Recent content by Sheldon N

Quickload puts those loads at right around 70k PSI if you have a 30" barrel, closer to 75k PSI if you are using a 26" barrel. I've shot 115's and 110's and pushed speed too, it's certainly possible and Lapua/Alpha brass is tough stuff and isn't necessarily going to blow up. It's still way over...

Even with a very long barrel I would not recommend shooting at those upper speed ranges. Way over pressure.

Looks like a very exciting product, I bet they will sell a ton of them. I'm curious whether any folks will have trouble getting feeding dialed in if the mag catch height alone doesn't solve their issue. With standard AW mags there seems to be a fair bit of mag-tuning and bending feedlips to...

I had two MPA chassis, I bedded them both after testing. I now have four Foundation stocks and haven't bedded any of them.

Freebore is a smooth section that starts at the end of the chamber (just past the case mouth) and continues up to where the lands start. It's usually just very slightly larger than bullet diameter so a bullet can pass through freely after it leaves the case but before it encounters the lands. A...

Yep, perfectly normal. My CBTO is usually in the range of 1.79ish with a 104 freebore and low 1.8's with a 130ish freebore. Suspect yours is the latter.

Hey man, you should try to connect with me and my daughter Ashlyn at a match sometime. We shoot a lot of the PRS stuff in eastern WA. We'd be glad to meet your wife and give any assistance that we can. For some back story, my daughter is 17 but she started shooting PRS matches with me when she...

Agree, if you're going to put these on a rifle range and all the club members are going to shoot it this is probably the only thing that will hold up.

Might also try this one, it's held up pretty well for me. You just shoot at the tip of the top stem as though it were a circle, or likewise at the base if you want a 2 MOA size target. I mostly shot the top of the target for positional shooting, 1MOA is a good challenge...

I've shot a bunch of small steel from D-M Targets, the one I use the most has two targets on stems, a 1.5-2" diamond and a 2" circle, one on each side of a t-bar hanger. I've also done small steel squares roughly 2" x 3" and hung from firehose. This is at 150-200 yards and I mostly use 223...

No. We generally don't have prize tables at the regional level, except perhaps at the regional finale once a year. Pro Series 2-day matches will have a prize table, but I've never seen them let a "production" or any other class shooter walk the prize table in any other position than their...

They do have that already if you are shooting the pro-series 2 day PRS matches. The categories are Amateur, Marksman, Semi-Pro and then the Pro class. At the end of every season they reclassify you into a new class based on where you finished in the overall rankings. There are class trophies at...

I wouldn't call production class a joke, but there are reasons I wouldn't want to shoot it and why I'd encourage new shooters to just focus on open class unless they already owned a production rifle. It's a small pool of shooters. In the pro series there were roughly 50 production shooters...

I think all the changes are positive. Smaller targets force you to slow down a bit and be more precise rather than full speed reckless shooting. Adds another layer of skill testing with target transition/acquisition being of greater importance, particularly in the left/right or near/far...

Hawkins is great.