@orkan I think there are multiple things that can be pointed to and label as a contributing factor everything you said, in addition to greater societal issues like single motherhood, bad fathers teaching their sons bad things, feminism and the sexual freedom movement, modern dating practices, the tearing down of men/boy/masculinity, porn and porn addiction, and many more. In the end it could all be categorized under @dddoo7 sumeraztion In this topic and others, like the recent ones about lust they all seem rather tied in to each other. (I’m not entirely sure I was able to coherently present my thoughts in this post so I can try to clarify later if someone wants when I’m less busy)

Besides the beltless case for reloaders, what would the advantage be over the 300WM?

I got out and shot some of the 168 Berger VLD hunting bullets. I haven't even done load development yet, but was punching 1 hole 10 shot groups, well under 1/2moa at 100yds. I even loaded these rounds on the progressive but verified the charges on the 505 scale. Thanks for putting me onto these bullets!

@tscustoms said in Free Barrel: Just get you a backup barrel blank for your Dasher. 7.5 twist M24 This.

It has been quite some time since I have been to the range. I definitely had some rust. Shot 150 rounds of 22 from my 40X. Cheap geco ammo at 100 yards. This is some 6br and 6.5 creed at 100 yards. This was my 6.5 creed hunting rifle, the 22 creed and the 6 creeed DT barrels. I am trying to finish up load development. I am closing in on both. Hopefully will get back to range soon. shot the 6.5 creed at 400 hundred yards. The weather was a challenge. light rain 47 degress and the wing blowing 9-18mph. When I showed up at range could not see 400 yard target with foggy conditions. I need to get back out and work on my technique.

I shall be a penitent man.

Once I decide on the kind of bullet performance I'm after, and find success with my choice... I don't hop around at all. Unless I don't really care about that rifle's role and its for the sake of science. Additional variables breeds instability, no matter the variable.

Money well spent and there will be no bullshit with Travis.

What a stupid A hole.Somebody should smack some sense into that moron before he shoots someone.

That pdf is an interesting read.

Yeah... did it again here last night. lol

Ok, I had a chance to do some more work with the 7LRM. Before I get into the nittty gritty I just need to restate that Travis is a genius. This rifle shoots like a laser beam. If I do my part the rifle will put 180 VLD's into a group under a quarter inch with ease. To work on this concentricity issue I took 30 pieces of brass, left ten of them unturned, turned ten of them down to .015 and the last ten down to .0145. The .015 gives me about 50% of the neck turned and the .0145 gives me about 90% of the neck turned. I'm unwilling to go much further than this due to brass life concerns. Loaded them all with the same 70.5gr H1000/180VLD load and shot them for groups. (While its unrelated, I got the best result with the unturned brass. I suspect I'm the limiting factor here because the .0145 groups were the next best.) Took them home and checked them for concentricity. Out of the chamber the unturned brass gives me the best result, about 1.5 thou eccentric. The two neck turned batches give me about 2 thou eccentricity. (again not sure why this is the case, it seems counter-intuitive to me) After sizing, I had introduced runout up to the 2.5 to 3 thou range. This leads me to suspect the die itself being the culprit because of the 30 pieces I never was able to get a piece of brass to have less than 2.5 thou TIR. The only other thing I could see it being at this point is a matter of me oversizing, because the brass comes out of the chamber around .319-.320, gets sized down by the die .309 and then takes the bullet about .311. However it seems to me that random chance would give me at least a single piece of brass in that 0-1 thou runout range were this the case. As always, I'd appreciate some input and guidance. Unless anyone can think of something else to try I think I'm going to give Whidden a call tomorrow and see what he has to say about getting the die checked and replaced.

