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<blockquote data-quote="Ross1147" data-source="post: 1657386" data-attributes="member: 106919"><p>So for Father's Day I decided to hook my dad up with giving his rifle a makeover. He has a Tikka T3 in 308 I bought for him for Father's Day back in 2007. I bought a new Leupold scope, new rings, bedded the rifle, modified the bolt stop to make it a long action and bought a new LA magazine. </p><p>Because we live in the great state of CA I also told him I would load him up some non lead rounds. Well, today I went to the range to start load testing. </p><p></p><p>Before I started I needed to zero the new scope so I had a box of old old Federal 308 rounds my dad gave me when I took his gun (not sure of the date but I'd guess they were bought in the late 80s early 90s). First round I touched off left me with a face full of hot gases and burning oil. Tried to eject the round and nothing. So after cycling the action a few times the spent round came out. I decided not to use those rounds anymore and sighted it in with a box from the range store then started load development with 175 grn LRXs. No issues with those at all, think I'm going to settle on 44 grns of IMR 4895 pushing them at 2613 FPS. </p><p></p><p>Well my last 3 shots I had 3 Berger 180 grn I reloaded 2 grns below book max with a jump of .010. Just wanted to see how the gun liked Berger's. Well, first shot I got a face full of smoke again. I know it was stupid, but I figured it was a fluke and shot another. Same thing? </p><p></p><p>What would cause this? Is the headspace on the gun off or would you think something's off with the brass? I was using RP brass with the LRXs and I was using Federal brass (same make of brass that separated with the factory round) with the Berger's. The Fed brass with the Berger's was on it's 3rd firing, once from a SCAR and once from this gun. I just received new 308 brass in the mail today so I'm going to chuck all the brass I used and start new. Just hoping nothings wrong with he gun! </p><p></p><p>Also, which one of you creed loving fools has this license plate???lol [ATTACH=full]138458[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]138459[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]138460[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ross1147, post: 1657386, member: 106919"] So for Father’s Day I decided to hook my dad up with giving his rifle a makeover. He has a Tikka T3 in 308 I bought for him for Father’s Day back in 2007. I bought a new Leupold scope, new rings, bedded the rifle, modified the bolt stop to make it a long action and bought a new LA magazine. Because we live in the great state of CA I also told him I would load him up some non lead rounds. Well, today I went to the range to start load testing. Before I started I needed to zero the new scope so I had a box of old old Federal 308 rounds my dad gave me when I took his gun (not sure of the date but I’d guess they were bought in the late 80s early 90s). First round I touched off left me with a face full of hot gases and burning oil. Tried to eject the round and nothing. So after cycling the action a few times the spent round came out. I decided not to use those rounds anymore and sighted it in with a box from the range store then started load development with 175 grn LRXs. No issues with those at all, think I’m going to settle on 44 grns of IMR 4895 pushing them at 2613 FPS. Well my last 3 shots I had 3 Berger 180 grn I reloaded 2 grns below book max with a jump of .010. Just wanted to see how the gun liked Berger’s. Well, first shot I got a face full of smoke again. I know it was stupid, but I figured it was a fluke and shot another. Same thing? What would cause this? Is the headspace on the gun off or would you think something’s off with the brass? I was using RP brass with the LRXs and I was using Federal brass (same make of brass that separated with the factory round) with the Berger’s. The Fed brass with the Berger’s was on it’s 3rd firing, once from a SCAR and once from this gun. I just received new 308 brass in the mail today so I’m going to chuck all the brass I used and start new. Just hoping nothings wrong with he gun! Also, which one of you creed loving fools has this license plate???lol [ATTACH=full]138458[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]138459[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]138460[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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