West", he uses a remington 700 VLS to show how to accurize a factory rifle, and develop loads to be used out to a thousand yards. He covers glass bedding, tuning the trigger and developing custom drop compensating turrets, all with the VLS....Food for thought.

mtang, this is the part of the whole equation that leaves me scratching my head, and wondering if I'm going to one day find myself in a coffin or emergency room because I never truly found the actual root of the problem.

I agree, my gut instinct tells me that the copper build up is the symptom of a much bigger problem.

This is something I haven't thought about or ever even heard of for that matter. I havn't measured the cases yet, but I will do so tonight. All of the brass that we have shot up to this point, through this gun has only been shot and resized, at the most two times... I will find out when I...

Hornady V-Max's, and yes moly probably would be better, but they're more expensive, which to me personally negates high volume. As far as lapping or using the Tubbs Final Finish, it might help but I hate to take that kind of chance and ruin the guns accuracy. We've shot multiple sub half moa...

There was an excessive amount covering the whole length, but there was a noticeble amount more around the chamber throat area.

Well boys, I was wrong, took the gun to Shilen, and had them check it out. I got to watch them use the Go-No-Go gauge, and the head space is 100% with-in tolerance. Next they used a bore scope, and showed me all of the excessive copper build-up, and said it was way more than what was possible...

I took some brass to the gun smith from several handloads after he had "cleaned the gun properly", (savage model 12 fv) and even though they showed several spots where the bolt face had imprinted itself on the base of the case, and even though several of them had flattened and cratered primers...

The problem is definitely not there with factory ammo, I have shot winchester, and hornady factory ammo and the primers appear just fine. As far as my cleaning method, and waiting till 100 rounds to do it; guys, this is a prairie dog rig, and for personal preferances, I don't want to stop after...

all, So I have a .22-250 model 12 fv savage that we were trying to come up with a load for to go p-dog hunting. After trying 4 different kinds of brass, 6 different bullets, 2 different primers, and having all of them blow out and flatten primers I concluded that something was wrong with the...

Bergers are undoubtedly great bullets, but I have had a lot of success with 178 grain HNDY A-Maxs, and 74 grains of varget. After I ladder testing this load in my Tikka T-3 I found that the varget had a very large window for accuracy. If I was one grain to heavy or light it really doesn't...

You are correct, I am a little bit skeptical about using a long action platform to build a short action P-Dog gun on. My dad keeps telling me that it would be fine. However I think that he forgets that his tack driving-very accurate prairie dog gun is built on a Yugo 48 (basically a 98 Mauser...

I have recently aquired a vz24 mauser 98 and I was hoping to build a prairie dog rig with it. I know traditionally a short action would be preferable because you could select cartridges like the .22-250, .243, or .223. I have thought about the .25-06 as a Long action possibility. So to this...