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    Rifle Silhouette matches Georgia/Alabama/Tennessee/South Carolina?

    Guys, Thanks for the warm welcomes. I shoot in Dad's pasture and mixed stack of rimfire silhouette targets. My wife was shooting the rifle rams with an iron Anschutz Achiever and doing well. I didn't tell her the ram was supposed to be 100 meters instead of 40!! I won't be able to make...
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    Rifle Silhouette matches Georgia/Alabama/Tennessee/South Carolina?

    It looks like there are matches in Chattanooga at CRPC, and in Dawsonville GA at River Bend Gun Club! I'm set. Thanks again for the help.
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    Rifle Silhouette matches Georgia/Alabama/Tennessee/South Carolina?

    Thank you Sir! Your links give me all I asked for and more. Do you compete at any of these matches? Randy
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    Rifle Silhouette matches Georgia/Alabama/Tennessee/South Carolina?

    All, Prior to my highpower career I shot pistol silhoutte, but have never tried the rifle games. My wife is interested in competing and I thought silhouette might be a less stressful introduction than highpower. We live in Dallas GA and would like to find a match inside a 4 hour radius...
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    Need help for first time reloader with .308 LMT

    Re: Need help for first time reloader with .308 LMT 1)Redding first choice, RCBS if on a budget. Post a WTB on several forums and you'll likely find a used set of either flavor. 2) I have never used, and will not use a crimp die on a semi-auto rifle. Have seen many tens of thousands of...
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    5.56mm/.223 Trimming

    Re: 5.56mm/.223 Trimming Your buddy is right, but that is not the whole picture. Consistent trim legth is not likely to be noticed even in a bench rest rifle, so no it is not required for accuracy. The danger in a "junk pile" of brass is that you may actually have a piece that is longer...
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    308 Redding dies...can't make up my mind.

    Re: 308 Redding dies...can't make up my mind. I don't know enought about what you're doing to advise one set or the other. I will share what I know from my limited experience. I've used the type S dies only in .223 and .308, and my experience is that the type S shows a loaded...
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    Subsonic reliablity??

    Re: Subsonic reliablity?? I'll bite. My experience is with 200gr SMK into red clay subsonic through transonic and slightly above. Absent hitting a rock the recovered bullets are engrave and sand blasted. The only recovered rock strike had a flattened but not expanded nose. None have opened...
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    Brass shavings when resizing

    Re: Brass shavings when resizing Ditto lube your neck, but also pull your expander ball out, inspect for brass galled to it, and clean with scotch brite or equivalent if you find it there. Once brass sticks to your expander ball, it will "plow" a furrow in every neck that passes over it...
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    Go to .308 default load

    Re: Go to .308 default load Ditto eclipse and judgedelta, and likely 1Sg(ret)'s load of 42g won't act a bit different than the 41.5 gr of 4895. I keep an ammo can of this in FL sized LC match brass from my National Gaurd buddy. It is probably not the single best load in any of my rifles...
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    priming tool suggestions for a newB

    Re: priming tool suggestions for a newB The new Lee tool is getting some pretty rough reviews. Like the others, I've never felt the need to change, and mine is over 25 years old now. As for a little oil on the fingers, I'm superstitous as well. However, just to make a point and mock me...
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    Forming 300 Blackout Brass

    Re: Forming 300 Blackout Brass I've never thought about how to define a loose primer pocket. . . For me it just means there is very little resistance felt when I seat the primer.. I use a 25 year old Lee Auto Prime. I'm not to worried about the loose pockets in a Rem 700, plus my paper...
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    Advanced Pressure-sign question

    Re: Advanced Pressure-sign question I'm not sure I agree with your theory of primer flattening versus pressure/time curve, but I'm not willing to argue the point either. Do you really think you have enough headspace for the brass's momentum to play a significant role in generating case head...
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    Forming 300 Blackout Brass

    Re: Forming 300 Blackout Brass I've run only a couple hundred that started life as USAMU Fed Gold Medal short line loads. Other than loose primer pockets from their birthing, I didn't notice any problems. The necks weren't perfect, but by no means could I spot it with my eye. You are...
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    Fieldcraft What is a good visual reactive target for rifles?

    Re: What is a good visual reactive target for rifles? Bullets blowing up is a very unlikely occurance. A defective round of FGMM, not likely but certainly in the realm of possibility. An AD, doesn't happen every day, but not so far fetched. . . Every organized shooting event I've ever...
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