I now have two Bat action Dashers up and running. I purchased my second rifle from a gentleman here whom posted his model B Terry Leonard stock in the classifieds a week or so back.
I now have a Krieger 8 Twist on the Model B action and the Brux 8 Twist on my MB action also with the Terry Leonard stock.
Here are a few pics of the pair.
The MB action
The B action
The rifle shoots well, I begun a bit of load testing to see what it likes and so far with the Hybrids it appears it's going to be somewhere around 36.0-36.2 grains of 4350
The fog has been hard on me the past two mornings testing as I had to wait nearly two hrs Saturday morning and over an hour this morning. As I got to my third and final test groups today the fog rolled in on me once again and as it lifted enough that I could barely see the orange sighter on my target at 500 yards I put two shots under 1/2" and the third shot went right and made a group of around 1.750 I'm not sure if it was me and the fog to had pulled that shot or what but I'm gonna test again with bullet a couple thousands longer on seating depth and retest the 36.0 and 36.2 and just see.
The 22 Dasher is shooting right around 1.250-1.350 for three shots at 500 yards so I'm gonna stick with that load and seating depth for time being.
A bit of info on my 22 Dasher, brass likes to flow pretty often up into the necks on these cases for what ever reasons, so I had a inside reamer made to cut .0002 larger than my bullet dia. I run the reamer inside the case necks to cut out any tight spots and then I resize the case and neck it back up with my expander mandrel so I can again run my neck turner over the outside. I have a much truer neck dia and runout on a loaded round measures .0008on an optical comparator by testing 10 loaded rounds. And loaded rounds are concentric to .00012 on the comparator as well. Once I do this I always go back and retest my loads since I do somewhat change seating tension on the loaded rounds.
My initial load was 35.8 grains of H4350 so I tested 35.8, 35.9 and 36.0 grains of H4350. For those that claims and has said .1 grain don't make a difference, I beg to differ. I've seen it show on paper too many times and below are the results of testing once more yesterday after I reworked my cases. You will see two sets of 35.8 grain charges the top left was shot after the case necks were reworked and the bottom right was leftover rounds from my last match in NC. There's about .090 difference between those two groups.
I now have a Krieger 8 Twist on the Model B action and the Brux 8 Twist on my MB action also with the Terry Leonard stock.
Here are a few pics of the pair.
The MB action
The B action
The rifle shoots well, I begun a bit of load testing to see what it likes and so far with the Hybrids it appears it's going to be somewhere around 36.0-36.2 grains of 4350
The fog has been hard on me the past two mornings testing as I had to wait nearly two hrs Saturday morning and over an hour this morning. As I got to my third and final test groups today the fog rolled in on me once again and as it lifted enough that I could barely see the orange sighter on my target at 500 yards I put two shots under 1/2" and the third shot went right and made a group of around 1.750 I'm not sure if it was me and the fog to had pulled that shot or what but I'm gonna test again with bullet a couple thousands longer on seating depth and retest the 36.0 and 36.2 and just see.
The 22 Dasher is shooting right around 1.250-1.350 for three shots at 500 yards so I'm gonna stick with that load and seating depth for time being.
A bit of info on my 22 Dasher, brass likes to flow pretty often up into the necks on these cases for what ever reasons, so I had a inside reamer made to cut .0002 larger than my bullet dia. I run the reamer inside the case necks to cut out any tight spots and then I resize the case and neck it back up with my expander mandrel so I can again run my neck turner over the outside. I have a much truer neck dia and runout on a loaded round measures .0008on an optical comparator by testing 10 loaded rounds. And loaded rounds are concentric to .00012 on the comparator as well. Once I do this I always go back and retest my loads since I do somewhat change seating tension on the loaded rounds.
My initial load was 35.8 grains of H4350 so I tested 35.8, 35.9 and 36.0 grains of H4350. For those that claims and has said .1 grain don't make a difference, I beg to differ. I've seen it show on paper too many times and below are the results of testing once more yesterday after I reworked my cases. You will see two sets of 35.8 grain charges the top left was shot after the case necks were reworked and the bottom right was leftover rounds from my last match in NC. There's about .090 difference between those two groups.
