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(y) Ha well thanks for the good wishes for hunting. Just got back home & the final weight check was 1.2 tons of dressed venison with seven stags down. No decent heads on them to speak of, but it was magic to listen to them roaring their challenges out. Truly wonderful. Cheers ET

Nosler .257" Nosler Accubond Hornady .264" RN Interlock

Nope, - not if the primer pockets are OK. Use them as normal but definitely, back off the load so it doesn't happen again.

I can say I use the Nosler 110gn Accubond exclusively in my rifle & have taken many red stags with the load and rifle. It's very very reliable and provides fast kills out to 300yds. The data I use is as follows and may or may not work in your rifle .. usual precautions apply. Blaser K95 Luxus...

That's the hard part Scotty. You & Dewey have been brilliant help feeding me some load data and it will be so useful later next year. But the wait, heeeee the wait is again going to be long. The barrel from Kreiger doesn't arrive in UK until early Jan. then the gunsmith needs significant time to...

I'm assuming Mark, when you chambered these cases you mention above, you did so before resizing and after decapping. So electing to bump to 1.621" is your chosen nominal resizing dimension. You can always adjust after the next firing if you think appropriate. A good move as has been suggested...

http://www.mannlicher.org/aboutmannlich ... cteristics The link may help Jamila. I have a MSch. 6.5x54 M1903 Takedown version. It's in really great condition but the barrel is shot out and to be replaced by Callum Ferguson at Precision Rifles in Scotland. It will be a Kreiger barrel and retain...

Brass even from the same lot, as it's extruded will have variations of 'springback' right from new, so it's quite normal to have .001-.002" variation in fired case headspace measurement. Especially if you're using an averagely inexpensive vernier. .003" does seem rather a lot of variation...

(y) I reckon that's spot on & exactly my conclusion. All else about the rifle is in excellent condition and the action so slick. Only one other aspect can be improved, that being the trigger. It's of its time and not crisp. Too much 'creep'. So that will also get some attention.

I certainly hope so Mike and am looking forward to next season to be able to do just that. Cheers.

So that's it folks, I just commissioned the rebarrelling of my MSch. M1903 with the Kreiger replacement. So that'll be around fifteen hundred quid and a six month period parted from my rifle. Hoooooooey !

The verdict is the barrel is well & truly knackered. The cost to have a new correctly profiled MSch.6.5 x 54 Kreiger chrome moly & blued replacement £1250-£1500. The down side? I'd lose the proof date stamp of .22 (1922) and matching serial number. (I'll have photographs of course) Keeping the...

IMR4350 works for me in my .25-06 Guy. It delivers a bit more MV than H4350 with a 100gn bullet. Can't say I've seen any temperature instability, but then I hunt at +18C to -7C, not a massive variation. You're right though, it really doesn't meter smoothly. I wish it & IMR4831 would. Both...

Ha yus! Never tried the candle method Guy, but hot brass on your jorries, :oops: Man, that makes you jump :roll:

Depends how many times your Jap brass has been worked, but It's not hard cloverleaf. Different people choose different timelines for annealing their brass. Some do it every reloading (too frequently in my view) others may do it after three or four firings. Personally, I do it after three...

I just rotate the cases holding in my fingers, blowtorch focussed on case neck/shoulder. Make sure cases are clean so you see the colour change of the brass. 12-14 secs with my cases .. just don't get them red hot! Time under flame may vary with different makes/sizes of cases. When done, drop...

I have a Lee collect neck sizer & to a point it works. Check it out on youtube. You adjust it until you have the neck tension you want. Because it squeezes the neck, the case shoulder isn't stretched so the shoulder remains untouched. Case neck & body concentricity can be very poor and...

OK, so not a .308, but my .25-06 delivers absolute precision with the 110gn Accubond and .040" off the lans. I use IMR4831.

Man alive, I don't know why I didn't get this seating die & arbor press years ago. I've loaded quite a few rounds of .25-06 in the last couple of weeks using it, and the concentricity of the completed round is so consistent at max .0015" run out and usually less. To be honest, any run out is...