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Right place at the right time, good for you. I've got one that was made in 1946 and belonged to my dad's brother-in-law who dropped dead at the ripe old age of 39. My dad kept it in a closet with his old Remington 17, and when we had to place him in assisted living they became mine. I think I'd...

I can attest to that, I've held one and did not need to fire it to come to the same conclusion. The freekin cylinder is as big as a frozen orange juice can!

I shoulda known, but I'm blind in one eye and can't see out the other and only partially literate in the first place. So, once again...BUSTED. :lol:

Thought I saw, but didn't...and NOW I see exactly what you're looking at. Strike TWO! I'll just take the walk to first and make no assumptions. Maybe someone can give a real answer.

I see what you're saying now. I don't have a Nosler manual, but in the online data it appears that they list the very same charges for .223 and 5.56. I would assume that the data is all 55000 psi since they would not list .223 loads above SAAMI pressures. I have seen other manuals,though, where...

Excellent idea. You might be able to put wing nuts on the threaded rods to lock them in place, if you're so inclined.

I think I have most of what I want, and way more than I need. I'm still dazzled by the M70 Super Grade in .280 I snagged a few weeks back and just haven't been wanting anything...but I am prone to sudden attack of gottahavititis. One rifle that might induce such an attack is an H&R 317 Ultra in...

There seems to be a lot of conflicting info out there. I've done a lot of searching and reading on the subject, and based on what I've been exposed to, here are the "facts" pertaining to M192 and M855 ammo: - if you see NATO specs, pressure is given as 62000 psi - NATO pressure testing is...

I wish that load would shoot! It's just not consistently accurate though. Too good to be true!

I've been playing with Re17 and 180s in my own .30-06 the last couple of months. I found that 2900 fps is no problem out of my 24-inch barreled M70. I saw the possibility of good accuracy near 2900 and bypassed a node (or what looked like a node) at about 2830. Further testing has shown that the...

If you think about it, a lot of the 6.5s were born in a time when heavier bullets were the norm and faster rates of twist were in their DNA. The opposite is true of the .27s and .25s---look at why the .250-3000 was bequeathed the 87-grain bullet and the rate of twist it received. The popular...

Sometimes they won't be offering what you want when you want it, but a little forethought can go a long ways. I started laying in components back around 2002 or so, with the thought of acquiring a lifetime supply of what i like. Swapping rifles around tends to blow up the scheme, though. I have...

I read through the thread again, and if anyone mentioned this, I just didn't spot it: H110 and W296 are exactly the same powder...same manufacturer, same formulation, identical---just put into different containers with different labels. I always thought it was interesting that Winchester...

Gotta wonder if acid from fingerprints got involved there. I know some guys have to wipe all fingerprints off a gun after handing, otherwise corrosion sets in pretty quickly. I suppose that's a body chemistry thing. Fortunately for me it's not an issue but I have a friend who has to be very...

I think it's good to try to achieve uniformity, but I think measuring the inside of the neck to determine "tension" is not practical. The tension with which the neck holds a bullet would depend on the elasticity of the brass, which we know changes from firing to firing. A dimensional measurement...

Wyo, no, it's not a modified cartridge. The case volume used was the default value. The barrel length was set at 23.9 because that was the last value I entered for one of my own rifles. The "near maximum" and "do not use" flags are absent because I always copy the results to a .txt file and edit...

Cartridge : .260 Rem Bullet : .264, 130, Nosler AccuBond 56902 Useable Case Capaci: 46.056 grain H2O = 2.990 cm³ Cartridge O.A.L. L6: 2.800 inch = 71.12 mm Barrel Length : 23.9 inch = 607.1 mm Powder : Alliant Reloder-23 Predicted data by increasing and...

I've been mulling over a solar powered fan or air pump of some kind. Maybe sticking the end of the hose in the chamber. No real good ideas yet as far as materials, though.

Thanks DWH. I've already done all this, including chronograph I ng some 140s. I was reading another forum where one fellow says there is reason to believe that barrel time is more closely tied to peak pressure than muzzle velocity. I found that interesting but haven't really digested the...

I read about the OBT stuff several years ago and thought it was interesting, but had no idea how to make use of it and put it all on the mental back burner. These recent discussions pointed out another capability of QL I had never utilized, so I went back and read all the stuff over again with...