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Recent content by exx1976

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    Reloading comopnent & ammo inventory app for Android

    Not sure if anyone here has seen this yet, so I figured I'd post it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...adersinventory There's also a free version (full-featured, but limited # of items stored) if you want to test drive it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...inventory.free
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    Action/barrel recommendations

    Turbo - Chad's "group buy" in on services only - you have to provide your own action and barrel, so it's hardly a "group buy on barreled actions".... The group buy on the BO Actions is..... Expensive? like $200 per unit higher than what's listed on BO's website? Makes no sense! Not to...
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    Action/barrel recommendations

    I'd really rather not do anything to the action/barrel that I currently have. I'm going to put it back into some lightwieght/factoryish stock and use it as a hunting rifle, so that rules that out. It seems that many of the decent actions are around the $1100-1200 range then? So, if we add...
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    Action/barrel recommendations

    I'm planning to get an action and barrel this winter to replace my factory stuff. Availability is of some importance to me, I'd like to be able to begin shooting it by... March-ish, perhaps? Requirements: Based on a Remington 700 Short Action so it fits my current stock (AICS 2.0) and...
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    How to improve SD?

    I'm measuring from the ogive, and they are all DEAD on to one another. I have some Winchester primers here, I'll give those a shot next. Hard to find much else right now...
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    How to improve SD?

    Here's a string from a load I worked up. String 10 1) 2444.0 -16.9 2) 2447.0 -13.9 3) 2453.0 -7.9 4) 2441.0 -19.9 5) 2433.0 -27.9 6) 2486.0 25.1 7) 2471.0 10.1 8) 2517.0 56.1 f 9) 2467.0 6.1 10) 2480.0 19.1 11) 2475.0 14.1 12)...
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    Intial load work up, .223 - 69gn HPBT - Pressure Signs?

    I load 69gr SMKs in Lake City brass with Tula AR primers and 25.2gr of CFE-223 for use in a 20" Lilja 1:8. My AR loves them. They are loaded to mag length. No pressure signs, chrono says: String 4 1) 2701.0 -7.2 2) 2715.0 6.8 3) 2716.0 7.8 4) 2700.0 -8.2 5)...
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    Primers

    PV is good to go. To the guy who asked if he should quit his job to hit F5 on the pages.. In essence, yes. In January I ordered 25k Tula AR primers (including shipping and hazmat they cost me $22.65 per thousand). They showed up about 5 weeks after the order was placed. Since then...
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    Rem 700 bolt damage?

    Looks just like my 700. It'll smooth out a little over time with use.
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    Primers

    Really? You just started reloading within the past few months, haven't you...
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    Primers

    Safest way is to work up again. I would drop the starting charge by 10% if it were me. Or, depending on the powder/bullet, you could look in a load book. For example, with W748, most load books list a magnum primer load.
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    Primers

    If you're not hurting on components, then paying $60/k seems like a VERY poor investment to me. Especially if you are "hurting on...money", as you stated.
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    Range Report Took my new rifle to the range today.

    Really? I hope you read loadbooks closer than you do 'hide posts....
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    Range Report Acoustic chronograph

    I'm guessing this is what he was talking about? https://www.riflesonly.com/pro-shop/superchrono.html For $400 it damnwell better be revolutionary. That's more than twice the cost of my CED M2, and that has never failed to register a shot...
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    Range Report Took my new rifle to the range today.

    Seems like there's plenty more to go there for you with the 168 AMAX. I also have a 20" AAC-SD, and I chrono'd factory AMAX Match so I could figure out dope to 600 with it when I used it (before I started reloading for .308 - I'm using the brass frmo those factory rounds). A 20-round string of...