Recent content by roger8

I did a 223 rem for a club member that did exactly what your barrel is doing. Massive carbon ring in front of the case neck in the chamber. Soaked for 24 hrs in Short Scrub, clean and soak again for 24 hrs. This eventually removed the carbon ring and a then had to remove the copper. He was...

Years ago when trying to nake my first custom cases a friend gave me some of his special sizing lube, nursing mothers pure lanolin nipple cream. It works really well

We have a great problem here in Oz getting brass in any kind of numbers. I have barreled several 7 x 57 Ai's and 257AI and we just use what brass we can find, 7 x 57 Selliot and Belliot, 7x57 Kynoch, even 8x57 rem brass. For my last 257AI open gun I used weight batched Hornady 275 Rigby brass. I...

Primers aren’t that easy to get here, three times the price they were three years ago

Strangely enough our prices for Varget (ArR2208) haven't really changed much in the last 3-4 years, it is made here, our problem is getting the factory to make the stuff, haven't seen pistol powder from ADI for a couple of years. I think we are being bleed dry and making people use all there...

I have been using Blackjack 131"s in my 257 AI, worked up to 46 grn of AR2209 ( H4350 ) just on the 2800fps out of a 30 inch Maddco 1:8, shoots very well at 300yds, more work required for longer range, only went to 46 grn at the time as I was working blind and couldn't find that much data at...

Oh To see the world through rose colored glasses!

From what I have been told they are having humidity problems at the manufacturing plant. i have been able to get 8208 without much trouble, but pistol powders and Trailboss haven't been manufactured for quite while. They are planning to do the popular powders on a regular basis, less popular...

Just anneal it

I have had this happen in the 500s&w with lge rifle primers and ar2205( 4227 ). Worked in load testing on a warm day , when loaded and tried in colder weather wouldn’t reliably fire

Just get the gunsmith to run the 280 ai reamer in short and use 30/06 brass

We have firearm reveiwers over here that like Randy who read specs and don't check them themselves, from what I see on the Savage site both guns look really good to me, I just wish we could have the Reneguage over here and hopefully the straight pull makes it here. Cheers fro Australia

I had a 7x57 AI that the cases were getting hard to chamber after alot of firings, I started bumping the shoulders, this resulted in head separations. The real problems was that the necks had grown longer. My point is check case length first, then if they are hard to chamber FL size next, then...