Recent content by Songdoger

Mini 14. Spent way too much money trying to get it to shoot sub moa. Best I could get is 2” It would always throw 1 or 2 rounds out of nice .60” group. Sold it for a loss got an AR and never looked back. Ruger should just call it SAP 14. Spray And Pray ya hit something 🤣

22CHeetah MK1. Tight neck 80 gr JLK’s 3450-3500 1-9” twist 26” bbl. Made 850 rds before it started shredding bullets. Cut off 4” and cut new chamber to use as fireform barrel. Put new 28” 8 twist on it and lost interest in it. Too much work for short brass life. Went to 6-284. Have 1k rds...

I still have about 3lbs MRP left that I got in late 90’s. I don’t work up any new loads with it due to the fact you stated. All powders and primers are priced insane. It’s part of the plan. Not sure if mfg’s are being imposed massive excise taxes or if they are just playing supply and demand...

Yes it’s best suited for heavy for caliber cartridges. I’ve used it in 6-284 with 105’s and 22CHeetah with 80’s with amazing accuracy. Velocities were at least 100 fps slower with CHeetah vs 7828ssc or Norma MRP though. With the 300W/180 combo you can see in QL pic above 99% of powder is burnt...

Optimal barrel time node for 24” barrel is node 4 = 1.1016. Node 5= 1.2282. That load in pic is very close to node 4. If your velocities are close to QL’s you’ll be very close to an accurate load. Dropping down to 84 grns N565 would put you spot on node 5 with velocities at or near 3050fps

Just for reference I have stabilized 80gr Berger’s and JLK’s out to 1k yards with a 9 twist in a 22CHeetah. It’s all about RPMs. At the velocities you will be shooting I wouldn’t go any faster than 8t. There are a lot of good actions now days. For a budget build I would go Tikka or Rem. No...

I worked up a load for a friends Ruger American 22" bbl in 22-250 using 69 smk's that shot sub 1".640". 5 shot. 36g CFE223 with 2.360"OAL at 3237 fps. Went up to 37gr at 3325fps and still grouped well but not as good and seemed a bit hot on 75* day. With the IMR 4350 I would try 36.6-36.8 grs at...

A lot of great recommendations. My boys were shooting 450 bm at 9 but I modified ar with weighted carrier heavy buffer and spring with a Ross muzzle break to tame the recoil pulse to a soft push. About in between a .410/20ga slug recoil. I feel 6.8 SPC and 6.5 Grendel would make a great rifle...

Sightron SIII bought my first one 2 years ago. Was a devoted Leupold guy until then. Got a lot more scope for less$$

I had a similar issue with a tight neck 22 CHeetah shooting 80 gr JLK’s. Drilled the stem out and lapped with bullet. Neck tension was an issue. If too tight it would press bullet into stem then slightly pull bullet out of case on return of the press ram. Got in a habit of swiping finger and...

I can’t shoot that good on my best days. . I’m happy to consistently hit 8” steel at 700 yards. No wind day it’s easy. Variable wind days it’s tough without flags every 100 yards

I use Kroil for carbon and KG12 for copper. Use to use sweets 7.62. I have used sweets till I had clean patches. Killed sweets with 2 wet patches of kroil then patched till dry. Ran KG12 and got more blue patches. Don’t get too OCD on copper anymore unless accuracy degrades.

Never considered barrel wear when building new rifle. Barrels are like tires. Shoot it out rebarrel. If ya liked that chamber stick with it if not try another. I would personally go with 6.5 Saum. Just my $.02 opinion