@donnie You aren't following my preferred protocol, so I don't think I can be of much assistance to you. If you're wondering what my protocol is: https://www.primalrights.com/library/articles/load-development

@orkan I agree the lower on the totem pole you go the better bang for your buck. Certainly the lower are a perfect budget scope for rimfire rifles which is what I've been using them as but with the exception of having a Christmas tree style reticle the don't match up to my PST which is closest to them in price range, the XTR2, or Gen1 Razor in my safe.

Did some more fooling. Still nothing ultra scientific but I’m trying to figure out what the machine is looking at when it sorts cases. According to AMP its measuring the mass in the neck and shoulder region but I’ve also learned it’s sensitive to trim length and even the dent from the ejector. If I’m going to use this in any functional sense I think it would have to be just before loading, similar to when a bench rest shooter would. More to follow.

@lathoto During that week of shooting the mirage would get so bad it was like looking through a fish bowl. The air temperature was hitting 100 degrees plus in the afternoon with puffs of hot wind that seem to come from nowhere. I was scoping the target off of the table trying to get a comfortable position and could actually see little tiny cyclones spinning across the field. Guess the heat was creating them. That country is famous for dust devils, usually get a couple every day in the summer. I finally got smart and tied some surveyor tape on the target rack to see the wind. Lots of fun shooting the plate, targets not so much. I still can't do much with wind need way more practice. One thing for sure where I live wind is plentiful.

Yeah that was the fix I deployed. Rounded off the edges of the pin so it didn't grab the sides of the anvil.

@orkan I'm going to have to make some time to shoot soon so I can beat ya :) PS - good job dearest ;)

25 rounds from the TL3. 223. Shot the bottom 2 then came up .1 Mil. Had two flyers hit on top of each other to the left, both were honest good shots so I’m not sure what that was about. I had some differences in seating pressure I believe is due to some of this brass being sized by a different whidden die that I had to return for not sizing the neck enough. That may have been what caused the flyers. Group minus the flyers and .224 for the bullet. Group including the flyers minus .224 for the bullet

Worked with a new load today. 3.5 grains of Titegroup under a Ranier plated 124 RN. A 48 ounce pistol gets heavy after 100 draws. I need to start doing curls again. Shot half of a brick of 22LR out of the Kimber too. Concentrating on first round hits from the draw after the starting beep. Time to start spraying for bugs and weeds to keep my firing lane clear through the woods. Next project is a rifle firing position of sand set Pavers over gravel for drainage. Then I get the rifle back into the rotation for some 50 yard small bore. New holster for my Shadow 2 is nice. Nearly 5k of 9mm since November. POS Taurus 44 Magnum broke. It is sidelined. I think that the frame stretched from being fired too frequently with some modest loads. Last shot wedged the bullet in the forcing cone and the cylinder flopped open. Cylinder will not even latch now. Loads were well below book max. Didn't even finish the 250 round box of Berry's 240 HP. Walther / Colt 1911 22LR clone broke a striker and Walther sent the replacement for free. The Kimber Rimfire Target just keeps on rocking. Will probably have a blister come up on my thumb from where it rubs against the extended left side safety on the CZ with my high grip. I may remove the safety and dress the sharp edges with a small file and emory paper. Need to get some cold blue first.

Took advantage of some sun for some pictures today. :)

I will come up with something for the CPS. I had a fabricator make this mount for my Coax when I built my bench. It put the level and angle exactly where I wanted it plus its extremely heavy duty so there is no flex. Couple of pics https://imgur.com/2wDh9oj https://imgur.com/lRJi60P https://imgur.com/620aEP0 https://imgur.com/G0Gvw1R

I own the TT315m and after using it a little while my leupolds are collecting dust in the safe.You will love it.

@flyinphill said in Just a little blizzard: @donnie I have seen a show on the Chinook winds. I don't remember the exact details, but somewhere in North or South Dakota there was a change of about 50F in 2 minutes. Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest recorded temperature change. On January 22, 1943 at about 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was −4°F (−20°C). The Chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature was +45 °F (+7 °C) above zero. The 49 °F or 27 °C rise in two minutes set a world record that still holds. By 9:00 a.m., the temperature had risen to 54 °F (12 °C). Suddenly, the chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to −4 °F or −20 °C. The 58 °F or 32.2 °C drop took only 27 minutes.[17][18] The sudden change in temperatures caused glass windows to crack and windshields to instantly frost over Sometimes in the spring the wind can feel like someone's turning on the hot and then cold water when you're in the shower. Spring can be quite angry around here.

@donnie said in Compressed charges: I usually shoot .5 gr increments when initially looking for nodes, then I'll fine tune in .3gr. Nothing wrong with that method. Compressed or not. You'll find you run out of ability to put more powder in before things get haywire usually.

@orkan sounds good thank you

Yup, you can see where the rim is hitting on the flat part of the extractor.

