Recent content by Darkhorse

So my brother picked up a Browning X bolt with a recoil hawg brake in 7mmPRC. He was sighting it in today and I had to give it a try. He was shooting Hornady outfitter 160gr CX ammo. I pulled the trigger on the rifle and I swear the recoil felt like a a hot 6.5 creedmoor load. I expected a lot...

For a big trip out west I buy a bag of virgin brass and do my load workup with about half the bag. I use once fired cases for the actual hunt. That way I test the integrity of the case and fireform it to my chamber. I do all my case prep also such as turning the case neck and deburring the...

Just a first impression here but I don't really like it. Now I have stainless rifles stocked in synthetics that I like but they are all bolt rifles. But I am basically a traditionalist at heart. I am drawn to flintlock rifles and wood stocked leverguns that look a certain way. Personally I like...

Old post. I know. Right off I want to ask everybody's forgiveness as I've been roasted for this before. But I have an observation to make. I started loading rifle and pistol cartridges at 18 years old. I'm now 71. And most of those years I tried to just kiss the lands or load .010" off. Then...

Looks intentional to me. It matches that golden ring pretty close.

I've shot them in 9mm with no complaints. I shoot both the berry's and rainier 180 grain HP over 5.7 grains of Unique in my .40 S&W. More pleasant to shoot and cheaper than jacketed bullets to.

Good ending to a sad story. I'm right there with you. I bought my LH Model 700 over 40 years ago and it is still one of my most accurate rifles and my favorite. And yours is a fine looker too.

I got something I've been needing for a long time, a nice, big, craftsman rollaway toolbox. For years all my tools have been scattered in numerous smaller toolboxes. Just try finding a socket like that! But finally now I can get them all in one spot and organized. More important though, a couple...

The 7WSM was on my bucket list for a long time but one never turned up. And you found a 7wsm is a Model 70? How did you manage that?

I'm not a gunsmith either but I do fool around with them a lot. I have had several bolts that I could'nt open by hand, mostly due to me tickling the dragons tail and at least one due to not trimming cases. But what I've always done, right ot not, was to take a rubber hammer and whack the bolt...

The best my 700 shot for years was around .750", Then literally years later the forend warped so when I fixed that I skim bedded the action. At the same time I was loading using a different process that I'd developed over the intervening years meant to seek to perfectly or as close as possible...

First thing I'd do is reduce your powder (same powder) charge until you get pressure you can deal with. Then seat the bullet (same bullet) .010 deeper per group and just see how it looks then.

If I wanted a tighter group and lower velocity, and the "too long" bullet length was a problem. I would not hesitate to use a good 180 grain bullet and work with the seating depth and different powders to find another node that gives the desired effect. You are pretty close right now.

Don't trust a phone call either. A couple of years ago I was renewing my Norton Antivirus and had Norton on the phone when my computer went haywire. The guy I was talking to had taken over my computer. I ended up paying him nearly $300. bucks to get my computer back. I finally got in touch with...

I would know it. A scope with the parallax preset for 50 yards is a .22 scope. Not a centerfire big game scope. I would never put it on anything but a .22 or Muzzle Loader. It will be happy there. If you don't hold the rifle properly then each shot will be off the mark. But with awareness, good...