Greetings Adam, I am loading 69 grain match kings ahead of 25 grains of AR2206H which chronographs 2,960 fps and gives excellent accuracy. The LOA is 57.5mm in my 1 in 8"" twist T3x. More important...
Liked On: 24-06-2022, 09:46 PM
Greetings to you both Moa Hunter and Micky Duck, Thank you both for your kind words and advice. I suspect that you both handload out of neccesity and for you the handloading is the prelude to the...
Liked On: 24-06-2022, 06:41 PM
Greetings Moa Hunter, The dies are likely cut to US SAAMI spec but this is out of line with the spec being used in Finland. Unfired and fired Lapua cases from the T3 measure almost the same, both...
Liked On: 24-06-2022, 01:16 PM
Greetings All, As mentioned previously in this thread light firing pin strike and missfires can be different to a lot of different things but it can be due to a combination of things. One thing that...
Liked On: 24-06-2022, 11:45 AM
Greeting Micky Duck. A lot of continental rifles have a 12mm approx dovetail including some of the early Brno .22 rifles. I have heard of some making up an adaptor to take an aperture sight intended...
Liked On: 24-06-2022, 10:15 AM
Greetings All, I bought a Remington Sendero in 7mm SAUM in 2004 with ideas of using it on the Kaweka tops especially around Kiwi Saddle. The following year a Remington VSSF in .223 cuddled up next...
Liked On: 23-06-2022, 11:40 PM
Thanks for your kind words sheep, Those of us who started our hunting when a laser rangefinder was science fiction and scopes were 4 power assumimg you had one were very keen on what we called point...
Liked On: 22-06-2022, 11:17 PM
Greetings sheep, My .308 is sighted in at 172 metres. A handy spot from my bench. Close to dead on from 25 to 50 metres and within 40mm out to 200 metres. I can't think of any reason for sighting in...
Liked On: 22-06-2022, 11:13 PM
Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
Liked On: 22-06-2022, 02:04 PM
Greetings All, A few notes on reduced loads in the .308. There isn't a lot of data about these days for IMR4198 in the .308 but i turned up some max loads from the Dupont 1975/76 and the IMR 2003...
Liked On: 21-06-2022, 08:35 PM
Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
Liked On: 19-06-2022, 08:24 PM
Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
Liked On: 18-06-2022, 06:58 PM
Greetings All, I think that the OP had an answer in the first few replies so the following 70 or so are just an oppurtunity to have a little fun and perhaps get some new ideas along the way. People...
Liked On: 18-06-2022, 01:28 PM
Thankyou akaroa1, Over the past week or so I have developed some coping straregies and have a back up plan of a quiet room with some soothing recordings of rifle fire on the range that I have...
Liked On: 18-06-2022, 10:15 AM
The rifle remins me of my first one. It was a Parker Hale conversion of a No 1 about the same age as yours. The fore end was cut down but otherwise it was standard. In the late 1960's it cost me...
Liked On: 17-06-2022, 06:22 PM