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The CCI 200 primers probably aren’t doing you any favours. They are a fairly mild large rifle primer.

Yes, two spacers. It came that way from the factory.

Anyone that makes AT barrels can spin you a barrel that will headspace properly on your AE provided the recoil lug has not been modified in any way. Over the years I have installed at least 4 AT barrels on old AE guns and have never had a problem. I wasn’t pulling them constantly or swapping...

I have a PVA 9 twist in .308 on an old AE and it shoots everything from Speer 125 grain hp’s to Sierra 220’s into tiny little groups. Don't worry about being handicapped by the 9 twist.

This part makes sense. I have re-barreled two ae rifles with at barrels and did not have any issues. Screwed them on and torqued them. Checked headspace and both were good to go.

I was aware of that. I just figured most people would prefer a shouldered prefit over a barrel nut.

Why a barrel nut? AT barrels are reverse compatible with the AE. Just so you don’t have to remove the action from the chassis?

I’ve had good luck with cfe223 and light bullets in the .308. 52.5 grains, a 125 Speer tnt, with federal brass and Cci #34 primers. Velocity out of a 16 inch lmt are right at 2920 fps. It shoots well out of multiple firearms too.

Load data for the initial question consisted of Norma 30-06 brass necked up in two steps. Once through a .338-06 die and then the .35 Whelen die. Brass was new and not fireformed. Powder was 60 grains of AR-Comp dispensed through a chargemaster supreme, bullet was a 200 grain Barnes TTSX seated...

Thank you for such an insightful response DocRDS. I should have listed the SD numbers in my initial post. The Ruger was like 17.6 and 19.5 for each of the two 5 round strings with nothing I would call an extreme outlier for any of the shots. I don’t recall the SD for the Pacnor. Don’t have my...

Thanks for taking a stab at it. I know the two are different in the ways the Ruger has a looser chamber and more freebore. Maybe that is what is causing the difference.

I was out shooting this weekend trying to find a load for two separate rifles both in .35 Whelen. I had several lots of ammo I had reloaded. Long story short both rifles shot very well with one particular load so I attached the magneto speed to get some velocity numbers. One of the rifles has a...

I wasn’t being a smart ass when I said that was “pretty good.” You mentioned you loaded it to duplicate the load for your m1 garand and loaded it 4895, I’m betting your powder charge is somewhere in the 45 to 47 grain range. That leaves a lot of room for powder to go wherever it wants in the...

A 4 inch group at 200 yards with pulled 147 grain m80 bullets. I’d say that’s pretty good.

https://wilsoncombat.com/gas-block-lo-profile-large-938-id.html It does not give an od measurement but they are quite small.

I should have worded that differently. The first stage is nonexistent in the fired state. There is about .125 inches of rearward travel in the uncocked state.

Just grabbed mine. The pic without the ruler is in the cocked position one pic is with the ruler in the cocked position and one is in the fired position. There is some movement in the post fired state, maybe .125 inches but nothing near like the first stage in the cocked position. Hope this helps.

What mags are you using? From the picture of the cartridge it looks like they are oriented nose down in the mag.

The threads are the same pitch and diameter but tenon lengths are likely different. The Ruger barrel might be okay on a tikka due to the barrel nut and having a variable shoulder.