Recent content by cooper_257

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    Elk Hunting Rifles, What are you Using?

    Tikka with a manners stock and a Bartlein barrel 6.5 4S. 143 EDX 986 yards
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    Elk Hunting Rifles, What are you Using?

    30 Nosler with Berger 245 EOL. 747 yards.
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    Elk Hunting Rifles, What are you Using?

    416 Taylor with barnes 350gr ttsx works good on elk
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    New Contest Starting Now! This Target Haunts Me

    When I was in college my brother and I stored our rifles at my grandparents. we got a chance to go antelope hunting so we went and grabbed a couple of our rifles and went hunting. we had verified zero with them a few weeks prior. I found a really nice antelope buck and snuck in on him and got...
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    Bartlein vs PVA Osprey

    I have had PVA do prefits on Bartlein they were great. I have a couple of there Osprey carbon prefits and they are great also. hear are a couple of groups from the carbon Ospreys with there Cayuga hunting bullets during load development. the one is a 3 round group with 6.5 4S and the other...
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    Pre Fit Smiths

    I have had great shooting prefits from Patriot Valley Arms Altus Bugholes and Bartlein
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    SOLD 30 nosler sale- Brass dies and guages

    I will take the brass per our conversation
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    Short Carbon Fiber Barrels

    I have a 16.5" Patriot valley arms Osprey CF prefit barrel in 6.5 Creedmoor and it is awesome. It is really easy to load for and really accurate. Patriot valley arms and proof will be liter than the Bartlein CF barrels. I have ran lots of Bartlein barrels in stainless steel LH gain twist and...
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    Reloading Equipment Redding Blowout

    6.5 Creedmoor dies received. seller is good to go. Quick smooth transaction.
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    223 vs 22 arc 16” for ranch rifle

    My favorite Coyote rifle is a 16.5" 223 suppressed. My favorite Coyote bullet out of it is the 53gr Vmax with IMR 8208 xbr pushing it at 3400fps. Smacks the shit out of coyotes and does really well out to 500yds.
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    What FPS are you getting out of your 16" barrel 6.5 creedmoor?

    I didn't see pressure signs till 2880fps. Then just slight ejector swipe. bolt lift was fine. this was with the 130tmk
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    What FPS are you getting out of your 16" barrel 6.5 creedmoor?

    6.5 CM in a 16.5" PVA Osprey carbon barrel with Varget and peterson srp brass with 130 TMK 2820fps with SD 0f 3 and shooting in the .2s. 135 JLK in the same barrel with varget doing 2750fps.
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    Reloading Equipment Redding Blowout

    I will take the 6.5 Creedmoor dies per our PM
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    Win an RIX Storm S3 Thermal Imaging Scope!

    rock lake range and Idaho back country