troubleshooting

Hey all! Might be a stupid question but I’d rather ask & be sure. I was letting family shoot my 16” Tikka .308 when I noticed these embers burning in the air around the barrel after the shot I suspect it might be unburnt powder? The rifle was clean having only 11 rounds down the barrel after a...

I go to Kettlefoot gun club in Bristol VA usually every weekend. I'm trying to diagnose some accuracy issues that I'm having with one of my builds and would love if someone who's a better shot than me can get behind it and see if the problem is just my skills. Also, if you have a rifle I could...

I've had two Faxon Match barrels so far. I have not been impressed from the get-go. These barrels come in a shitty plastic sleeve with zero padding, my latest one was halfway protruding out of the cardboard box OpticsPlanet sent it in. The first one was a Heavy Fluted Match 18", I was actually...

BCM 5.56 upper. Was hitting PERFECTLY on target a few weeks ago and tonight when I went shooting with same ammunition I was hitting anywhere from 0.25-1.0" right consistently. This has been an issue I've had with 3 different uppers and 4 different optics so it's not my rifle. The only things...

Here's the situation: I have a Savage target action with 28" Criterion bull barrel. The action is fully bedded in a H-S Precision stock using Devcon Liquid Steel, and the receiver fits perfectly. In a second phase at the barrel nut, four inches of barrel were bedded. The first 20 shots (approx)...

i have a dpms lr 308 that i had a conversion done to make it an lrt sass. problem with it is that once the gun heats up it short strokes. it will still eject cartridges but the bolt doesn't come back far enough to strip a new round from the magazine. an ideas?

Recently, I read a few threads in this section regarding shot groups. I guess, the original posters wanted to know what folks here thought about their marksmanship. In each thread the advice was mostly about what could be done to the hand-load. It seems to me, these folks, placing all of their...