Bart Sauter Interviews with Erik Cortina

[D Coots]

Looks like you have a good plan...

 

[D Coots]

I'll start a different thread about the blast Joe asked me about so I don't muck up Bart's thread anymore.

A Little Too Much Powder Butch?

Answering Lil Joe and getting away from messing up Bart's post. Back when I was in the quarry business blasting limestone was part of it. We'd usually shoot 25K tons or so at a time. This particular blast was Bed 12 in my quarry nearby. This ledge was very hard to get breakage towards the top...

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[davidjoe]

Erik has asked me a couple times. I'm not sure that I would do a very good interview and I'm not a social media fan. Just another high school drop out gunsmith.

Number 74, no one can deny Erik, pressing play now .

… so will y’all say “Hornady” in 91 minutes .

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Number 74, no one can deny Erik, pressing play now .

Well, I was right. I didn't do a very good interview. I hope it comes across better than it felt.

 

[Evan]

Well, I was right. I didn't do a very good interview. I hope it comes across better than it felt.

That was a great interview, Alex. I had no trouble sitting through all 1:30 of it and you explained your answers very clearly. It was far easier than some of his other interviews. I hope @tom will take the time as well!

 

[davidjoe]

Well, I was right. I didn't do a very good interview. I hope it comes across better than it felt.

Appreciate the sharing of your experience, greatly. Especially, I keyed in on the ignition and primer discussion. Err on the side of harder primer strikes through pin weight, spring strength, length of fall. Couldn’t agree more.

Had a bad string lately shooting 87.0 grains where the temperature was too cool for standard rifle primers to consistently ignite the column. Hang fires resulted with low impacts. Reliable ignition can’t be taken for granted, even if magnum primers aren’t considered ideal for accuracy.

This interview is one of the best for us Fclass guys. By the way I like to poke Erik on here about the PRC originally being from Hornady, all in good fun. Great work Alex on that cartridge. Erik is a superb shooter obviously, “blue chip,” literally, but his recent long range SWN win with your new to him, cartridge puts it at 1 for 1 with him, and he was second in midrange, too. (Jay wanted to beat the Shehane’s ballistics a few years ago, not Jaaaay ).

 

[tom]

That was a great interview, Alex. I had no trouble sitting through all 1:30 of it and you explained your answers very clearly. It was far easier than some of his other interviews. I hope @tom will take the time as well!

I did it. I told him I can't stay on point, and everything becomes a story, but we did it anyways.

Tom

 

[Jdne5b]

Thanks for doing them Tom and Alex. I’ve been hoping you both were on the list.

 

[RickyK]

Well, I was right. I didn't do a very good interview. I hope it comes across better than it felt.

One of the best i have seen !!

 

[xr650rRider]

One of the best i have seen !!

I thought so too.

 

[Sandstorm]

Great interview....but hell most of them are.

 

[Murray Brook]

@Alex Wheeler Great interview. Loved the chasing of the lands part. Erik ,I believe, chases the lands but doesn't know it.

 

[swd]

Well, I was right. I didn't do a very good interview. I hope it comes across better than it felt.

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