XTCBoltAction said:

Personally, I'd want to shoot a few more groups single loaded to see if it repeated.
Groups shot from a machine rest will vary a bunch from really small to rather large with most groups near the middle of the range. I'm thinking this is not new news but the one .146 group could simply be one of the really small groups.

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I thought the same thing. Didn't shoot several... Only one more 5 shot group, single feed.... It measured 0.176...

454308 said:

I assume the contract mount is 1.54 centerline?

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Yes

trlrman said:

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From what I can make out in this picture of yours, it appears the center of the flame in pointing at the shoulder-body junction??? It's recommended that it should be pointing to the neck-shoulder junction where the neck can take on the heat the fastest and the most grain structure change.

If "3 1/2 -4 count" is like 3 1/2 -4 seconds . . . that's far from enough time to do much of anything for a decent annealing job. Looking at that flame (I know the lighting is hiding a lot), even 5-6 seconds isn't going to do a whole lot. When I used a flame like that one and left the brass in until I was a color change (about 5 seconds), I found my necks were much harder than I hoped. . . way harder than virgin Lapua brass, which is the standard I try to reach. I switched to a swirl flame for more heat and looked for a glow and dropped the cases out the moment it began to glow (as seen in a darkened room), which as still 5 to 6 seconds for .308 cases. Those cases got a little better, but still not down to that standard I'm looking for. That's when I upped my time to 9-10 seconds (experimenting first with some range brass) and found that amount of time brought the hardness a little below the standard I was after, but . . . the sizing afterward brought it up to what I was looking for.

The swirl flame torch head provided some extra heat over the pencil flame, but the thing I like best about it is the flame surrounds the neck all the way to include the side opposite the torch head. That provide very even results around the whole neck and shoulder. Here's a picture of how I've got my unit set up and how it's aimed to get the annealing in the right place:

Rocketmandb said:

Before I got my AMP, I made my own flame annealer apparatus. I perfected annealing on that thing - I still think it was as good or better than what I get on the AMP (the AMP is a ton easier and quicker, though). I'm going to call out something @straightshooter1 wrote:

"Like I'm at 9-10 seconds in the flame"

The longer your annealing time, the less opportunity for variance. By pulling the flame back and lengthening the time, you might find some additional consistency.

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Ah yes . . . with longer time there's more revolutions for the neck to get heated uniformly. I really feel going to a swirl flame provided additional consistency to the time in it.

earthtrekker1775 said:

Robots:
"Ex Machina"
"Terminator"
"Terminator 2"

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Don't forget Robot Jox where the Earth is a mostly-wasteland and instead of wars they have arena battles with huge robots

Pete Cefalu said:

It’s from Capstone. I’m fairly certain they are using QL as well, but slightly different inputs(?). I started a profile with Gordon’s Reliading Tool, but have more work to do. I have a 36” on order and I’ll probably send a few dummies for them to chamber with. No time rite now and bbl is on back side of hill.

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That's from Berger, but it's not from QL, it's from an actual test barrel.

Historically there has been a very effective technique in this country to ensure everyone is civil but we have gotten away from that.

Outpost

Pontypool

Wouldn't it be great if everyone learned to be civil?

Frank said to keep my head down

Barneybdb said:

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USS Franklin March 19, 1945. Survived. Essex class. No Essex class carrier was lost in WW2

Snuby642 said:

Blood pressure meds.

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??? common ones are cheap around here. on them and won't use anything without a long safety hx.

newageroman said:

I see where I went wrong in terminology - I used 'zeroing rifle for yardage' vs 'zeroing scope for yardage'

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Nah. Stop using "zeroing" as your verb. Thats why everyone is having fun in this thread. Zeroing is the wrong word.

You zero your rifle once, then you're done zeroing (until you change your ammo, etc). After that, you're DIALING.

If you want to keep your scope dialed with your 600 yard drop, that's fine. Most people are telling you it's a bad idea and have explained why, but if you really want to keep it dialed to 600, that's your decision. Just don't call it zeroing.

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'Don't want Bruce to die': This boy loves his Pokémon cards. But he sold them to save his dog's life, and donations are pouring in.

When Bryson, an 8-year-old boy from Lebanon, Virginia, adopted Bruce, a now 4-month-old black lab mix puppy, they quickly became best friends.

www.usatoday.com

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his parents should be congratulated for their excellent work in putting on that path.

Blood pressure meds.

JR1200W3 said:

You'll know as soon as you shoot it. Curious to see how it turns out

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I’ll make some build pics in this thread.

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HardRockARC said:

As a former Beretta USA employee who got to shoot and test the first Ace centerfire rifles, I gave them sooooo much feedback. They literally listened to nothing. All the things you’re griping about are all things I wrote up and presented to the product managers at Beretta USA who were driving this rifle. But like most products under the Beretta umbrella, no one really listens or cares. It’s about revenue, not making products customers actually want. Hence why I’ve moved on from Beretta. So many great ideas die there.

Not releasing AICS magazine bottom metal at release was one of the biggest mistakes too.

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I'm not expecting anything but I did tell the rep that I wouldn't recommend that people buy the T1x ACE which he was a bit taken back by.

For better or worse I'm using the rifle (it wasn't my first choice) for IPRF factory division in August.
After that I'll put my 26" barreled action in the chassis and see how it goes in the form I think it should be, and give my feed back after that.

That said if I run into firing pin breaking issues again (had two break in my other Tikka) I'll be 100% done with Tikka rimfires regardless.

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By the looks of it, I think it’s good. The OEM looks bigger. I just used my Seekins Reciever set for my 6ARC. My 18” proof 223 barrel I’ll be putting into the Ridgeline Reciever set will have a fixed GB. I’ll prolly go with BCM because that seems to be small and quality.

Danimal35 said:

Most of the threads I’ve searched mostly refer to Wylde or AI when you start talking about anything bigger than 77s.

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What's wrong with data for the Wylde chamber?

Yep

I owned all of them. The MPA Matrix Pro II is more expensive than the Envy Pro. But if money wasn't a concern at all then yeh the Matrix Pro II with the competition (lightweight) rear is probably what I would do (that's what I have now)