You compact it enough and it won’t compact anymore and you can’t hit your proper lengths. Actually start crushing powder and you make more sirface area which makes it burn faster.
Also, sometimes it can push the bullet back out a bit depending on your neck tension.
Nothing inherently bad by compaction on its own.

PrimoLuvr said:

Do you have any observations on brass re-sizing for this Geissele chamber vs a CLE?

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No.... fire some ammo through it that has the brass you plan to run, then set your FL Die to bump the shoulder .003

This should honestly be your procedure for any PRECISION Gan Gun.

Also make sure to check neck tenion, if it's too loose the projectiles will slide forward jamming into the lands.

I do this by making some dummy rounds with the resized brass and chambering them with the bolt release a few times to make sure nothing has changed your COAL.

bax said:

yeah, okay but I'm not doing case volumes with water for 20 cases so I can make a comment on this board. AND, I would have to put primers into the Lapua which I don't want to do. If I did it right, I would make sure they were all trimmed to the same length - wot I am not doing either Funny thing, the Lake City was just annealed and sized so the outside dimensions are essentially identical. I can't say the same for the Lapua. When you start to think about comparisons things get complicated pretty fast. Same thing I said earlier about pressures.

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Why not collect the rest of, and more relevant data? That's like punching your load into your powder thrower and not measuring the result.

I don't do it to "make comments", I do it so I know what I'm working with.

Or, just don't measure anything and keep on keeping on. You do you.

Sold, thank you!

Different eyes see and perceive things differently, so get behind them all and give them a try if you can.

out of the 3, I think i've had good luck with Swarovski/Kahles over the year, the crew in RI is top notch. with Burris/Steiner, I couldn't get an older 1.5-6x42 Steiner serviced, but otherwise, never had any issues. Been a while since I had to deal with Schmidt and Bender, not sure what it'll be like with Jerry gone.

There was a time that I only used clamp ons because of a belief that set screws could mess up accuracy. Then I had it in my head that clamp ons could affect accuracy by squeezing the barrel.

Now, I just use knurled cup point set screws tightened to where the Allen key starts to bend and I dont go nuts with the torque on clamp ons. They both do they job. I do, however, prefer a clamp on gas block if it serves as a front sight mount.

diggler1833 said:

Definitely not going to 'poo-poo' on your data man, as I appreciate your comparison.

However, I found years ago that case weight is surprisingly not as good an indicator of volume as I would have thought. H2O capacity has been the way I turned to about 15-20 years ago for my layman's approach.

My LC LR brass is all '12 headstamp. I actually had two different weight ranges. Most of the cases were like yours, but I had at least three (IIRC) that were about a full five grains heavier - the kind of result that makes you stop and start re-weighing stuff. Even though those cases were heavier, the case volumes were in the same range as the other 17.

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yeah, okay but I'm not doing case volumes with water for 20 cases so I can make a comment on this board. AND, I would have to put primers into the Lapua which I don't want to do. If I did it right, I would make sure they were all trimmed to the same length - wot I am not doing either Funny thing, the Lake City was just annealed and sized so the outside dimensions are essentially identical. I can't say the same for the Lapua. When you start to think about comparisons things get complicated pretty fast. Same thing I said earlier about pressures.

Supporting my friend Jody up near Asheville

I like drills, and think that they are a good tool for improving yourself *in very specific areas. Bonus that you have a way to measure your improvement.

I did my fair share of (basic) pistol stuff when I was a (basic) pistol and rifle marksmanship instructor. Nothing however improved my abilities to hit moving targets or shoot from unusual circumstances like moving out to the ranch. I got humbled a few times by skunks, armadillos etc... when I was trying to chase one through obstacles and put an end to their life.

Practice makes better (usually), and I'm perfectly confident in my abilities now to jump out of a still slowly moving SxS , draw and hit your average moving armadillo at about 20 yards. Past that it gets iffy unless I'm slow-firing at a stationary target. Or shoot a snake in the head at ___ yards... blah, blah, blah, hopefully you get my point.

Still haven't been put under the stress of having an armadillo or skunk shoot back... heaven help us all if we get to that point.

Bumpttt

I've never had issue holding while i engage the zero stop. depending on the scope. Guess you just have to rezero, I would for piece of mind anyway. on the older scopes, you used to be able to hold it with an allen wrench or screw driver while setting the zero stop. on the poi shift, probably obvious and might be silly mentioning it, but was your barrel hot? don't here it's hard to zero and shoot groups because barrels get hot quick then take forever to cool down because of the humidity.

misterpee said:

First time I went to the range with my new rifle I didn’t quite get the accuracy I was expecting (which honestly wasn’t that much). Next time I decided to try single feeding my rounds into the chamber to see if it made a difference and things went much better with things hovering around moa when I did my part

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Were you single feeding in a manner that resulted in the bolt locking back rather than going back into battery? I'm asking because the recoil impulse is different and I'm of the mind that a fault in your follow through can be exacerbated but the full cycling of the action.

I don't think that anyone is saying that all ammo in all ARs will shoot better when single fed. You just get better results with some rigs shooting some ammo.

I typically only single fed when running ammo that was too long for the magazine.

sirhrmechanic said:

Had some YouTube documentaries playing today and just happened to notice the number of 'vaccine' shot ads were on... Fly shot, Pnumococcal pneumonia for seniors, HPV virus for teens, more that I can't remember. How many shots are kids/adults having pushed on them by doctors and pharmaceutical marketers? How many people are getting some 'new' shot every time they turn around?

And who has tested these shots, especially when taken together? Does anyone have any CLUE about what kind of chemical or, worse, immune system soup they are creating?

Autism? IMHO, just a drop in the bucket of chronic illness, early death, alzheimers, cancers... and a ton of other shit. Oh and all that shit... makes the medical community hundreds of billions every year.

Follow the money.

Sirhr

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People are under the assumption that vaccines are tested. Double blind large tests to be sure that there are no adverse effects.

They’re not. Not at all.

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