1800 fps ?
Thanks!
I could do that out to 110 yards.
I have killed deer at 625 yards with 6.5-06 and 7mmRM, but over the last 3 years, half the deer have been 100 to 200 yards.
For 2021 I have (2) 6.5x54r Vostok rifles built, and a 260 Rem.
I have (4) deer tags, but the wife only wants (3)...
I bought a rolling block that had been converted to 38 special with a custom .358 rifle barrel. I reamed it out to 357 max.
I could get the 200 gr accubond going 2228 fps at the muzzle.
The range I could hit something is 360 yards, but the terminal velocity would be 1040 fps.
I worry the...
I build 3 or 4 rifles in September and drive them 900 miles to sight in and hunt in October. Before I leave on the trip, I load at least 50 rounds for each rifle.
Sometimes I just have to hunt with the ammo I brought.
My experience with Berger VLD hunting: I must shoot the deer many times to get it to fall down.
MY experience with Accubonds: I only have to shoot the animal once to get it to fall down, but it is not dead, and I have to cut it's throat.
My experience with Nos Bal Tips: The deer falls down dead.
I got Quickload nearly 20 years ago.
It is right on the money for some powders, but my 8lb jug of H4350 needs 4% more powder than QL says it will. Some powders, like my jug of Varget, are better than 1% for predicting what the chrono will say.
For the past couple years I have been using anti...
The Rem700 short action got a barrel only 20" long... that is cutting a lot off the barrel blank..
My notes from Oct 18, 2020, 900 miles from home, alone in the sage brush:
1) The 250 sav is a Rem 700, Lilja 10" twist 3g, trigger tech trigger, PTG bolt, PTG recoil lug, Talley rings with...
I have used my 250 Savage reamer to build (3) rifles.
I shot a deer with the Rem700 on Oct 24, 2020.
I used Nosler 100 gr NBT bullets on the first two Savages, but in the Rem I was using 115 gr NBT when I shot the deer.
I shot a mule buck Oct 24 at 4 degrees and windy at sunup over the hay bales at 220 yards.
I have a pre WWII Mosin Nagant I added a Bartlein barrel in 25 Krag Ackley with 115 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip with 47.5 gr IMR-4451 making 3031 fps over the chrono. The Swavourski 3x10 was down at 3x and I...
6.5-06
fire 8 rounds to seal bore coat treatment on new barrel:
1 sighter
7 round group 50 y 0.875" group
129 gr Accubond 3.34" 52 gr IMR-4451
QL 24" barrel 66.7 kpsi 3075 fps
chronograph:
3075 fps
3079 fps
6.5-06 120 gr NBT moly 3.34" 50.7 gr IMR-4166
QL 65kpsi 3236 fps, chrono 3197 fps...
I have two co ax presses in the reloading room, and two parter presses on a board that goes in the vehicle or next to my computer.
In any case, i am priming with the RCBS automatic priming tool.
I own a lot of other presses and priming systems.... that gather dust.
Thanks for noticing. I built a 308 Arisaka in 2016. I get them confused, but I have labeled my images:)
So I know this is the 257 Roberts in 2017.
I had to fool with the lathe to get it to cut the 1.5mm threads on the barrel tennon.
I put in a Timney trigger [mucho mods to the trigger guard]...
From the top:
10/22
Sav 12 250S
Rem 700 7mmRM
Arisaka type 99 257 Roberts
Rem 700 6.5-06
And there is half of a night vision on an off camera Stevens 200 [Sav 110 old parts]