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FatBoy said:

This throat is pissing me off. 105s at 1.720” to ogive are fine. 95SMKs at 1.675” won’t chamber without jamming the bolt out of battery requiring a motor to eject it. It’s pulling bullets occasions as well.

Edit: been doing some testing and the virgin Norma brass dummy’s stick. If I small base size them, they load and eject fine. Oddly enough, the dimensions seem good, and are way under a fired case in OAL to case mouth, and they’re .010” under fired headspace and belt line. Fucking strange… but it’s repeatable so there is something to this.


Case gauge will be here in a couple days, but this shit is frustrating and I’m running out of time to have my shit ready for the event Oct18.


As far as shooting:


105 shot fine. Groups improved over the course of three groups, starting around 1.5 MOA and dropping to under MOA, though in fairness the smallest group was only three shots as I was running out of rounds and needed 600 yard dope.

The four 95SMK I got to shoot went into .77 MOA, so about .8 MOA.

Hits on steel we’re clearly audible to 500, 600 I couldn’t hear but could see impact splash.

I am seriously thinking about throating this thing out about .050” just to be able to mag length and not jam the bullets. At least some bullets besides 80s.

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I wouldn't be scared of hurting anything by throating it out if done properly. We've shot all variants of factory Hornady in +.050 and +.100 throat 6 arc chambers and they have all shot very well, just as they have with the saami throat.

AmmoFort said:

Was it reasonably priced?

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I don't know what he paid? Sold it to me for $750 delivered. If I hired a flatbed tow truck to deliver it, that in itself would have cost me $1K+

Big BD fan here as well. I have the Pro's in my fog pockets and LP4's on the A-pillars, some on my SxS as well—great lights for a good price, folks.

Hayden#69 said:

Wish they were Amber.

Hayden.

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Super easy lens change. I'd buy these, but already have a pair.

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I run H4350 with my Berger 85.5s in my 26" barrel.

Without documentation such as the CMP paperwork, everyone will automatically consider it a put together.

Also, they repo every part on them now and unless you are good with them you will never be able to tell the difference in repo parts vs original. You can Look at the barrel drawing number to see if it's an originla USGI M1D barrel. But it still doesn't mean Ordnace put it together without paperwork. I've owned dozens of loose USGI M1D barrels and screwed them on receivers for friends to shoot in the vintage sniper match. The drawing number of a real USGI M1D barrel would end in "555". The early 1950's M1D barrels you have to remove the handguard to see the 555 on top of the barrel. The 1953 M1D barrels will have the 555 in the barrel channel and visible with the op rod pulled back.

Again, even if it has a USGI barrel that does not mean it was put together by Ordnance without paperwork.

You have to be careful on the M1D as a lot of guys build them with all repo parts. They sell a mount you can machine a regular M1 Barrel to accept and make a clone of a M1D barrel. Then they repo the mount, cheek pad, and scope.

Short of having someone that is good with these look at it, be safe and assume it's all repo. Even if the rifle was real with paperwork, a lot of guys finish them with repo parts. Most of the real M1Ds sold were sold loose and the parts were added later. Some used repo parts as they are much cheaper.

tekmann2377 said:

My rifle is not a custom rifle. It is a Ruger Gunsite Scout with a 1/16 twist and 16" barrel. It shoots pretty well with loads using the 250 FTX. It did not shoot as well with the XTP Mag and 395 SubX. The 250 FTX seems to both feed well and shoot the best of the bullets I have tried. It would meet your accuracy standards but just barely.

I would be satisfied with the velocity and accuracy for deer size game with the 250 FTX and my combo for <200 yards.

My suggestion regarding 308 instead of a 450 BM is that I think the terminal effects, ballistics, and trajectory are better shooting something like a 308 with a 125 Accubond than the typical 450 BM load.

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Have you tried any other subsonic rounds?
How bad was the XTP and SubX?

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Placed the order on the hux flow 9k.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Lawless said:

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You and my wife would get along quite well.

So my buddy who deals with military surplus picked up this Cadillac Bin from Fort Riley.

I bought it from him to store my firewood in.

Had to build an additional roof for it, as it wouldn't last long with 4-1/2 feet of snow sitting on top of it during the Winter.

(816) 283-3334

mr_snipers_hide said:

How are you enjoying it? Where did you manage to find one used? I don’t see many used Tikka’s around thinking of something similar, thanks!

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She's very smooth, and I'm shooting sub MOA at 200 so far. Haven't stretched her legs yet...I found it online

No regrets really, if there was one it would be my first rifle but it's with a friend and he has taught his son on it now so I feel it has a good home. It is a 10/22 ruger purchased in 88 or 89 for right around 100

You are certainly up there in pressure if not over. Trust your primer pockets, not an untuned software.
23.6 is about where I stop testing myself because I know thats where lapua and lc get loose pockets at in a bolt gun. Your crapier brass in a gas gun is a worser case proposition.

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As far as expenses, the beauty of. 458S is the brass life. It does not stretch. I have brass that has been fired 15+ times without annealing or trimming. Primer pockets still tight enough. Not to mention bullet selection is the most versatile. 450 is at home in straight wall hunting states only, IMO.

It'll never be SAAMI approved, and factory ammo is expensive, but worth it.

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450BM won't be SAAMI approved? Or did you mean the 458 SOCOM?
Page 156 in the SAAMI spec

There are a couple of things I like about the 450 BM over the 458 Socom; the first is the brass construction. The parent case of the bushmaster is the 284 Win cut down at the shoulder whereas the 458S is a necked down pistol case, the 50 AE as I recall. The max pressure the brass on the 50 AE handles is about 35ksi-38ksi. However the Bushmaster retains the hardness spec and case web dimensions of the parent 284 Win brass. So it can be loaded to 60ksi

For AR15 use that's a wash because the gun design tops out around 36ksi for both of them (it's slightly better for the BM but not enough to really argue about). In a bolt action though, you can load the Bushmaster HOOOOOOT. For someone hunting in a straightwall area or just trying to prove a point the effective range of the 450BM is significatnly improved over the 458 Socom due to this.

In bolt guns the other nod to the Bushy that I see is the mag feeding. I regularly take a 308 action that is already mag fed and we stick a 450 barrel on it, tweak the mag lips a tiny bit and send it to the owner who can now run a 4 round mag wtih 1 in the chamber in pretty much any straight wall state in the country. The 458 doesn't like to feed as readily from AICS mags with the heavily rebated rim.