Recent content by richardca99

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the feedback--very useful.

Is that photo showing the 0.856 APA on both the 42 and 50mm? If so, I assume that you couldn't even run a lens cover on the 50mm?

Just curious...could you have gotten away with lower, or is that what you needed for clearance?

Does anyone have experience mounting an ATACR 4-16x50 F1 on a pic rail with low or medium rings? The rifle is a GAP with a Defiance CRF short action, pic rail, and a #3 Bartlein contour. Unfortunately, I'm on deployment and can't access the rifle to take measurements. What's the likelihood I...

IMO, the average guy is going to see loose primer pockets far more often than split necks and 1,000 times more often than case head separation. When the pockets get loose, it’s time to go. Of course, I only shoot good brass, so YMMV with the cheap stuff.

RL-15 is king, but 4064, 4350, and Varget are popular...as is 4895. I'm going to try RL-17. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's a pretty solid endorsement. Any idea on the Jewel question above?

One thing I neglected to consider when ordering was whether or not the mini chassis bottom metal will work with a Jewel trigger or whether I'll have to do some inletting.

On Wednesday, I'll get my new T4A with Badger Mini Chassis and DBM. For those of you who have it, please tell me you LOVE it, as it's an awful lot of scratch for a stock. I went back and forth between it and the McMillan A5, but, in the end, I have several McMillans and wanted to try the...

Yes. I got mine for free, so it was more a question of..."can I make this stuff shoot?" I'm glad I didn't listen to the detractors, because the groups I've gotten--and the number of loadings--have far exceeded my expectations. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A lot depends on how much you work the brass during intermediate reloadings. If, for instance, you neck size only after the first loading, then you're likely to get quite a few more cycles than you would otherwise. I read an awful lot about how brass fired in MGs was no good for reloading due...

Trimming cases, in and of itself, does not cause what you're seeing. YOU are doing something to the cases, and I suspect like others that it's your chamfering process. Even a crappy trimmer wouldn't leave a case mouth so unsquare that it wouldn't be sufficiently addressed during the chamfer...

I'm on my 6th loading of LC08 7.62 brass that was fired in an M240. It had to be sized initially in a small base die just to get it to chamber of my 5R M700. I've not had a single case head separate, or a neck split, in the entire bunch. I do anneal, and I size with a Lee Collet Die, but the...

You're right...42.5 isn't high pressure. I was talking more about pressure variation due to case capacity, temperature, etc. I also agree with others who said it's a lower node. It is a node nonetheless. I guess it depends on what the OP wants to do with it, right? If he's trying to get to...

I differ with aimsmall55...42.0 is where I'd focus my OAL testing. A chrono will help, but repeatedly cutting one ragged hole doesn't often wind up with a high ES, though it can happen. You want room on either side of your charge to accommodate pressure variation...42.0 looks to give you that...