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Reloading
This is not the norm for me. Is it safe?
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<blockquote data-quote="bluedog69" data-source="post: 3052747" data-attributes="member: 118823"><p>So this post popped back up in my inbox. Figured I would update.</p><p>We have cleaned and shot this rifle a fair amount now.</p><p>What I think is/was the problem is that as the gun starts to get dirty(20 rounds even)</p><p>you can start to see that one side of the bullet is contacting the lead area. Basically I think it may be a crooked or off center drill job on the barrel or chamber job crooked or maybe a little of both. </p><p>So with some shooting and cleaning and polishing it is somewhat better now. It doesn't build up crud as fast plus we have been shooting Varget instead of 2200 in it.(Varget cleaner than 2200?) Crazy part is how accurate this thing is. We have done zero load development...lack of time. What is crazy to me is that after cleaning there really isn't a flier. The other day we cleaned it thoroughly then took it out to switch from deer season load to coyote load. It shot a 155 grain fouler round(deer load), two Nolser 110 yote loads with benchmark, and two hornady 110's with Varget all into a 3/4 MOA spot. Which was exactly where we had sighted it in before deer season and before cleaning. I know that is by no means a spectacular group but 3 bullets with a 45 grain spread and two powders with random charges all in the same spot after cleaning. Plus this is the same gun we remounted the thermal onto the rail and it was still dead on at 300 yards.</p><p>After this starts getting dirtied up good you can see where one side of the bullet is contacting the side of the chamber. Load a round up and unload it and it has a scuff on one side right in front of the case mouth. This is where the "push a loaded round in to the chamber to see if it sticks" method of checking for lands contact was not showing what was going on at all. The sticking was being caused by the bearing surface being stuck up against the free bore on one side of the chamber. Gonna try to load develop on this thing after thermal season is over.</p><p>Crazy stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bluedog69, post: 3052747, member: 118823"] So this post popped back up in my inbox. Figured I would update. We have cleaned and shot this rifle a fair amount now. What I think is/was the problem is that as the gun starts to get dirty(20 rounds even) you can start to see that one side of the bullet is contacting the lead area. Basically I think it may be a crooked or off center drill job on the barrel or chamber job crooked or maybe a little of both. So with some shooting and cleaning and polishing it is somewhat better now. It doesn't build up crud as fast plus we have been shooting Varget instead of 2200 in it.(Varget cleaner than 2200?) Crazy part is how accurate this thing is. We have done zero load development...lack of time. What is crazy to me is that after cleaning there really isn't a flier. The other day we cleaned it thoroughly then took it out to switch from deer season load to coyote load. It shot a 155 grain fouler round(deer load), two Nolser 110 yote loads with benchmark, and two hornady 110's with Varget all into a 3/4 MOA spot. Which was exactly where we had sighted it in before deer season and before cleaning. I know that is by no means a spectacular group but 3 bullets with a 45 grain spread and two powders with random charges all in the same spot after cleaning. Plus this is the same gun we remounted the thermal onto the rail and it was still dead on at 300 yards. After this starts getting dirtied up good you can see where one side of the bullet is contacting the side of the chamber. Load a round up and unload it and it has a scuff on one side right in front of the case mouth. This is where the "push a loaded round in to the chamber to see if it sticks" method of checking for lands contact was not showing what was going on at all. The sticking was being caused by the bearing surface being stuck up against the free bore on one side of the chamber. Gonna try to load develop on this thing after thermal season is over. Crazy stuff. [/QUOTE]
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