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    Out of the box problems with my ZCO 527

    Another story from old guy about arrogance. It's good for a grin, an eye roll, and a karma sort of thing but otherwise useless. I WAS THAT GUY. First programming job, back in the heyday of IBM mainframes. Total newbie. I was tasked with creating a very simple program to read and format data...
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    6Mm GT load. Any help appreciated.

    I started 6BR with Alpha brass, Varget, and CCI450 primers. You're golden there. (I won't buy Varget anymore; Vihtavuori N150 is way cheaper and has doen great so far.) Variety of bullets, including your Berger 105 Hybrids. All have done fine. I'd advise against putting all your chips on data...
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    6Mm GT load. Any help appreciated.

    More info needed. Powder? Primer? Brass? How many times fired? Brass prep process, especially how the case necks are resized? What scale are you using? I agree that your ES values are high. Fwiw, if I get an ES of around 30 and SD under 10 over dozens or hundred of rounds, I'm satisfied. The...
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    Out of the box problems with my ZCO 527

    This thread contains a sequence of back&forth repeated all too often on SH, often involving the same screen names. Once upon a time, I was the senior guy on a newly-formed 6-person system support team. Also on the team were two younger but very competent guys and a not-very-competent but very...
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    Need UPS for FX120i

    What is the ambient humidity in your reloading room? I'm just trying to figure out how static is coming into play. Here in central NC, average humidity inside our house is lowest in cold, dry winter periods... but even in the driest periods, I've never had a drift issue. But it's never as low...
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    223 Rem Bolt/Trainer Loads

    I've compared all three (CCI 400, 450, BR4). I am quite content with -400s for my .223 bolt rifles; even the spicier IMR-8208XBR loads didn't cause excessive primer flattening. ES/SD values simply did not justify the added expense at all.
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    Rifle Scopes Interesting observation

    ^^^ This. If someone were to give me a Send-It level or two, I'm sure I'd try them out. But I can't bring myself to pay even even 40% off for one when plain ol' Vortex bubble levels for $40 apiece get the job done and are easily visible from my cheek weld. [Hopefully Frank doesn't see this and...
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    223 Rem Bolt/Trainer Loads

    I am totally OVER buying Hodgdon powder for reloading because of the price. I've gone to Vihtavuori, N135 for .223 and N150 for 6BR. I still have a full jug of H4350 for 6.5CM (seldom shot anymore) for which I paid under $300... While advice from @spife7980 is usually golden, I will disagree on...
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    Ultrasonic cleaners

    I'm a bit early along with my ultrasonic cleaner experience (see "recomendations" thread here). I bought mine for suppressor cleaning. Experience so far: A friend gave me a jug of Hornady One Shot Sonic Clean Solution Gun Parts Formula. It is toxic - contains dipropylene glycol n-propyl ether...
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    22lr maintenance

    👆👆👆This (Vudoo method). C4-soak patch in the leade for 10 minutes, wipe off bolt as needed while leade soaks, push wet patch through bore twice, two dry patches, done. Takes about 15 minutes. The Vudoo video talks about keeping the "seasoning" intact in the bore. I believe in this. Indeed...
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    DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

    @RAVAGE88 Acknowledging accuracy as highest priority in any new development, I do hope the magazine can have a follower button to facilitate loading, especially Lapua rounds in summer. Thanks from the arthritic-handed septuagenarian.
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    Does anyone else get frustrated reloading

    This. Same rifle, but heavy-barrel .25-06. No deer, but a fair number of groundhogs with 87-grain spitzer at 3400fps (according to Speer #7). ------- Let's talk "precision" and getting the job done. Decades ago at a skeet shoot, a guy was selling a Remington 1100 that interested me. Saturday...
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    Best Sub $750 optic for target and varmint - 2025

    My bad on the Midas TAC. I just googled it and looked at the first thing that came up. I've only messed with one of those, and it was several years ago. I thought it was decent then, but I was early along in my rifle journey and running Vortex Viper PSTs. The main purpose of this longish post...
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    Best Sub $750 optic for target and varmint - 2025

    Not sure why you're looking at a Midas TAC (30mm tube, 1:4 magnification ratio) when you specified 34mm tube and 5-25x (1:5 ratio) and you have a $750+ budget. I and a couple of my match buddies have compared the Vortex Strike Eagle 5-25x56 to one of my gen-3 Razor 6-36x56, my ZCO 527, and a...
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    Suppressors Ultrasonic cleaner: Recommendation(s)?

    The only CLR use case I have right now is on the first inch forward of the chamber and the muzzle of my stainless barrels. I used to use it in the entire bore until I discovered that a putting a thick C4-wet patch on a cleaning jag one caliber smaller than bore size works wonders, without the...
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