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I discussed the usefulness of slugging with one of the top barrel makers and he confirmed that slugging, or in my friend's case, casting a lap for the same purpose can show up things that would not otherwise be detected. There is one other thing that I would like to point out about this. You...

None of us can be inside the chamber watching what is going on real time. This is just reporting. Many years back, I was shooting matches at the Visalia, discovering the nature of mediocrity, and I had a conversation with the late Del Bishop about neck bushing size. I was shooting a .262 neck...

Anyone that is serious about accuracy needs to have a 1" mic. that reads to .0001. Calipers are not a good way to measure the ID of a neck. The proper way to evaluate the effect of changes in reloading procedure is by testing at the range. No matter what anyone says, or you think, whatever gives...

I think that the benches that you are referring to are shown starting at about 2:15 in this video. You can see that some are off of the line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3WLeOJ5bAU

Just out of curiosity what neck tension did you use for each of those powders?

Sorry, sometimes I forget that when posting people cannot see ones facial expression. It was intended as a friendly poke, not as an insult. Getting past that if we can, I have had a couple of people tell me that they like it better that 32 for the PPC, I think that if you do a workup that you...

I have talked to people who favor 30 just on results, without reference to conditions. If you have some, the reason that you have not worked up a load is? Jump in and give it a try, I think that you will like it.

This may not be what you need but take a look for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwDwLVc_P0I&list=PLtfUc9LKTOQLje_k4Ugf5u08XOGdAVbMQ Evidently it involves signing up for a free membership on another site.

Well done Gene, well done....actually quite remarkable, older rifle with non trendy action somewhat unique cartridge and powder, tuned with tuner only , and without practice to do that well within that field, There were a lot of guys who practice a lot, have the latest trick everything who were...

Although I am very much in favor of the Wilson trimmer's method of holding cases for trimming, I am not sure that I would want the case to be held that rigidly when reaming the insides of case necks. I see that Wilson can make custom reamers but that there is a lead time issue (probably the...

There is another option that has commonly be used for this. In the past Forster has offered custom diameter reamers. this solves the problem of matching a reamer to the ID of necks, either sized or as fired. Checking just now on their web site, apparently they still do."Neck ReamersThick case...

I understand completely about the use of reamers to remove doughnuts that can form at the base of case necks. While the need to remove doughnuts is obvious in situations where chamber throat length is such that the full diameter part of seated bullets falls within that area, many have said that...

So, what would you use a headspace gauge for, to check your gunsmith's work? Have you checked all of your factory rifles? One time a friend got a fancy Remington varmint rifle in .223. It came with a HS Precision stock and was all stainless including a fluted stainless barrel. We checked the...

The headspace is set when a barrel is chambered, and FL dies are not set from a gauge but from measurements taken from fired cases, with the understanding that fire forming shots and the next two or so may not take a case to its maximum shoulder to head measurement, and it is that measurement...

Having shot numerous brakes over the years as well as ported barrels, I call BS on your calling BS :-) They definitely do work. I would never shoot either without proper ear protection. I already have some tinnitus, and take care so that it does not worsen. I believe that it came from work...

I have made good use of gun site want ads, some free, to sell stuff that has value, but which I never would have used. For small to medium things USPS flat rate boxes are a great deal and the boxes are free, so you can keep several sizes on hand. I also keep a kitchen sized garbage full of foam...

Al, Most LV and Sporter barrels have a 1.20 shank, and they seem to shoot just fine. Mine do not have any sense of not stopping when I tighten them, as I have many times when switching barrels. As far as experimenting with barrel nuts goes they are available in several pitches from Southern...

I wasn't so much trying to correlate them as to illustrate the usefulness of knowing the interval.

Actually it IS clear. This is similar to working with Gene's observation that with a typical 10.5# short range BR rifle shooting the usual bullets and 133, that the distance between nodes as observed in his tunnel, is about 1.2 grains. Some time back I had guessed wrong on a first test load for...

Mike,With your tuner and rifle, what is the interval between settings that give perfect tune, and what does that represent in terms of movement along the barrel axis, in thousandths of an inch?