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My son was the first of the 2 of us to use the new model 48 in 26 Nosler on his just completed Moose hunt (we both have 1). First thing I need to say is he is in love with this rifle, the only complaint he has is the bolt does not lock and when he shoulders the rifle over his left shoulder the...

Well done, young WT taste great!

Here are the recovered bullet pictures, weight is all 3 pieces and bullet by it self, the bullet and the 2 pieces were found all together against the hide. I don't have a 140 accu. so I used a 140 part. for comparison. I also have the shot on video, when I figure out how to download it I'll...

My oldest son was drawn for a once in a lifetime Bull Moose tag here in Washington in June, a little back story, for Christmas I had told Santa (wife) I would like a 26 Nosler for Christmas. Well in looking for 1 my wife and son found 2 so my son bought one for himself. After being drawn he said...

So I was thinking about seating and thought I would check the Nosler factory box of 140gr Accubonds that I have with my comparator. In our M48's the factory rounds would have a jump of .084 and .091, The Partitions I loaded have a jump of .048, I'm going to push the ones I have loaded for this...

Nice! Cabelas right now has all Nosler reloading 25% off might think about buying bullets and brass while it's on sale. Picked up ABLR's the other day for $40/100 also had 26 brass.

Does that mean the Partition in my sons gun needs to be loaded a little longer than .048?

Now that I have some fired brass I checked my chamber length to lands with my comparator, the 129 ABLR bullets I loaded were to max OACL of 3.340 as Nosler said, which after measuring put them .131 off the lands. My sons gun shooting the 140 partitions loaded to 3.300 measured out to .048 off...

That's what I was thinking after a few shots and they were almost all touching, the range only goes to 200yds, we can't shoot at our cabin as everything is shut down right now from the fires here.

My son and I took our 26's to the range for the first time today for break in and load development, I shot 129gr ABLR over H50BMG powder and WLRM primers, Son shot 140gr Partitions over US869 and WLRM. After shooting these model 48 patriots in 26 Nosler we both say they are THE BEST GUNS WE HAVE...

Selkirk unit Oct. 1- Nov 31. We have a place in Winthrop and hunt north of town up high, mostly in the Tripod burn so lot of open ground and longer shots. Starting to get a little worried as they are closing the forests down because of fire danger in those northern units Aug.31 to ALL...

Now that we have decided on the 26 for moose it's time for break in this weekend. Am I on the right track? As for our guns I'm going to shoot the 129's, son will break in with the 140 PT as that might be the round we end up using for Moose. Difference between the guns is I went with The...

What Muleman posted, I have those in both safes, adds capacity and keeps them separated better.

We are very excited about the tag! My son has been hunting with me since the age of 9 and has never drawn what we would call a "good" tag, He just turned 26 and took 17 points here in Washington to draw the tag. He's been waiting a long time to draw, he had to watch me when I drew a quality late...

So after reading the write up in Hodgdons, he loaded the 156 Oryx and 160 Hornady interlock RN, both performed best with 81grs of US869 both just under 3000 fps. So I'll start just under that and work up and see what happens.