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Tracking is your friend. If you can add stand offs to get the bag rider parallel to the bore and the bipod mount square to it, the gun will recoil closer to straight down the bore. Moving the top of the recoil pad to just over the top of the bolt will align the support with the recoil impulse...

If those velocity spreads hold for 10 shots, I'd go with 108 grains and call it good. There isn't a lot left on the table with an ES of 20 for 10 shots and there isn't anything near or below 10 fps. When I have a pressure ladder like that and I think the velocity is still low, I start with...

The firing pin doesn't move the case forward. The ejector is already holding it there. The best bet on wildcats is to short chamber them for the brass you actually have. You've probably already internalized that lesson..... How does that 10kJ limit work? Are cartridges banned outright by...

Information is worth exactly what you pay for it, nothing more, nothing less. You own what you learned. I did 3 wildcats based on the 338 Lapua case 5-6 years ago. A shortened 7mm version with a 35 degree shoulder, and 40 degree Improved 7mm and 30 caliber versions. Loose, likely denial...

He's not real. Nobody has been holding 2 ELR matches a month for 10 years. 10 years ago you'd be shouted down for claiming you'd shot a bullet to subsonic distances.

I've never replaced a set of action screws after they've been fitted. There isn't enough thread engagement on any of them so make sure you have all you can get. I torque them to 65 inch pounds and retorque them every time I clean the barrel. They never move after 100 rounds but I started that...

What is your firing solution at 1000 yards? I ran a generic 338 Lapua load using a 300 grain Berger at 2750 fps and came up with about 25 moa? With a little help from a density altitude above sea level you should almost be able to do that with either the MOAR-T or MOAR-20MOA and nothing in the...

Let's move back a step. Are you dialing elevation or trying to use the reticle with the turret at the 200 yard setting? If you're still on the reticle, start dialing the turret. The travel and repeatability of that turret are why you bought the Nightforce. If you haven't already, set the...

I'd suggest starting with figuring out how much more you can get out of the scope you have. From your zero, how much elevation is available before it tops out? What is the advertised elevation for that scope? Subtract one from the other and that's roughly how much more base you can use. The...

This too. Decide on a bullet, then buy a barrel. First time through its a chicken or egg situation though. I tested solids in my first 9.3 barrel to get a start on figuring out powders, charges and resulting velocities. I had the first 9.3 barrel in a week. The 7 took 10 months.

No, I'm saying you'll likely find better jacketed bullet performance at lower pressures than the brass will take. If you run jacketed bullets at ejector mark pressures and then test them against themselves in a load 100 fps slower you'll dial more into the scope but the vertical stripe at the...

You made your choice on the type of bullet when you bought the barrel. It's heavily sorted and culled Bergers or ATips out of the box. For ELR, you're looking for a Sg in the 1.7+ range at the elevation you're shooting at. Solids give the most consistency at 2.2+. My first 33XC barrel went...

A starter rifle is a good idea and that Savage can be a good value. The 300 PRC really does run just past the 338 Lapua cheaper and with less recoil. The Savage is a consumer grade commodity, so there is some risk you won't get a good example. Problems may include a not so great barrel...

They're small, 6-8ish typically. Sometimes twice that. Some regulars, some semi regulars. Newbies drift though but only a few pick it up. It's pretty remote and the road in can be a bit much for flat landers. The weather plays a big part.

I have a few of those Gen 1 Razors. They're a nice entry level ELR scope at the cop price. They also weigh as much as a loaded Glock. That Bergara lists 6-48 screws for the scope base. On R700 pattern rifles, even with 8-40 screws I put a 3/16" pin between the rear screws to take the recoil...

They use a barrel nut so the headspace can be adjusted when the barrel is installed.

Good job on the load development. I'm also having good luck with a 33xc. This is the 300 Atip with 24N41 from a 30" barrel chambered with the solids reamer. QL gives 3100 fps for this load with a 34" barrel, so it's maybe 2 - 2.5 grains, 3-4ksi lighter than what you're running. No pressure...

Good job on that velocity spread. Did you use the bullets as they came out of the box? Any culling, sorting, pointing, trimming,.... That 2% variation on the print out is the BC SD and not the ES. Back of the napkin, kinda, sorta, 1% BC variation has more or less the same impact on vertical...

I watched it on an 86" screen a few times and you can see the puff at 11:00 on the target if you watch it enough times with enough resolution. I thought it might have been a strike off the target stand, but it wasn't. The biggest piece of the bullet hits the upper berm to the upper left, a...

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