carbonbased said:

I’m late to the party and am no competitor, but I am arrived at much the same conclusions, purely derived from chronic neck pain and very high Rx glasses.

Neck pain demanded an upright head, both side-to-side and foreword/back. Very high Rx glasses have a very small sweet spot for clear vision, which coincidentally required the exact same head position as the neck pain did. (Since 2024, cataract surgery largely freed me from the glasses curse)

Add to this “high scope” mix the fact that I cannot stand having my earmuffs contact the stock.

I don’t do prone as it is excruciating to my neck. But bench and tripod had me looking at Olympic shooters with their low buttpads. For me, standing requires a lower heel than bench, which is pretty obvious.

Jowl-weld works for me.

The next stage, perhaps, is the elimination of the stock where the head would ideally go. This would remove any necessity to angle the head at all.

The stock, from the grip on back, could be curved around (or under) the head, with movable supports to help line your head up. Like an articulated and angled/curved cheek rest that comes in from the side.

Sort of like the David Tubb pic posted earlier. That would be an example of a “curved-under” stock…I could see moving the bore closer to the scope a bit, however, especially for the bench.
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Like the Tubb chin gun, I sort of think someone has already been down this road before and we just aren’t aware of it.

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Schütze said:

They are often out of stock.

If you use a resized case, fire formed in your chamber and cut the neck in half like in the above picture you could obtain the exact measurement for trim length. Easy and quick.

If the neck tension is slightly higher on the case you can get the bullet touching the lands measurement as well at the same time.

I usually have at least one dummy rd for each bullet per caliber anyway. Makes it easier to troubleshoot an issue if there is one down the road for me.

Lot’s of guys seem to be fine with just notes, I prefer the above dummy rd as well, just for comparison of all case dimensions.

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Kamerad said:

Depending on what kind of scenario a user would need to rapidly un-ass a rifle under sling tension, wouldn’t a knife or strap cutter be an option, allowing the sling mount to be robust and uncomplicated? I say that assuming a knife is already readily available in such a scenario.

Gross motor skill vs fine?

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PreciseLoad said:

@Johnerz : This weekend is a long one here in Germany. I’m planning to add most of the remaining Vihtavuori propellants. N555 is definitely on the list. So, unless something unexpected comes up, I’ll be publishing an update.

If you’d like to start simulating some loads already, I’ve added a placeholder powder called Z555 to the database. It’s still completely untested and not fine-tuned (so it might be off), but many other powders have worked well right from the start. So feel free to give it a try now, or wait for the proper release this weekend.

Best,
Bene

PS: @R_A_W : Last weekend, I actually implemented the cartridge designer you suggested. It allows you to select the parent case, draws a picture, estimates the case capacity and so on. It’s still in beta and not yet publicly available, but in my own tests, it’s been bug-free so far.

If you’d like to try it out, just send me a message with the email address you used for Precise Load. I’d be happy to invite you to test the feature.

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CK1.0 said:

I must not be reading the same thread or missed it… I think it’s been mentioned they’d like to have loaners available at some point, but don’t recall that being a thing just yet?

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zaprosper said:

In discussion with a seller in Canada, even the Gen 1 version has been rock solid. This is in contrast to the 4.5-28, which has had a variety of different issues and doesn't appear to be as robust a design as the 5-42.

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