If you guys have sore patella tendons, stretch your hamstrings and heels cords well and regularly. I had tendonitis years ago and my orthopedic surgeon drew a diagram and showed me that when your hamstrings are tight, your leg doesn't fully extend with each step, and that puts more stress on...
Don't know if you chose your gunsmith yet, but another alternative is to ship your barreled action to a barrel maker that will chamber and install your barrel. I had my 6.5-06 AI done by Pacnor, and it's prabably my most accurate rifle. WIth turnkey, you essentially eliminate a step so...
The training mask won't help with elevation. It may help work out the muscles you use to breath like your diaphragm, but that's about it. If you read the literature for any of the products that restrict your breathing, you'll see that the makers are very careful to avoid claiming any benefits...
There's some good advice here but Chuck Hawks apparently has no business evaluating "Ultra long range" or "long range" rifles.
If he's talking about selecting a cartridge for the average hunter who is not going to go beyond MPBR that's one thing, but anyone who would evaluate and discuss "ultra...
+1. And I'm just curious as to whether any of the posters have connections to guiding services or similar services that are paid for relating to hunting?
Don't know on the primers. Just FYI, a 5 mph difference in wind at 300 yards can cause about a 3-inch difference in POI with your set-up.
Also, smarter guys than me have said that the "normal" pressure indicators that you can see or feel like ejecor slot marks on the case head or hard bolt...
I enjoy the process too, but I load for a bunch of different rifles and I don't shoot competitively so I don't need to squeeze that last little bit of accuracy out of my loads. I try to limit the operations I use to those that make a difference in the level of accuracy I need; if I can get a...
I hear you, I tend towards good quality brass and bushing dies too. But I guess my question was more along the lines of whether you had actually observed any fall off in accuracy with the 0.2 grain spread in charge weight? I'm assuming we're talking big-game rifles?
Whisky, I'm curious as to what kind of cartridges/rifles you're seeing problems with a 0.1 grain variation, what kind of accuracy you're looking for, and any estimate you can give on how much your accuracy is degrading with the 0.1 grain variation? This is a subject that interests me, thanks.
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For ladder testing, you're looking for vertical dispersion due to differences in velocity. You won't normally see that at 100 yards so most people shoot ladder tests at 300 or so to get the vertical dispersion required for a good ladder test. If you can get vertical dispersion, basically what...
Bolt face differences aside, the .308 is a great round, as are the other cartridges in the family. Like the OP, I have magnums in the safe but any more I find myself reaching for the .308 or a wildcat built on the '06 case because they're "big enough," more pleasant to shoot, easier/cheaper to...
Thanks for the compliments. Dave, it's a McMillan Hunter's Edge, and I bought the Bergers a while back. The first ones down this barrel will be 150 grain Ballistic tips loaded in Nosler 280 AI brass with 7828 and 4831, and 139 Hornady's to fireform some regular .280 brass. Then I'll try some...