Recent content by Clark

I made a scope rail for a #1 out of a Tapco ar15 riser [anodized aluminum weaver rail]

From the rooftops... Ruger #1 is great

My 7mmSTW rifles kick too hard.

WIth a throater, I have made a 260 Rem rifle 120 gr NBT at 3.1" OAL for more power and more accuracy. Last year's shot a 1" (3) shot group @200 yards on sight in, and then shot a deer. I had to make a throater extender to fit up in the chamber.

#1 for me is Nosler ballistic tip hunting bullet in 6mm 95 gr, .257 115 gr, 6.5mm 120gr 7mm 140 gr, 308 125 gr I will also hunt with #2 Nos Accubond or #3 Hornady SST. They are probably just as good, but I only have a few kills with them.

The evolution of my 260 builds over the last 9 years.

Making wildcat dummy.... like a longer 450 Raptor

I got AMZN for $10/share in 2001, after my little boy told me to.. he saw Bezos talking with Cavuto on fox news. 10 years ago my little boy had grown and was a software engineer at AMZN. I told him not to sell the stock options. He made his first million at age 29.

I have had great accuracy with Boyds tacticool stocks: 1) 223 in sav 110 with aluminum pillars I made 2) 7mmRM in Rem 700 with Whidden aluminum V block I bought. 3) 6.5-06 in DuMoulin Mauser with long Aluminum bedding block I made. Smallest groups ever with 223. Other 2 rifles killed deer...

I have a 1953 win M70 in 308 and it is a short action, in the sense it would be very hard to convert to a long action.

More powder, more powder in a load work up.. until short brass life.. back off 6% normal powder or 3% for temperature insensitive powder. I have been doing this for a long time with a lot of guns.

I have ordered Lapua brass 10 times between 2009 and 2021. I have never seen the slightest defect. I have never had a problem with Nosler brass, either. Win and RP brass take extra preparation time.

I bought a Howa in 2005. I have not rebarrelled it yet. I have rebarrelled Arisakas with metric threads [have to get my hands dirty switching gears in the lathe], but not the Howa... yet. Metric threads is something I do not look forward to.

When I do hot loads in a pistol cartridge, I have to use rifle primers to keep working up higher in pressure... once the pistol primers start piercing. From 2005 range testing: 0) 45 acp....................... 185 gr 7.6 gr AA#5 jams w/stock Patriot spring 1) 45 acp........................185...

I have a 1935 Win model 52 with G.Titherington barrel Wright-Allen trigger Weitek Vaver rear sight 13.5 lb. In 7 years, I have not managed to shoot ANY 13 pound rifles.