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Having seen what kind of havoc a carbon ring will cause I’m a firm believer in cleaning now. I followed that “don’t clean till things go south” mantra till it bit me in the ass. I believe a lot of this is blind leading the blind. Or I read it in a forum so it must be true. Every caliber is...

Which club by the way?

I can speak only for my town. I was NOT able to get my FFL out of my home. I’m not zoned commercial. Now, if I was able to run a home based business and get a variance from the city that would have worked. My neighborhood does not allow home based business like gunsmithing. Therefore I had to go...

The Hornady ELDM 108 Match bullets are out of stock everywhere. The Berger 108 Boat Tail Target is good as is the above mentioned Hybrids. Both the 109 and 105. I can’t speak to factory ammo since I don’t shoot it but I’ve seen guys running Prime and the Hornady 108 Match. Most everyone is...

Bergara is a victim of two things. One, producing a nice, accurate rifle at a decent price, which has greatly increased demand. With increased demand comes increased production. With increased production comes the likelihood of a QC issue popping up here and there. And Two. They are falling...

I can only speak for 6Creed but I’m on my 10th firing of Peterson brass right now and it shows no signs of giving up anytime soon. I put it right in line with Lapua brass. Fantastic stuff. As an aside, I accidentally got a piece of Hornady brass mixed in when I was annealing and figured it out...

His gunsmithing videos are great as well. They amount to “let me tell you what you are doing wrong” Every time this guy puts out a video it’s like a new episode of Saturday Night Live.

Things will slowly return to normal once we all have what we consider to be a comfortable quantity of any given component or ammunition on hand. Going rate has a lot to do with where you live in the country. Here in Baton Rouge, we only have a few LGS, Academy, Bass Pro and Cabelas to choose...

For all of you who have been doing ladder tests and seating depth tests, you might be doing it all wrong. Watched a video this morning that was a revelation. I present the “spitball method” to revolutionize your reloading practices. The first 5 minutes of this video are gold.

Yup. The first block Odin sent leaked like a sieve. It was rattling on the barrel it was so oversized. The second one was tight on the barrel but still leaked from the front of the gas tube since the tube was a fairly loose fit and the front of the block at the gas tube is open on the Odin. As...

You might as well get used to shooting factory ammo. Or be willing to pay $250-300/1000 on gunbroker. Which is still cheaper than factory ammo. At if you take brass out of the equation you are still paying $1 per round with the cost of components IF you can even find the powder and bullets. I...

Thanks for the feedback y’all! Fire formed the second batch of 50 today and found a load with Berger 108 BT Targets to work with since the ELDMs are all dried up. This is some heavy brass. Looks like it will take 2 firings to get it fully formed to my chamber. Cases are coming out very dirty...

Update on the Odin 18” rifle +2 barrel. Got it to run fine with 108 ELDMs. The 87g load wouldn’t strip or lock back so it was a single shot with that load. It took removing the first adjustable gas block they sent and replacing with a fixed Aero block. They sent me a second block that was a...

There’s a reason the PMags are so successful. There are certain places and applications where polymer makes sense. AR mags happens to be one of those places. PMags are tested in far more extreme temps than they are ever likely to see in the field. And the ability to be dropped on the feed lips...

I’m prone to overdoing/overthinking every hobby I take up. Its learning how to streamline and simplify that’s the hard part for me. I guess that’s why F class is starting to appeal to me now. I like the minutia.