Recent content by Smoothie25

That's interesting. I have a rifle that consistently has the first two shots touching and the third a 1/2-1" off. My assumption was barrel heating up b/c it's a shorter barrel. I'll try loading one at a time next time and will report back.

I'm in the market for a 243 and 30-06 Redding body die and Peterson or Lapua brass for both. Would also be willing to trade 308 and 243 bullets for dies/brass.

CBTO to lands is 2.306". Mag length (2.260") is .046" jump. So you think I could have jumped over a good seating depth by using .040" increments?

Hi All, I'm working up a load for a new bullet. I found a powder node that had SD 11, ES 21. Ruger American 243 Sierra Gamechanger 90gr H4350 Fed 210 Win brass (fired several times in the rifle, trimmed and annealed) I shot the ladder at 2.26" which is mag length. I used Berger's suggested...

I used a pair of Nikon Monarch 5 10x42 for several years and loved them. With your budget up to $600 you could get the Monarch 7s and get a little better quality and much wider field of view.

My brother in law and I just set up four cuddeback cameras as well as one of the home cell cameras for the cuddelink system. You can set them up to daisy chain to the home camera and pull pics from one camera or have them sent to your phone. I don't know much about it but it seems pretty slick...

Alot of good info provided, appreciate it! I loaded 10 rounds of 57.7 and couldn't repeat the 57.5/58 load. SD/ES was 19/39. I put all the Chrono data in a table and noticed a flat spot between 57 and 57.5 so I loaded up 10 rounds of 57.3 and got good groups and SD/ES of 10/21 so I'm happy...

I'm using brass that's been fired in this gun before. It's FL sized. I don't have tools to measure the shoulder. Is this something I should consider? What are the advantages to know how much the shoulder expands after firing? I'm a little hesitant to go much higher than 58gr as that's already...

Looking for some help on interpreting this data. This is a 30-06 tikka shooting 180 AB. I used a magnetospeed shooting at 100 yards. I'm torn between chasing low SD/ES or group size... What load would you guys/gals try next? 54.5gr - 1.6" Avg 2579 SD 22 ES 44 2581 2600 2556 55gr - 1.2" Avg...

https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-zibj4-d585dc Here's a Jay Scott Outdoors podcast talking about all the specs of this rifle. My buddy has the Gen 1 and it's pretty slick. Might have to pull the trigger on this one if I find another rifle.

Another vote for the Cabelas branded double rifle case!

I had the same issue with my collet die as well. I couldn't get enough tension to hold the bullet tight. I could push the bullet in the case easily with my thumb. I assumed it was user error bc I haven't heard many people have the same problem.

I have a 695 and am considering getting is rebarreled at some point. I see a lot of gunsmiths offer barrels for T3s but no mention of the older 695/595 series. Are the threads the same for the T3 and the 695?