Recent content by RoughNeck182

Stormrider: You are thinking of the gauge where the bullet is seated long and loose enough to slide in the neck, and it contacts the rifling to give you a measure of CARTRIDGE Over All Length for chamber. The gauge I am talking about the bullet is seated to NOT contact the rifling, and is...

You can also make one of these case length guages real easy. I just made one of the sliding dounut neck ones (the 'poor mans gauge' from Varmint Al's) and found my Rem 700 .243 measured 30 thou over the SAAMI length so I don't need to trim nearly as often and can get shorter bullets seated out...

Thanks Johnboy, glad I don't have to pull all these rounds and won't have to trim so much. Wish I had made one of these months ago! :)

Recently I was given a box of nearly 100 handloaded rounds for my factory Rem 700-V .243 but upon inspection I found that the cases themselves were a few thousandths over the max length. Now, not wanting to pull all the bullets and trim them all I searched the net about case length. I came...

Sir Hit-A-Lot, we have heard the same thing about the above 20X.... my brother-in-law and I plan to look at one soon (within a month or so) and hopefully take it out of the store for a peek through it to see how things look at higher magnification. I'll try to get some through-the-scope pics if...

Have you ever heard about the Taylor Index? See: Topic of the Month I don't have the personal experience with game to back up Taylor's theory, but I certainly agree in theory that the bullets total kinetic energy at the time of impact isn't the end all and be all. It can't be. Besides the...

I had a very similar experience once. It sounds to me like you have the same dies I have from the Lee Deluxe Rifle kit - the full length sizing die and the collet neck sizing die. I have found that it takes several cycles with the neck sizing die before the shoulder needs to be 'bumped' or...

"ONLY 45 MOA from the bottomed out to the top" I don't know about the tactical model but the regular 6500 elite 2.5-16X42mm is supposed to have 78MOA , and mine actually goes 90 MOA (360 1/4 MOA clicks) from bottom to top. I think there is something seriously wrong with your scope and I would...

Hey guys.. new to the forum (and long range shooting) and I had a question about the 6500 4.5-30x50mm. My brother in law and I are putting together some rifles to get into coyote hunting and informal long range shooting. He has a Weatherby Vanguard in .270 WSM and I have a Remington 700 in...