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I just finished 3 Sako M995 in 338 Lapua Mag for a friend of mine and his Dad and Son. I put Near Mfg. scope bases on all of them. Whet to the range today to start load development and none of the rifles would eject the round. Would kick it back into the action. Here's the pics of what it is...

Hello Guys, I've never had this happen before in the many barrels I have chambered. I would appreciate any input you can give me. Brand new reamer, 2/3rds. the way through the chamber, oiled everything up, seated the reamer and just started to move it in (0.010"-0.015") and it like caught and...

I have a couple of 30cal Obermeyer barrels that I am building into 300 Win Mags. The bore seems very tight. On my Broughtons, Rocks and Kreigers I seem to use Pilot Bushings from 0.2292"-0.3000" on my PTG tooling. These Obermeyer's I had to have Dave @ PTG make me bushings 0.2986",0.2984" and...

Hello everyone, I ran into this problem today and don't know what to do. While putting this rifle togather I found that the reciever didn't have a lip on the bottom to catch the factory follower. I looked at another reciever I had and it has a lip on the bottom on it to catch the follower. I...

Hello, I have only chambered about a dozen barrels and ran into a situation I haven't run into before. On a SS and a CM barrel the reamer got tight and was hard to pull out. They were 2 different calibers with new reamers. It felt like the chips weren't moving out of the way while reaming and...

What is the barrel thread pitch on these receivers? I have tried all sorts of search engines and come up with nothing. Thanks in advance Wayne

Hello everyone, I have a situation with a reamer I can't figure out. The reamer is a 308 win. match reamer with a .3425" NK, .089" FB 1deg.-30. I specd out that I only use Lapua Brass that I FL size every time I reload. Well I have done 3 barrels with the reamer, set it up where there is just a...

Hello guys, last night was my first time useing Cerakote and I have a question. Everything came out pretty good except I got it a little light on 1 spot on the reciever and it looks like you can still see bare metal. My question is can I recoat over it or do I need to reblast it and start over...

Is there a formula for calculating the amount to be faced off the break in order to get it timed correctly? I can figure the pitch of the threads and dia. of break just don't know how this information tells me what to face off. I appriciate any help on this. Thanks Wayne

Questions about these actions, I have done 6 rifle builds for myself on Rem 700 actions and am setup for them. I have a Win mod 70 in 300 Weatherby Mag and wanted to play with it. Would you follow the same setup as the Rems. I took the barrel off and noticed the the receiver barrels threads are...

Hello guys, I have a question about lathe speed for reaming. I just got my 6.5x47 reamer from PTG for my new build. The last barrel I did I ran at 45 rpm and was told that might be a little slow. I'am just not sure. What speed do you guys run? The barrel I am doing is a S/S Krieger. Thanks for...