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Bought a Savage Stainless Synthetic in .243 with the Accutrigger. Savage ugly but a great shooter...3 shot 1/2 inch with certain handloads and 100 gr bullets. Haven't tried lighter bullets. Savage really got their act together in recent years. This is the second one I've bought lately and both...

chip...Winchester cases. They were full length sized with regular dies...not small base. They ejected ok...just chewed up and split around the neck. Some gas operated guns are very sensitive to the powder speed...I suppose it could be timing issue, but it's not my gun and I'm not going to spend...

A friend asked me to load some 30-06 rounds for his 742. Started with 60 gr of RL-19 in once fired brass from factory loads with 165 gr Core-Lokt bullets. All cases were below max length. Velocity for the 60 gr load was in the low 2600 range, which is pretty low and certainly not indicative of...

This is always a hot topic...like politics. Here are my two cents. I sold hunting equipment for a number of years, so of course got to see lots of different scopes and fiddle with them for hours on end..you get the picture. In years past I had always bought Leupold scopes. I compared some VX-III...

.280 AI - reach without recoil .338 Win Mag - covers anything but the largest .416 Rem Mag - with this you will fear no beast(except wife)

There are definitely differences in brass. I have had the most grief with Remington brass. Some folks swear by it...I swear at it. Winchester brass has always been decent. So has Federal. I don't reload nickel plated brass from any manufacturer any more...they always gave up the ghost after not...

I'd seriously doubt that it's a bullet pull problem unless the case neck is being pinched in the chamber, and even mild chamber pressure easily overcomes a very tight crimp. There are formulas that guesstimate pressure increases based on cartridge internal volume, but if you don't know where...

Southern Maine...also becoming known as Northern Massachusetts...time to move further north or west.

JD338...I've resisted going to the 160 grain bullets only because I get low velocity at pretty high pressure with the 140's...just a fact of life with these rifles. Normally I'm not velocity crazy but I'm really concerned about it in this case because the hunt is in an area where a long shot is...

This explains much! Just yesterday I loaded some .280 rounds with RL22 that's been in the powder cabinet for a while and had a VERY sticky bolt after firing the first round...so I pulled the rest of the rounds. Turns out it was the recalled lot....thanks for posting the info.

30-06 (although I've never owned one) 44 Rem. Mag

All Vihtavuori powders appropriate for caliber tested.

To clarify "doesn't group good enough"....I can live with a rifle shooting 1 1/2 inch groups for hunting at reasonable ranges...BUT...the Partitions shoot like crap in both of my Rem .280 700 RS rifles. They are spread all over the place, 3 to 4 inches @100 yds, and I've tried 3 different...

I've already committed to taking a couple of .280's(one for me, one for the wife) on a combo deer/elk hunt. The 140 gr Accubond is grouping .5" @ 100 yds. I wanted to use 140 Partitions but they won't group consistently good enough in my rifles to trust on an expensive hunt.

Please allow me to add my 2 cents...it's true that max OAL is set by SAAMI, but BEWARE!!! It does NOT mean that every different bullet style will have adequate bullet-to-rifling clearance. I learned this the hard way after loading some rounds for a newly acquired .280. I loaded some new cases...

Yeah...don't do it. Pistol cases have much less internal volume than rifle cases and you can increase pressure drastically by deep seating bullets. Not to mention the increased jump to the rifling probably won't help accuracy.

Please allow me to add my 2 cents...it's true that max OAL is set by SAAMI, but BEWARE!!! It does NOT mean that every different bullet style will have adequate bullet-to-rifling clearance. I learned this the hard way after loading some rounds for a newly acquired .280. I loaded some new cases...