thanks, was just one of those 1 day stomach flus. Next week I will move the jump out to .040 and load 10 each between 22.7 to 23.1 in .1 increments . Measured my cases and found several over 1.850 and wondering if that wasn't the cause of the bolt stiffness If I can get a good consistent >1/2 MOA lo...

Pics as promised, a bit later than I expected though since it turned out my tiredness was one of those 24 hour flu things http://imageshack.us/a/img825/469/dsc00343b.th.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img145/1643/dsc00344rf.th.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img846/534/dsc00345zz.th.jpg I went ahead and poste...

here is today's range report. All in all they shot pretty well, find the sweet spot for your barrel and they will make a great plinking/hunting bullet. The 23.0 node and the 24.0 node looked real promising and I want to seriously play around with the 23.0 node. Next time at range I am just going to ...

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/224557/le-wilson-trimmer-case-holder-17-tactical-20-tactical-204-ruger-for-fired-cases I also use mine with the neck reamer to do perfect inside neck chamfers, just set it back far enough that only the very tip of the neck reamer touches the sized case. Perfectly uni...

Pic of gun- click thumbnail for full size image http://imageshack.us/a/img24/4844/riflej.th.jpg did 5 workup rounds at 22.0, 22.5, 23.0, 23.2, 23.4, 23.6, 23.8,24.0,24.2,and 24.4. will stop if I see and pressure signs. I shoot the 39 Sierra with 23.7 and was shooting them @24.4 but backed off when I...

it's a garage gun. Pawnshop Stevens ( Savage 10) action, 26 inch Criterion 1 in 11 inch twist heavy barrel , Rifle Basix trigger, Bell and Carlson Medalist varmint tactical rifle stock. Average groups with 39's is around 3/8 to 1/2, best was a .19. Mostly the indian not the arrow I think, a better s...

I will post my range results next week sometime, probably head to the range either Thursday or Friday. Pics of groups, chrono data etc. Might even carry some Varget and Tac along for the ride. The only thing I have in my notebook are is the old chrono data and I only tried 3 loads with the Varget an...

playing around with this right now on my rifle and 39 gr Sierras. So far my best results is .040 off the lands, closest I have tried is .005, groups were so bad I did not get any closer. When I was at .020 they started to tighten up and I called it a day at .040 because the wind started kicking and ...

I shoot a off the shelf 26 inch Criterion barrel on a savage action, varget was a so so powder for me in 32's, 34's and 39's. Not bad but my gun likes RL10X better in the 32's and 39's

found about 400 34 grain Dogtowns in the back of my bullet drawer. I used them for barrel break in last year with TAC and Varget but could never get them to shoot all that tight, could only get around 1MOA while I could get the Sierras consistently below .5 and even down into the bugholes so I never...

I love the Lee collet neck sizers myself. I have tried a couple of other brands in other calibers and found the least give me less bullet runout, when I check them for concentricity 95% are olus or minus .001. I square my necks after every firing and also I do not polish my cases in a tumbler. That ...

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I really don't think it makes much difference. I get better groups Berger 155.5 and Sierra 155 MK's better than the Hornady AMax in .308, yet my best 100 yard groups ever are with the 204 and Sierra 39's which are polymer tipped. My .223 does not seem to care what I put in it as long as it is of a d...

that is some great shooting, grats on your purchase

Notice I put an or in there on my first post. Stock Vmaxes gave me .75 or less groups, when I was working on loads RL I stopped getting velocity increases with 32's at around 25.5 yet the accuracy decreased. Never tried Varget or TAC. According to Ramshot you can push 4100 with TAC but it did not gr...