Recent content by Heavy Barrel

I went shopping for a set of hunting binoculars about six years ago and settled for a $300 pair of the Leupold BX-2 Acadia binoculars. From what I have been able to gather this model was discontinued and has been superseded by the BX-3 Alpine series. Weighing in at 28oz, for the distance I...

I've owned close to a dozen Savage rifles ranging from a pre-accutrigger model I purchased in the late 90's all the way up to the most recent 110 Storm featuring their new Accustock(2019). I've never had accuracy problems with any of them; in fact, the four-shot group I'm using as my avatar was...

The first deer I harvested was taken with Federal Premium 150gr Nosler Partition in .308 Winchester, at 125yds there was no bullet recovered, just a pair of new vent holes in each lung, ran maybe ten yards and crumbled.

I'm quite eager to try RL26 but considering the current supply situation plus I've seen a few claims that VV N565 is the best replacement and it seems to be more readily available, I've started with that instead. Will I try to get a couple pounds of RL26 if it becomes available to try out? Of...

I've been patiently watching and waiting for a couple pounds of RL26 to become available though I'm starting to wonder if my odds of successfully baptizing a feral cat are higher. A couple of sources suggest VV N565 as a substitute for RL26, was able to find a couple pounds locally though my...

Back in late March I got myself a Tikka T3x Lite chambered in 6.5 PRC and picked up some 140gr Norma Whitetail to sight-in with. After getting the Leupold VX-5HD 4-20x52 mounted on it I went to the range. While the grouping was within satisfactory for hunting, eight shots withing a 1.25" area, I...

Caldwell offers bags that are designed to fit the lead sleds that you can fill with whatever you choose, such as sand or lead shot, depending on the model you're using they also have bags that can hold water.

Every time they run promotions like this, they never have what I need. 😩

I have never been gutsy enough to load a full tray before seating the bullets.

Never had that with any of my Nosler Premium Brass, had a few bags of factory seconds for my .270 Winchester that wouldn't chamber and had to run them through a body die to bump the shoulder back a tad, after that I learned to full length resize all virgin brass, even Nosler Premium products.

The ammo case wasn't too tall...I was just having one of my, 'bull in a China shop moments'. 🫣

While it wasn't me that did this, I had to go into our SAP system and make corrections to our stock, but I recall someone who managed to dump over $500 of Liquid Crystal Polymer resin on the floor in a similar fashion. He was setting up a new run, tuned the dryer on, stabbed the wand into the...

If you have access to Vihtavuori powders, they offer eight different recipes with the 165gr ABLR Back in 2022 Steve Gash ran a publication in Shooting Times sharing two different loads for the 6.8 Western and 165gr ABLR.

I wish that's all it was! 🤣🤣 Summer is just getting started and I'm already tired of sticking to everything I touch, truck seat, windowsill, center counsel, lawn chair, myself, recliner, etc, etc.

I noticed that when checking the weight of each charge, several of them were 0.01gr +/- from the target weight. Around here the humidity rarely drops below 50% during the summer months, when the crops start drying out for harvest the humidity gets worse which is caused by what is known as "Corn...