As hunters we will often load 50 or more rounds pre season and may only shoot a small percentage of those and leave the rest. If you are like many, you may have multiple rifles and it might be months or years before you shoot that rifle again.
"Cold welding" is a term that is used when the...
High neck tension most certainly can affect the accuracy and sd. Does it always?....no.
More importantly than the amount of neck tension is the amount of neck clearance. If you are tight and eating into the last few thou of clearance, you're going to have problems.
The day I killed my bear with my pistol my wife and I got into it because I was not leaving without my favorite owb holster. I have practiced with that holster A LOT and felt it necessary for bear country. As fate would have it, later that day I was face to face with a big bear and was able to...
I prefer the 4x nx8 with mil-c. If it is failing light, I push the button.... if it's good light, it works for me. My brain takes me to the middle of the middle automatically and the reticle is right there.
There's a bullet weight difference in bergers with a piece of media stuck in the meplat vs those who are clear.....but it's not enough to matter.....but like the wall thickness here it does potentially make a difference in bullet upset, which matters.
To be fair when the tikka kool-aid was being served, the usual spokespersons said the winchester m70 trigger was un reliable. It's literally the simplest trigger ever made.....and you can visually see the sear faces and measure the engagement. The bolt is the safety.....it's near impossible to fail.
I went to school with one of Hermon Waldron's grandsons and lived near the Biesens. I have always had a spot for those rifles. I have a 98 in 35 Whelen in progress right now.
I like to have a few producers many miles apart. Things happen... fire, bridge problems, missing persons....etc. These are all issues that I have personally had affect my situation.
I bought a ram 5500 4x4 for the extra warm fuzzies with a big pig camper and hooking on our 24' jet boat. Having towed some very heavy loads and seeing how it handles it.....I wouldn't want it any other way. My front axle shaft u joints are bigger than the drive shaft joints on my 2500 cummins...