Recent content by jmad_81

We get about 9" of rain a year, it's pretty dry outside of the yard. We sterilize and farm around the gongs at the rifle range to prevent fires.

Yeah, front yard.

I understand that. This barrel is just over 50 as it sits right now.

Honestly, I'm scratching my head a bit with this. The first time my son shot this load the Garmin averaged 2870, that 5 shot group averaged 2807. Same exact load, same lot of powder. I'm going to get a bunch more loaded up and go run them down the range. That will be the ultimate tell all.

Thanks, his big sister is a heck of a shooter as well. She smoked her buck this year with a perfect heart shot at 384 yards with the same 284 Winchester. He was getting mad at himself when the 129 ABLRs weren't making the same kind of group. I had to explain to him that is why we do load...

My Oldest son bought his first rifle the other day. He decided he liked the Bergara B14 Sierra in a 6.5 PRC. We threw a scope on it and a Scythe ti. I went to work playing around with a few different loads and ended up settling on 58Gr N565 and a 142 ABRL. I let him do the load testing and he...

I bought one of these this fall as I figured that sometimes a bipod just isn't tall enough. It may be the best $40 I've spent in a long time. It's really simple to use and offers some great stability when the terrain dictates the need. 5 kids killed bucks off of it on the farm this last fall...

You are not wrong, but it shot great with great speed. I figured even if I average 50 rounds a year, it should still last me maybe over 10 years. I don't use this gun as my everyday shooter on every hunt. On the years where I'm lucky enough to draw a tag that requires this rifle, it will see...

I've had some pretty good luck with N570 in mine with a 180 VLD. I'm going to try and work up a load with the 175 ABLR here soon. Will start with Retumbo and N570.

Nice work! I really love the Whitehorse. It breaks my heart that the next time I get it, I may be 75+ years old. I plan on spending a bunch of time down there hunting chukars and sage grouse when my kids graduate and move out!

I'll try a lube switch before I do anything else. Makes sense to start with the cheapest fix first. Thank guys.

Thank, Jim. I'll grab a little jar of that and see if it helps.

I had some time yesterday to get the bore scope out. I ran it down the barrel from the muzzle, the bolt appears to be pretty tight up against the barrel. I also took the firing pin and ejector out of the bolt and tried to chamber a piece of resized brass. It chambered a bit harder than I would...

I think this makes the most sense in my head given what I'm seeing and fighting. Maybe I'll see if I can find a die for the Wheeler reamer first and see if that fixes things. Or knock the action off and see if things are going into the chamber as much as they should be.

I've been shooting a 7 PRC that I built with a 22" Bartlein carbon barrel. The thing shoots lights out and I absolutely love it. I noticed after my initial firing that the cases seemed to go into the sizing die fairly hard right at the last 1/4" of the press stroke. It was noticeable between the...