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After firing the first 40 rounds of factory Hornady ammo through a new barreled action I noticed some scoring on the cases. It is present on every case. Soliciting opinions on the significance and where to look for the problem. The rifle shot well, but I want to reload and am uncertain about...

There are several recent Hornady podcasts about ballistics that are worth watching on Youtube. Some myths are dispelled and observations explained. BTW, I am not associated with Hornady in any way except that I use some of their products as well as those from other manufacturers.

Is anyone using or has tried using RL-16 to load for 6.5 PRC? If so, details please. Thanks.

What primer seating tool do you have and which would you most like to have and use?

Went to the range again today to re-zero and gather some dope at 300 and 600 yds. Couldn’t see impacts on paper at 600 so decided to drive down and see where I was. Based on location of poa vs poi it looked like about 2 mph of wind. I pulled the paper not wanting to spoil a nice 3 shot group ...

Comments from anyone who has live fire experience with both of these projectiles would be welcome. I have shot the Bergers and know they have a higher BC. Just curious about the Scenar Ls. Were your best load charges significantly different? Fussiness about seating depth? Thanks.

Here is some data in chart form that I collected today. Details: MPA rifle, Curtis Axiom WTO Switchlug, 26 in Spencer/MPA barrel, 6mm CM, 80 rounds of factory ammo fired prior to today. Barrel cleaned of carbon, 5 rounds factory ammo fired today prior to testing, charges fired round robin...

Is anyone using the Lee Collet Die with Lapua small flash hole brass? How did/do you deal with the larger diameter decapping pin for the die? Turn down the pin or enlarge the flash hole? Or?

Thought it might be fun to relate some humorous stories from hunting adventures. I recall a handgun javenlina hunt in Arizona when a friend of my son thought he made a great shot on one that was pretty far away. He made a humane kill on a javelina that was probably a week old and weighed about 3...

I am a complete fucking idiot. Just spent an hour on the road to the range, painted steel, set up targets, unloaded my gear and discovered I left my rifle at home. ???? EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to mention that just before I left for the range my wife observed that I didn’t seem to be taking as much...

US Border Patrol boat shot at from Mexican riverbank https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-border-patrol-boat-shot-at-from-mexican-riverbank

I am thinking about some light weight gloves for use in cold, but not extreme weather, not in the rain (too lazy for that). I used to fly open cockpit with some Air Force nomex gloves that might do the trick. Wish I could remember where I put them... haven’t flown for 20 years now. I could get...

Shot a new barrel yesterday, 35 rounds using Berger match ammo 26” Spencer barrel 6mm Creedmoor 105 gr hybrids Avg MV 2911 fps SD 11 ES 44 Used 4DOF and shot paper at 100, 300 and 600 yards. The computed elevation was spot on at 300 and 0.16 moa high at 600 with 0.5 to 0.75 moa groups. I’ll...

OK beat me with a board with a nail in it of this is the wrong forum. I have been searching for specs on bullet length for the new A-TIP bullets from Hornady and can’t find it on their site or on JB. I would like to run some speculative loads in a couple of ballistic solvers that ask for bullet...

For anyone looking, I just found the Forster coax press in stock at Brownells. Also, Midway has 10% off on some optics, just ordered the Vortex Fury gen 2.... so many goodies, alas, so little $$$.

I tried out the Berger 6.5 ammo with 130 gr hybrids this past weekend. Usually I handload this projectile in Lapua brass with RL16 and get 2920 fps. Since Berger indicates 2921 fps from the same length barrel I’m using, thought I would give theirs a try to see how it compared (and save the Lapua...

Attached is the data collected today at the range. Only the 100 yard range was open. This is for 41.8 grains of RL16 pushing 130 grain Berger hybrids from Lapua brass, CCI 450 primers, MPA (Spencer) 26 inch barrel. Advice and comments welcome. I think I like the seating at 10 thou off the lands...

Projectile Runout: A summary of measurements obtained from a small sample of newly loaded rounds of 6.5CM ammunition Materials: 24 new, unfired Lapua cases, (16) Berger 130gr hybrid projectiles, (8) 122 gr Warner Flatline projectiles Methods: Cases were full length sized in a Redding standard...

Does anyone have a link to diagrams and/or dimensions of Lapua Scenar bullets in 6.5mm and 6.0mm? Looking for bullet base to ogive length, base to start of bearing surface length, length of bearing surface, overall length. I searched the web but didn’t find the info, but hey I’m a guy... we...

I have a new 6.5 CM MPA build (planning to talk with them tomorrow) that is misfiring on 1/3 of my handloads. These are loads that have never misfired in my Bergara. They consist of Lapua brass, fired 3-4X, fully resized .005 shorter on headspace than post firing and within spec. Case length is...