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We made it out to hunt last weekend. Nine hour one way drive from Austin to Lubbock is a killer! The hunting was pretty bad due to the drought in the last couple years along with the weather. The first day we were rained out in the first hour. The second was overcast and the dogs hate that...

I didn't get to chrono the load until this weekend. The 41.8gr was shooting exactly one inch higher at 100 yards than the 40.0gr load. 41.8 was pushing the 142SMK at roughly 2750FPS. I pulled temp, baro, elevation, and humidity with a kestrel 3500 and JBM is still way off. I'm showing...

If the temp change isn't drastic I don't think it would hurt. Now I have this mental picture of somebody with an upside down can dumping liquid into the chamber.

Canned air is usually a liquid under pressure that expands into a gas. One byproduct from liquid->gas expansion is heat absorption. It will cool the barrel very rapidly. I would think that would be a bad thing in a precision rifle barrel but that is my uneducated opinion.

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At least tell me the group sucks or something! Here is a odd little tidbit. The scope was zeroed using the 40.0g loads. In the picture above I have 4 MOA dialed in the scope and the aim point was the horizontal thick bar directly under the upper right target. We had a chrono set up at 100 and...

After three months of waiting, reading, loading, and waiting some more I finally went out to shoot with the new rifle. Conditions were pretty bad. A solid 15MPH wind with several gusts to 20+ per minute. This is the first time I've loaded my own ammo so I was a little apprehensive of the...

Thanks. I ordered one.

Whatever you do don't get a Hornady GS-1500(Hornady kit). The tare floats up to .5gr at times depending on the orientation of the pan and I weighed each charge 5 times because I just didn't trust it. I loaded my ladder test rounds with it last night and the more I think about it the more...

I just picked up that exact NXS model. It is really nice to say the least. I had a question about the illumination switch on the parallax knob being stiff as hell so I called up NF support and they were awesome. I have no experience with IOR personally but the reports of bad CS and general...

You are probably better off loading your own 6.5 ammo. I picked up enough supplies to load ~500 rounds in the last couple weeks. Everything but the primers was online. I'll run through that 500 by the end of my prairie dog hunt next month.

Supposedly the way the barrel is attached allows Savage to set the headspace to SAAMI minimum every time. I should be fine given the info in this thread. I just didn't want to end up shoving the shoulders down enough to blow up this god awful expensive gun/scope. Not to mention my face. I'll...

Great info. It the die bottomed out won't size it out of spec then I'm good. Not optimal but not gonna blow myself up either.

I'm about to develop a load for my Savage BA in 6.5 Creedmoor. After initial development I'll be loading 300-400 rounds with completely new brass for a prairie dog hunt. I'm new to reloading and have a good grasp on everything but headspace has me a tiny bit worried. My question is what to...

I picked up one of these as well. It hasn't arrived yet but I'm chomping at the bit. I can't find any info on this rifle on the Savage site. Does it have a 20MOA base? What loads were you running at 700 yards?

Re: Rifle choice for F T/R <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: insight3b</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm going a different route. I bought a Rem 700 adl varmint in .308 from Dick's. I'm mounting a Redfield revenge 6-18X40 on it via Leupold dual...

Re: Rifle choice for F T/R I really appreciate all the information. It looks like by the time all buy everything I'm going to be right at my budget. The reason I need a rangefinder is this guy will pull double duty assassinating prairie dogs at long range.

Re: Rifle choice for F T/R Thanks for the suggestions. I'll pick up a spotting scope and range finder. Is a chrono required for loading or can I just go group size?

I'm about to dive head first into F class and I'm trying to find the best choice of rifle. I have about 5K to spend on the rifle and optics. The top of the list right now is a Savage 12 F/TR along with a Nightforce 42X. This puts me ~1500 below my budget which is fine, but I'd rather spend...