Well, the red one will be on the market by the end of the day. The rust repairs needed are beyond my interest, budget, and ability. It was a nice gate way drug to get me started into tiny Italian sports cars, but the cream colored car is way better. And I need to make shed space for when my 944 some day returns from the paint guy.
I did Lapua brass, 175SMK, 42gr IMR-4064, WLR and also 43gr Varget.
Rem 700 VSSF 26" I'd get 2650fps - brass didn't last long using the 43gr Varget.
RPR 20" I'd get 2560fps - The only recipe that POS shot sub minute. Lol
My pig load for 150gr bullets is 43.0, IMR-4064 in standard LC brass. It is starting to get a little spicy at that point, but I've got thousands of pieces and no worries if it lasts 2-3 reloads.
43.0 Varget under a 165gr NBT was my deer load for several years. I run 42.8 in LC LR brass under the 175gr SMK for my M24, and it matches the ballistics of M118LR pretty well.
I was told once that lc 5.56 brass was as good as lapua with the caveat that you needed to sort it to find a group with similar capacity and centered flash holes.
I heard that Arkan and Savage are just as good as anything also. If someone says it. Someone is gonna beleive it.
When I tested 20 random 5.56 LC cases many years ago, it was pretty consistent. It shot well too. I was happy about it because I may or may not have picked up a few thousand of them while I was running ranges for the boys.
Lake City 7.62 brass is thick. I'm up to the case neck with 43.0gr IMR-4064. Learned that the hard way after popping a couple primers right off the bat during load development.
Lake City LR brass is just not good. I don't remember the H2O capacity, but my ES across 20 cases was over 1.5gr. No wonder my ES was in the 30s and SD in the teens regardless of how carefully I was loading. 15 years ago the lore around here spoke of the superiority of LC LR brass... but now you'll see recommendations for other stuff done by competitive .308 shooters... and for a reason.
I was told once that lc 5.56 brass was as good as lapua with the caveat that you needed to sort it to find a group with similar capacity and centered flash holes.
I heard that Arkan and Savage are just as good as anything also. If someone says it. Someone is gonna beleive it.
Highest magnification my scope has, as long as the mirage isn't too bad, then about 80%. In rifles I've swapped scopes on, I've seen no appreciable difference between 20 - 36 power when shooting groups at 100. It just takes a little more concentration on centering the reticle at 20 than it does 36.
If I were shooting competitive benchrest, I'd have a different answer.
Probably because people like us, who will spend over $500 on just the scale, only make up 5% or less of reloaders. To us, it seems as though everyone is after such a device because we all live in the echo chamber of the hide, but in reality, we are a small subset of high functioning autistic precision minded reloaders.
I had issues trying to get aics mags to run in both my CDG actions. They're very early, as I got in the first day of pre-orders some years back. If you have the action in hand, just confirm the aics goes up properly into the actions lower mag well.
Pardon my lack of experience. I would need the stock and the bottom metal to verify that fitment, wouldn’t I?
I just picked up my CDG action and have re-watched some of Ted’s videos so at least I know now what that little tab taped to the packing list is for. (Support for front edge of an AICS magazine)
Getting everything together will take some time because I just ordered a Manners Elite Hunter stock last week. That’s a new model - essentially a Pro Hunter with an adjustable comb. 6 months maybe…
