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  1. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    Can you operate with one hand? Cause the shell plate based tool is both easy and fast (see my next post)....
  2. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    If you order all the parts together, K&M will assemble it for you, actually - so I received mine already assembled. I have a couple hundred cases that need trimming - I'll try to shoot some video later today, if I get a moment.
  3. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    Fanbois gonna fanboi
  4. davere

    Varget vs N140

    A while back, PRS Blog did some testing - https://precisionrifleblog.com/2016/06/19/powder-temp-stability-hodgdon-extreme-vs-imr-enduron/ - only Varget and H4350 are available now, but it gives you some sense of what "temperature insensitive" is. My current lot of Varget is about .5 fps per...
  5. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    I mean, an end mill in a drill press would do the same thing as a flat cutter, and prolly be cheaper w/ a Harbor Freight drill press ... essentially just like using a Worlds Finest Trimmer (which would be even cheaper) I use a Giraud after several years of using a Worlds Finest. It gets better...
  6. davere

    Varget vs N140

    Varget seems to have come down ever so slightly, and VV up slightly - PV has it for $380/8. N150 is $313/8. I bought 16# of N150 a few months back - Varget was $415 and N150 was $285 at that point.
  7. davere

    6gt

    You may not be seeing it - and if so, good for you. You only have to Google "wet tumble peening case mouths" to find threads here and on a number of other forums. In my friend's case, he stopped wet tumbling, and the problem stopped immediately. The only thing he changed was tumble method. Might...
  8. davere

    6gt

    Half the problem is *inside* - the peening effectively rounds an edge inside and and out. If you're not chamfering the inside of the neck, too, you're only getting half of it. When you seat a bullet, it pushes that peened edged outward, and you get what you're seeing. If the cutter on your...
  9. davere

    6gt

    I don’t wet tumble personally - but I’ve seen that exact symptom from a buddy who wet tumbled - to the point that he had to go buy a drill and file to file down the corners of his case mouths at a match. Making sure he fully deburred and chamfered his cases fixed it - the problem is, the...
  10. davere

    6gt

    @farrar86 - Are you tumbling your cases? Wet or dry, if so? Did you trim this batch of cases and make sure you've chamfered and deburred correctly? Do you have a micrometer you can measure the case mouth on some rounds? Does it happen to all/most or just a few, relatively speaking? It sounds...
  11. davere

    6gt

    I'm convinced that the top from a copier/printer paper box is the perfect case lubing tray
  12. davere

    6gt

    I experienced something similar with SAC dies loading in my MEC Marksman - but the fix there was to buy a set of Redding Competition Shell holders, and use one that left more headspace, and adjust it like that. I was getting a .012 bump with the die touching the shell holder but no cam over...
  13. davere

    6gt

    You’re likely starting to go transonic about 1200, for whatever that’s worth. While truing the 109 out, I had a chance to run it out to a mile (cause why not). Interesting thing was, the next closest target was 1150y. Using the AB CDM, I was spot on to 1150. At a mile, the data was .8 low. I ran...
  14. davere

    6gt

    I switched up to the 109 this year rather than increasing speed for that same reason - carry just a little more ass to longer range targets….
  15. davere

    Giraurd Trimmers

    It's back up with a new website
  16. davere

    Giraud Trimmers

    Looks like they have a new website.... https://giraudtool.com/giraud-power-case-trimmer/
  17. davere

    Ingenuity Powder System

    You didn't ask for this feedback, and it's off thread topic, so I apologize in advance for offering it. Can I suggest you cap that powder jug under the scale in the last pic? I know a guy who suffered some pretty terrible burns when a primer lit off on his press, and a piece of hot debris landed...
  18. davere

    6gt

    Because the way you wrote it - "I then trued my kestrel at that 800yd and here is the very next shot after truing.." implies that next shot was at 800... And I was just giving you some (intended to be good natured) crap about it....
  19. davere

    6gt

    Doesn't that say 400? :unsure: :ROFLMAO:
  20. davere

    6gt

    It seems to be super dependent on a number of factors, including the throat profile, the rifling style, the bullet itself, etc (mostly the bullet design). When everyone was trying to run VLD style shapes, it mattered more - those bullet profiles seem to be really picky about it. For tangent and...
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