Recent content by specweldtom

Polish or don't polish, whatever suits you, but it suits me to NEVER fire a cartridge in an oiled chamber. Good hunting, Tom

B23, freebore is a bullet diameter cylindrical section of the chamber immediately in front of the case mouth. Throat (or leade) is a tapered section in front of the freebore that eases the bullet into the rifling. Many chambers don't have freebore, so the throat starts right in front of the case...

I have used throating reamers so that longer, heavier bullets or blunter ogive bullets, in hot loads, could be seated well off the rifling, usually long range rifles with Sierra mkhp bullets. After I got a Hawkeye borescope, I stopped using separate throating reamers. Every throat done with a...

I live in town, so I don't shoot rimfire. I have a problem with treerats biting and wasting fruit on my trees in the backyard. I've tried several spring air guns in .177 and .22. They are sensitive to the way they are held and frequently scatter hits. One of the .177's was supersonic, so it...

JJ, you have a P/M. Tom

Back in the day, we used flat rubber pads on bolt action match rifles. No recoil pads, even on magnum any-any rifles. The belief was that thick recoil pads could compress unpredictably under recoil, and shift the point of impact. I used 1/4" thick Roy Dunlap solid rubber pads on .308, 30-06, 7mm...

I have a B & C Medalist stock with the discontinued rubber coating that has deteriorated from just being tacky to now being sticky. B & C can refinish it in their urethane finish at a reasonable price ($63.00), but I would like to just clean it up and keep using it. Does anybody know how to...

Good suggestion JE. I've never owned or shot a MK 4, so had no experience with them. Just decided to research it before buying. First thing was the price, $600 (later in the day was raised to $800). I thought the scope was a $1400 scope so was skeptical. It's actually a $1600 scope. A plain...

Almost bought a 4.5 x 14 x 50 Leupold lighted mil-dot MK 4 this weekend at a gun show. Since I've never owned or shot a MK 4, I decided to research it before buying. REALLY glad I did. After finding a warning about counterfeit Leupolds, I checked the scope out thoroughly against the Leupold...

Good thread. I have some misgivings about taking a resulphurized stainless barrel up to 1800-2000deg F, but Shortgrass's experience and success with the process trumps idle conjecture. The cost of the process seems very reasonable to me. The few rifles that I have left are all...

I like to brag on people that give outstanding customer service. I searched and found that Minox handles warranty and repair service for Puma knives in the U.S.. I sent them 2 wornout Puma folders, a Master and a General. They both needed blade replacement. Minox shipped them to Germany, had...

All my experience with the .338 x .378 is on MK V actions. I don't know much about the Stiller actions or detachable mag bottom metal. I have installed an extended Watt box. Check with HSP to verify that they make a MK V stock for a heavy barrel. Several years ago they didn't. Bell & Carlson I...

Read the original post, then looked at the pictures. 800 yds might not be far enough away! Tom

Ryan, just measuring O.D. runout.... Always figured measuring bore straightness was beyond my ability. I just depended on the barrel maker to deliver a straight barrel/bore. The only "custom" barrel that I have been disappointed with was the 17-4 Walther, but it had been "Blackstar"...