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Dwayne Edelman from Wichita Ks. Dec 2022

Really sorry to hear about this, Had the pleasure to load next Joe at the Super Shoot as said very friendly and great guy.....sorry for the loss

Add another older Wayne Blackketter from Tulsa OK. 82 yrs. 2017

Ceramic works fine or grind if you have that availability and you don't need to use the crappy free machining steels which are to soft for any real use....

Just buy a gage pin and press into a holder, hardened so they don't gall and sized to what you want... if you want you can even buy carbide...

Al, Using the numbers you provided I get 14.2 @ 1116 f.p.s. (mach1) You didn't include nose length so I ran from a 7- 10 tangent ogive. twist rate stayed the same through out ...g7 b.c. .530

Al, If you send the following data I will run through program I use. bullet length, nose length, meplat dia. rough dia. , bt length and base dia. rough dia. altitude where shot otherwise it will calculate at sea level......

Very sad news indeed, Bill was a great ambassador to the sport....

Another one seems to be forgotten, Joe Vinci from Conn. Passed away in 2014

Hello Joe, On Bills core cutter he did the wood work I did the mechanics. it cut two per revolution, if my memory is right it was gear reduced to 90 r.p.m or 180 cores per minute. Should have seen the first time we turned it on, it shot them across the room like a machine gun. He's yelling...

This is a real hard one for me , Bill Forrester passed away away Saturday. I will miss my good friend and old traveling buddy....

Randy, when I looked at your 10 ogive I thought the same thing for a .925. so I moved radius forward .060 which worked out perfect for .925's I think from memory it gave a .330 straight shank....

Graph Mo is the steel of choice....

If I thought steel was a better option I would have made steel dies. to me there is more work in steel making reamers and all ... no opinion I do not see the magic in noses shape within reason...

62 -65 rc

I received news that Ed Meister my shooting buddy and friend passed away Sunday. He was a long time member of the St. Louis B.R.RC and shot short range benchrest for awhile....Most will know him from the horizontal presses that we made.... R.I.P. my friend ...

Stock is kinda like the cps Alum. skeleton stocks made in the mid 80's by Walt Perierra and Lee Paulson, they came in either l.v. or h.v. and wings and weight could be added for unl.....

All according to which sako cases your talking about... sako 220 russian not so much sako U.S.A. yes they are significantly larger at the base....

Bart won the combination, Wayne France won score and Eddie Harris won the group segment ...Roy Hunter 2nd and Hugh Willimson 3rd overall

Randy & Lee tsk,tsk ,tsk to much lube and YOU both missed the shiny ring at the lead line only one thing causes that. I'll go with less lube and a smaller core seating punch to make sure core has filled jacket ALL the way and isn't swelling against point up punch when pointing up . you can...