Recent content by TackDriver284

Nice rifle. Brings back memories when I used to have a BAR .243 back in the late 80's. Varget, IMR 4064, RL 15, H4895 works great in my current .308 with 150 -180 grain pills.

Yes, 8 sighters, lol. I was checking tracking on the new scope, seemed spot on. I needed to fireform as much brass as I could. Going to clean the rifle, shoot 10 rounds tomorrow along with two other rifles and save the last 70 new pieces to fireform on Sunday's match.

Drove up to the range to meet a few other guys to practice for the upcoming Sunday F Class competition. I am fireforming Lapua brass, from 6 BR virgin to 6 BRA. It's actually from a 30 degree shoulder ( BR ) to 40 degrees ( BR Ackley ) like a Dasher. Shooting them at 28.6 grains / 103 Vapor...

The case with the bigger variation, you can use it as practice rounds or to foul a barrel after cleaning. With that big of a case, the variations between 129.9 to 130.7 is not much to worry about. Results on paper will determine that. Any large flyers out of a group that I see on paper, I...

Good shooting, good luck on your upcoming match.

Reason I bought the 4451 was because there was no H4350 which i use for my Creed. It was my replacement until I found H4350, and bought 2 jugs and never went back to the 4451. 4451 shoots ok, but not as good as H4350 and the 4451 burns dirty.

I had that issue, I had about 4-5 lbs in one pound containers of Enduron IMR4166 and IMR7977, had them for a year or so. One day I searched for those powders in my cabinets, and noticed that the caps were pretty corroded and when I opened one of the 4166, I noticed rustic vapors seeping out and...

Lapua is my first choice

Nice stuff, punches a nice round hole in tissue easily, will be a bleeder.

Congratulations. Memories of a lifetime. Very nice write up on your successful hunts.

I agree. It's time consuming to fill each case with water if you have 200 pieces. o_O

Not worth the time, if buying brass, I would buy a few boxes of the same lot. I just buy quality brass like Lapua, Nosler and Norma. I don't sort them. Once I find a nice tune for hunting, and whilst shooting them, if I see rounds stray far away from my groups, I would keep those brass separate...

2850 fps is the sweet spot for my current BR with the 28 inch barrel with Varget, if I run it to 2880 fps, accuracy seems to fade. I am not seeing the accuracy now with it like I used to, it has been through maybe 1800 rounds by now. I have been tinkering with it more than I like to, but I'm not...

Yup, same here. I have 60 rounds down the barrel on my new 6 BRA, fireforming Lapua brass from 6 BR to BRA. Working on a tune soon once I get 100 pieces fired. Speed is pretty slow as of now, since the speed is absorbed during the fireforming process. running about 2700 -2750 fps atm.

Works for me too, I have Bore Tech Eliminator, C4 Carbon Remover, and CU+2 Copper Remover depending what issues you are targeting. For a simple clean , I just run a few wet patches of Eliminator, dry patch, one more wet patch and 2 more dry patches and I'm done. For more aggressive carbon...