Recent content by surfr716

I highly recommend the 185 berger, think its the hybrid hunter. Super accurate in my rifles and an absolute hammer on game. I shot my mule deer with one last year 200 lb plus buck facing almost straight on, through the front shoulder blade recovered in the opposite side hip bone. Absolutely...

id stick with the 1:8 unless your dead set on running the 90 gr class bullets, anything lighter you have to download the cartridge or the jackets tend to come apart just past the muzzle. an 8 will stabilize the bullets in the 80 gr class without issue, even the 9 twist im running now will...

the xrs is a hybrid stock/chassis, sort of a skin over an aluminum skeleton. it gets damned cold in E washington too so a straight metal chassis was sort of out for me as well. it also works with the bottom bolt release so no issue there. the adjustability is massive on the xrs, cant reccomend...

If you're looking at a heavy barrel 22-250 ai I strongly recommend building a 22 creedmoor instead; all the velocity, increased powder capacity, none of the fireforming. Brass can be sourced with proper head stamp or just take 6 creed and neck it down, no neck turning, no mess, just neck and...

good looking GWP, I've got a couple at the house myself. We have a similar arrangement in I shoot it they retrieve it. Only exception is doves, my male wont retrieve a dove, just stands on it and looks at me till I come grab it.

280 ai gets my vote. I'm thinking of doing a similar project with my older model 110 in 270

I have a kimber montana in 300 WSM, all in with a leupold vx2 it tips the scale right at 6 lbs. It's easy to carry all day, has an excellent trigger, and is sub MOA accurate. I highly recommend the kimber rifle. Caveat though you're going to have to get used to shooting such a light rifle, you...

i started reloading the 162 gr eld x for my 7mm stw this season for mulies and black bear. They shoot really accurate through my model 70 classic so I'm curious to see how they preform at the velocities the stw produces on game. i generally use a bonded bullet because I've grown up with them...

The 110 shooting accurate is not all that surprising, '06 is easy to load for and savages are stupid accurate for an out of the box no frills gun. I've owned dozens and never had one that wasn't a shooter without me gaging to mess with it. My only 700 needed a new stock and and a lot of load...

I like lee for most of my reloading, but my stw dies are rcbs fl sizing die and a redding competition seating die. Seems to work

Yes it can be done, I looked into this earlier, you need an intermediary die like a 338 or 30 cal to full length size with then run it through the stw die. Apparently 8mm rem mag works great. I haven't tried it yet though so this is theoretical info from me but comes from sources that verify...

My stainless is a 1:9.25 twist. I've never shot anything over a 160 out of it though. I think 175 would be as far up as it would be able to handle but I could be wrong. @black, which range are you headed to? The only one I've been to since I moved here is kenmore and I wouldn't recommend them as...

Cabelas and midway had the nosler brass in stock a couple days ago, I know the price blows but it's good brass. Or if you're so inclined you could buy a couple boxes of their loaded ammo for damned near the same price and have some fun emptying it.

I've heard that the stw with its faster mv can use heavier bullets, how fast does something actually have to go before this comes into play? I know the stw is a fair shake faster than the 7mm mag but my only real long range shooting has come from my 308. I just picked a twist rate and found some...

I've got a model 70 classic that was re chambered from 7mm mag to 7mm stw, as far as I've been able to find its either a 1:9.25 or 1:9.5 twist rate. How heavy of bullets will this stabalize? I've shot 160s but I would like to see what the really heavies can do. I looked at bergers website and it...