Since March, attempting to raise my weekly live fire from goal of 50 to new goal of 200, I've managed to increase the actual from around 60 to exactly 96 ... so slightly more than a 50% increase in actual. I hope to do better during the cool half of the year, now beginning. I've managed to increase my on hand inventory from around 10,000 rounds to 14,500 ... and that's while increasing the live rounds by a greater percentage. So the numbers are moving in the right direction. What have I been doing in the past month? 01 - Groups at or under 100yds with the RRS tripod. About 60% of my live fire has been groups from 25yds to 100yds day and night off the RRS. About 30% wind practice and about 10% other, mostly critter control around the coop and the cattle. 01.01 .22lr(16) from 25yds to 70yds, 5 rd groups shooting at handwarmers at night. The UTCx has a 0.5 up hold offset relative to the Athlon scope in the 30mm ADM mount. I've also used the .22lr with the Athlon scope during the day to take out several tree rats that were gnawing on our deck. 01.02 Cleaned and rezeroed several stoners including checking the zeros of the ir-lasers. Some of the stoner carbines don't get shot much, but I still like to cycle thru them 1-2 times per year, cleaning and rezeroing, so they are ready. 01.03 7.62(22) bolt gun with FGMM 175gr and NF 7-35x T3 ... about split between groups off the RRS at 100yds and steel at 500yds and 750yds all off the RRS. 02 - Night coop and pasture patrols either on foot on 4-wheeler with helmet mounted nods and usually with 5.56(10.3) stoner and trijicon mk3 60mm thermal. 03 - Weekly ruck walks, 4 miles, 3.0 MPH was goal, but have been beating that for several weeks, need to increase the weight of the load. Between the ruck walks, regular farm/ranch work and nightly weight and stretches, the fitness improvement side is probably the main change over the last month and a half. I think fitness helps us do everything better, so striving to improve in this area. == 7.62(22) on RRS at 750yd FP == It was raining, so the target was slightly obscured, but not too much to see. == Got 10 out of 10 hits, though they were scattered over a bit of a wide area on the target, so this is 1.6 MOA and my goal is 1.5 MOA off the tripod, but the end of the year. At 500yds off the RRS ... 6 out of 8 hits on the face - one miss to the right. == The wobble on the 1.6 MOA target kept the part of the reticle I was aiming with 6.3 mils up and 2 MPH right, within the margin of error for a hit. But for the 1.2 MOA target (6x6 inch face at 500yds) the wobble was slightly outside the target area. The hold was 3.1 MILs up and 2 MPH right. The wind was 0-5mph from almost dead ahead, and I was holding for 2 MPH, and that was good enough (just barely) for the 1.6 MOA target, but not completely for the 1.2 MOA target. All that said, the RRS is magic, with the Manfrottos I was getting about half the number of hits at 750 and wasn't even trying for the face from 500yds. So the RRS is one of the most no-brainer widgets I've ever bought !! :)

@rr2241tx I bought a 700 Adl .223 Remington from a pawn shop years back and completely restored it. It had been used pretty hard but no rust just lots of bluing gone and a faded stock. Before I started the restoration I tried shooting it and it was a single shot only, just wouldn't feed at all. I took it to a gunsmith buddy (seems we all have one) and he found the problem in about ten seconds. The .222 stamp on the barrel was x'd out and re stamped .223. I never noticed it but a new follower fixed it right away. My old friend that had a full time bluing shop did a real fine bead blast on the barrel and receiver and hot blued it and re coated the trigger guard and butt plate just like the original. The stock got a full makeover with an oil finish, I even sharpened up the checkering with a scraper I made and glass bedded it. Like a fool I traded it, end of story. :( frown On a side note: There's a hurricane in the gulf, we have been in the 90's with a heat index of 100 most of last week and next Tuesday the high is supposed to be only in the 60's. That will be a shock. Raymondville, man I haven't been out that way in years. My mom and dad lived on the Kleberg when it was part of the King Ranch before I was born and he talked about that area a lot.

Romans 6:1, “shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid!” Forgiveness is not a reason to continue in sin. Forgiveness is only available when we turn from our sins (repentance). Yet when we are willing to change our heart and actions, He is ready to forgive.

@orkan If I had a stick of delrin laying around I probably would make one and end up spending more than one ready to go. Penny wise and pound foolish.

@twitch I was able to shoot 2 groups of 2, that were 1/2” groups, but 4” apart lol. That was at 100yds. Other groups were around 3”. Definitely a minute of deer gun. I probably wouldn’t shoot further than 300yds max with this gun if I can get the groups down to 1 1/2 MOA.

@dddoo7 Companionship is good. Love is good. Lust is bad. :)

@rr2241tx lol ... yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone buys it for a whole lot more than either of us would snag it for. These critters are getting mighty rare.

@orkan I bet so and I intend to try that with the next caliber I buy. For now, flitz will have to do.

@orkan Soooo.....don’t worry too much and carryon with my development then? Have thought about getting into the kids stash of 105 hybrids and trying them out too but,alas, that will have to wait probably till the snow flies....

@donnie sounds like it’s purely anti-trump BS reasons.

@curt1521 Pelt damage is about 50/50 with the 22 creed. If you hit them solid in the shoulder, it tends to be minimal. If you hit them a bit too far back, they about get ripped in half. Either way, they are dead as disco. At 50yds, that coyote got hit with a touch over 2000 ft/lbs.

I swapped from H4350 to varget and it’s hammering. H4350 and 140 hybrids do extremely well too. I just found it odd how it was only horizontal stringing

That’s why I want a 10mm or 357 to carry deer hunting. Dang things.