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Now this, I think really has merit. After all, a Chrony while inexpensive and only used in general field testing will never provide lab. quality data, so it follows an average over a considerable number of shots would get you closer to your own barrel/ammunition performance, but still leaving a...

Yesterday With a good friend we chrono’d his ammunition - 6.5x55SE. His loads are very accurate, around 3/4” @ 100yds, so consistently pretty fair. Set chrono up & shoot five rounds with avg. MV established at 2788fps. Then another five rounds shot, and average fps similar resulting in the...

From the hunting perspective, some of the biggest names in hunting African dangerous game in the early 1900’s, Finch-Hatton, WDM ‘Karamoja’ Bell, the von Blixens et al, commonly used the Mannlicher Schoenauers of their day in 6.5x54 or 7x57/.275 Rigby. But plainly bigger stompier...

It’s interesting there are so many contradictory views on nickel cases. Personally, I’ve used the same cases (Rem.) for quite a few years and rarely encountered any issues with regard to any aspect of their use. Certainly no problems reloading them and it’s only over the last three years I’ve...

Does the die need to be screwed into the press slightly more for the collet to compress the neck further & increase case neck tension?

OK folks, what are your views on these cases? Which do you prefer? Advantages/disadvantages? Horror stories? POI differences?

Hi Yoda, I have to say copper fouling in my own barrel is very low and IMR4831 has always given better MV (3,120fps/53gns IMR4831) with the 110gn AB bullet. Metering it is a pain though & a trickler essential. I seat the 110gn AB .040” from the lands & invariably accuracy is .025” MOA @ 100yds...

So what do you guys think about the metering of IMR7977 through a RCBS Uniflo? Is it sticky like IMR4831? or smooooother ... would love that! The numbers you're getting Yoda seem interesting, e.g. if I knock off 40fps per inch from my shorter 22" barrel, that's 3 x 40=120fps less. Makes your...

I use a German roe-sack with a cushion or other stuff in it for range testing. It’s handy and pretty close to what I’d use when hunting.

I use the Sinclair guage, may not be the best, but good enough for me. I don’t much like the idea of the guages that permit bullet adjustment/movement corrections because I can’t see how moving the bullet wouldn’t affect neck tensions.

At the range, in ‘controlled conditions’, definitely inside 1”@100yds minimum standard. In the field on live quarry ... anything that knocks the beast over with a clean kill from the wet, shitty, most uncomfortable shooting position I almost always find myself in when hunting. (But I love it...

Ha LRH, when your great great grandfather left Ireland, no such hoops to jump through to own & posess a firearm existed. Politicians as the old saying goes are (and media hype) the enemy of firearms. As for hunting in the UK, well, ten minutes drive from my home there are red stags/deer that I...

I use an opaque plastic box resting on the rods over my chrony, the ends cut away so the bullet can pass through. Always seems to work very well when sunny and keeps it all dry should it rain. It’s also rather more wind resistant, but does have a limit. You can also just mod an opaque plastic...

Checking at the range yesterday, R17 is, but not R26. Anyway, the stutzen shows good promise. Shoots well with Norma 120gn Nosler factory & not so bad with my 140gn SST reloads. Not great, but not bad. All would easily take a red stag. But, there is a ‘set trigger’ issue I need to sort out. Dry...

Thanks Mike & Scotty. Currently some IMR & Alliant powders are still available and I think R26 is EU compatible. Not sure about this though. I’ll check it out as many USA manufactured propellants are no longer being shipped to Europe. All due to some heath & safety issue dreamed up by the EU...

Ha ha....law of diminishing returns springs to mind :roll: Think of it more or less as an engineering project ... sort of moving toward a doctorate without the hat & gown (y) So many angles and advice to find and chase. But 1/2” @ 100yds is a perfectly good hunting round. And remember even...

Definitely looking forward to using it E .. friends are using them on the reds now for the last two seasons & I'm just catching up. Two have Sako Finnlite's and one has a Lakelander. Another has 6.5x68 vom hoffe and another has 6.5x47Lapua. They certainly are dropping the stags cleanly. Not...

OK, so this is it scoped up, fully sorted, Zeiss 8x56 off my K95 and just requires zeroing tomorrow morning .. then, ready to go. & just for fun, a couple of pics of my K95 now glassed up with the S&B 8x56

Sounds exactly what SjB said..ring mark at the bottom of the case body above the rim where the cartridge case doesn’t get fully sized inside a full length sizing die. Absolutely normal. Getting your charge and bullet seating tuned in correctly will reduce your groups but its all down to case...

Ha .. we’ll see later this year, but I’m hoping so Scotty. I hope I’ll be able to take a roebuck in Scotland before then though, but stags are something else again and I relish the forthcoming season, especially the rut. I’d love to take another big boy with it! Thanks to all you guys for your...