So not a range report, but I want to post my upcoming venture into working up loads with the 178 ELD-M's. I have 370 rounds on my Krieger Barrel. I have twice fired Lapua brass from this chamber The brass has been annealed, sized with bump back of .003, trimmed Going to switch to CCI 200 primers for these rounds vs the WLR. I can't find shared data on the 178 ELD-M, but knowing the shape and weight of the bullet is close to the AMax, I'm pretty comfortable with charges in the 42.5-44.0 range with IMR4064 Now here's what I've been thinking. I'm not the greatest group shooter. I just don't have the time to dedicate to practice at this time. The method is finding a pressure node with just ten rounds, not even worried about where the bullets impact. You shoot your rounds over your chrono, then come back and plot the speeds vs the charge weight and look for flat spots in your pressure climb. (for more data, you could shoot 2-3 rounds of each charge weight) This is your pressure node. Once you have your pressure node you can then load up another 5-10 rounds to proof this charge weight. Then play with seating depth. These last two steps you do need to shoot on paper. Since this place is all about proving and showing your work. I'm going to give this method a run and post how it goes. Worst case, I wasted 10-30 rounds.

@tackyp Good luck at your competition fella

Thanks fellas :)

Not so well this evening. 875. Wife shot a rimfire challenge for the first time tonight and she shot 895.

@martino1 It's mostly a windbreak. If we get frost the party is over. I usually cut the plastic off when they get established and to keep the fungus down in this tropical environment here on the gulf. It's been blowing the hair off a dogs back today and more so inshore from here. We're guilty of supplying the moisture needed to fire up the storms along the boundary of the fronts that come in the spring. It gets pretty hairy down here in a spring norther, no snow but straight line winds and waterspouts can happen. People going out in boats not watching the weather usually ends in a disaster this time of year. Matagorda Bay where I grew up gets rougher than hell in a wind, especially the south side where it empties in the gulf when a norther blows in. I think most of the bad weather is going to be east of us tonight and I could use a little rain but none of that frozen stuff, sure noisy on a tin roof.

A different animal here . . . Yesterday 40 - 60 mph winds with too much dust blowing brown-out on visibility and ruined my plans for going out to the range. Very windy again today.

I have no first hand knowledge of the Nucleus Action but can tell you that both of my boy's 10 and 13 are shooting 6br's. The reason that I went with the caliber selection that I did is it is inherently accurate or very easy to load for. There is high quality components available. But more than that it is Ballisticly very close to a 308 with out the recoil of it. Meaning they can learn to shoot dope the wind and do it with a cartridge that wont beat them up. There is a lot of good chambering's out there offered but I did not want to be setting up a wildcat and creating any extra work for kids learning to shoot and reload.

@tackyp said in Primal Rights and TS Customs killing some dots: I thought that was the draw of a custom action, the gunsmith doesn’t have to take the time to check it. What's out there anymore that a guy doesn't have to give a once over before using? Very few items from even fewer companies. Human error, lack of care and quality control, among other things have me looking everything over nowadays. Just the other day I picked something up at a store and it fell apart in my hands... guess I'll set that down and grab the one behind it. Doesn't matter if I'm shopping for a bag of fruit, a new hammer or a new gooseneck trailer, everything is getting my eye on it a couple of times. I'm not even calling out a specific company or thing, it's just the way things seem to be now. At least with my TS Customs rifles, I've just had to run a patch down that new bore and bang, bang, bang. Likewise with my Tangent Theta optics. Mount, zero, done. Shameless plug for sure, but I know Orkan and Travis, and both are always making sure things are right.

The margins are not that high anyway. So for a Dick to want 20% off would leave nothing. When I was starting my business I became friends with an old man who had a very high end audio business (McIntosh) for 30+yrs, he said to me "the fastest way to bankruptcy is to deal with friends and family" because they want the big discounts and he said the prices are what they are, for everyone. I was looking into adding audio to my business and he said in regards to A/V if you want to retire and die with a million $ in this business you have to start with 2. After looking into it and signing with some distributors I quickly seen what margins were and big box stores selling at what my cost was and those questions came at me all the time, so I phased that out quickly. For what I have seen you do (or willing to do) for people who bought elsewhere like fixing there broke shit for nothing. Price shouldn't be an issue except to know what something is so they can save up for it.

@bull81 I didn't intend to direct my comments at you. In fact I didn't even notice until now your tag was in my reply. I was just expanding on Orkan's general statement that people get unreasonably emotionally attached to things like brass. Your tag was just embedded in his statement I copied. Sorry for the confusion.

@lathoto My hornady concentricity gauge had about .003 wiggle in it. It was not precisely enough built to actually read runout to any degree of precision. Before you invest too much time in evaluating your rounds, wiggle the main rod in the gauge with the indicator against it and see what tolerances the gauge is even capable of. as far as correcting the runout...I can't advise. I tried it a few times with the hornady when I had it, but don't know if it really made a difference or not.