Recent content by Dutch308

I butchered my Redding comp seating die sleeve to make it work on my 1050 loading 308.

The RPR 338 Lapua is my favorite rifle too. I’ve owned it since 2019 and I’ve been through 1500 or so rounds by now (over 800 since July 2023). Got tired of waiting for the Triggertech trigger and got a Timney, glad I didn’t wait any longer (curved, prefer the straight on my 6.5 RPR), Vortex G3...

To me it’s simple; I’ve got this divine AMP box sitting on my reloading bench and all I have to do is sacrifice 1 piece of brass to the gods of ES and SD to give all other cases a long and healthy life. I don’t need no scientific proof to be a believer. The way this box is helping me to keep the...

The EC tuner brake appears to work as a brake and as a tuner. Bad thing is now I need more of them :) I did stop at “8” for now as that seemed to print a 1-hole(ish) kind of group at 100 and moved to 200.

Well, if nothing else the muzzle got a good cleaning after I removed the factory brake. Crazy amount of baked on carbon…. Btw…. Mr Cortina shipped within a few hours of ordering.

Yes, my dehumidifiers are also set for 40%. Great minds, huh? :p I can get N170 only in 1Lbs containers, so they don’t last long after opening. I’m probably 1300 rounds into the factory barrel, the plan is to get an LRI barrel at some point. That said, you did convince me to try the EC tuner...

Yes. Like I mentioned, I did not have much time to play around and I think it can do better yet. Observing the process it seemed that both bulk and fine go “overboard” easily and 1 kernel appears to be .02, so tweaking both bulk and fine helps to make sure that at the end pulse is getting used...

Thanks, that helps. I anneal my brass (AMP) after every firing. I bump my shoulders very little (Triebel FL die). Using RCBS Precisioin Mic fired cases (Lapua) read 0.001 and I set the shoulder back to 0.000, I measure my powder with the ST and the press is a Turban. Seating with Redding Comp...

I’ve been thinking about it for my RPR 338. Is the EC as effective as a brake as the factory Ruger brake? I don’t mean to start another debate about how many rounds it takes to prove it works as a tuner (or not…), but do you tune for charge or for velocity? I’ve noticed that when I find the...

94.0gr of N170. Let AI figure it out first. After some fiddling, I adjusted bulk offset to 1.3 and fine to 0.14 Never had 80% success rate before. More tweaking probably would help, but this is doable.

My main reason for the ST was AI. I didn’t want to have to learn all these parameters myself and spend all my time experimenting and tuning rather than reloading. I can handle watching the slow and fast settings 1 time for a new powder to make sure something is coming out and powder is not...

In all honesty… It kind of ruins every other scope I own - a way bigger step up from the PST G2 than I imagined.

Geez. I don’t know if you saved me money or cost me money Glassaholic. With my informal 200y shooting, the Razor gen3 with 15% off at Midway is too hard to beat. Ive been looking at the ATACR and March seems to tout about the mirage capabilities of their 5-42x FX. Your review however convinced...

Sometimes you just end up staring at the ST in disbelief, the 3rd time I was composed enough to take a picture….