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Re: Looking for a Remington short action check gunbroker.com

Re: Reloading bench??? What are you using?? I glued scrap ply to hardwood ply and braced under with some cross pieces of white board. I then made 90 degree legs 3"x3" and attached those to the edge of the ply and filled in the rest of the ply edge with white board and then routed with a...

Re: Looking for reloading equipment If you are going to load for an AR in bulk I have three words for you...power case trimmer. Other than that get the Lyman (or similar) reloading book and spend time reading through online tutorials about reloading to see if you still want to do it...

Re: Which Progressive Press for Rifle Cartridges? I have the Hornady LnL AP. Its easy to use and quick to change over. It doesn't do best on stick powder, but its deviation is small enough that it is fine for my normal loading. My neighbor sports a Dillon 650 with all the trimmings and he...

Re: Barnes TTSX I would imagine you are loading Barnes for hunting so think "practical" as Bugg said. I would load the new brass with the minimum load first to fire form the case and then start working a load up from there. I don't concern myself with how far my hunting load is from the...

Re: Rem SPS varmint stock bump

Re: Anybody have any data for 18 or 20'' 308 barrels? You might want to look at the impact of short barrels on .308 loads...it takes something like 18.5 - 20 inches (if I remember right) for the powder to burn completely depending on the powder. If you load with slower burning powders an 18"...

Re: Gun Safe Yeah, Graffunder also looked really solid but as I recall the price put them out of my range.

I have a B&C medalist A3 on my SPS, however, it weighs in around 42 ounces so its pretty heavy to lug around. I can't find any other drop in stocks that fit the heavy barrel that are much lighter other than the A1 at 37 ounces. Anyone know of a light weight drop that would fit? Short action...

Re: Gun Safe I did a lot of research into this, Sturdy Gun Safes won out for price and performance. Not the prettiest, but protects a lot better for a lot less than competitors. I just need to save up and buy one now. Most safes out there have too thin of steel. The Liberty Colonial has...

Re: brass life Hummer...good info. I will see what I can use to extend my case life with my jumbo factory Rem 700 until I get the time and money to get it to a rifle smith to work it over.

Re: new .308 brass headspace Thanks guys, I had an over pressure round that I thought was headspace so really looked into the details on that only to discover my loading was good, my observation skills sucked...a piece of military brass got into my collection and proved that you really do...

I just bought new .308 brass from Winchester for the first time since my spent casing collection ran out. I measured headspace and found many casings at 1.622. This seems excessively under headspaced to me given minimum case headspace is 1.627. My fire formed cases indicate my Rem 700 has a...

Re: .308 round had a problem It could have hung fired but it would have only been a fraction of a second. It was a new Sierra matchking 168 because I have no originality in bullet choice . Good thought but I couldn't imagine a Sierra being too large and it wasn't pulled so gtg there...

Re: .308 round had a problem So busy it's hard to find time to get pictures up but I will. This was handloaded on federal or Winchester (at work so can't check now) cycled about 7 times on the same rifle. Loaded with 42.7 H4895. My hornady lock n load never varies much more than .2 gr at the...