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Thanks to All of You

Richard Coody

I want to thank all of you for all the great information given freely on this site. My shooting and reloading.tecniques have improved greatly since i joined this site. Now i don't have one of those custom benchrest rifles. I just have a home made savage. Target action with shilen 6Br prefit in a SSS benchrest stock. Had Fred at SSS time and true and install his benchrest trigger and bed the action. One day i hope to have a custom 6PPC I can shoot bugholes with. Until then i will keep working with what i got.

Anyway i started with this and was pretty happy. Berger 105 hybrid, 29.4 gr varget, jammed .010,.br4s

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Then i went to work on all the stuff on this site. I am just trying it all. Finding out what works and what doesn't.

Did seating depth test and found .005 off shot really well. Then did a new load test from 29.3 to 30.1 in .01 increments. All were good but 30 was best. Then i sorted bullets by weight and base to ogive. Bergers are really consistent but i did cull a few. Then i weigh sorted my lapua brass. Culled a few of them. I do anneal and do it a lot more often now. Then i found neck turning. Always been afraid try it. Its easy. I know it improved my concetricity and i believe it.improved neck tension. Bought the 21st century shooting hydro press from advice on this forum. Now i sort those with the.same seating pressure and the use my 21st century concentricity gauge to sort out the best. The target below shows my improvement. Now if i can just improve the consistency of my reloads. Going to try some berger 80 gr flat base now. This will be my long.range load.

ES 16 SD 5.2

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There is such a vast array of disciplines here: Benchrest, both short and long-range, F-Class, both F-T/R and F-Open, Tactical in all it's forms, small bore, varmint hunting, big game hunting and general "plinking".. All these areas of expertise, can and many times do, "bleed over" into another area. Everyone can glean from everyone else. There is no way any one person can know everything>>>>but together we can accomplish just about anything! My hat is off to every other contributor.
 
Willie said:
Well said and the absolute truth. Richard, I won't even ask what that
1tenth or so cost you. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
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Point taken. But the education was worth every penny.

I know now i am capable. I know now that if fed the right ammo my rifle is capable. I know what the right ammo is now.

I just need to get more consistent with my reloading. I started this quest with 50 pieces of lapua brass. Yesterday after all the sorting was done i had 10 rounds that met my criteria. I hope i can improve on that. Sending some brass to Harrells today for one of their dies.

And this week the project is to go through another 100 pieces of lapua brass. Sorting and neck turning. Any other sugestions.
 
It's a labor of love. I'm on the tail end of prepping 300 Lapua 6.5x284 cases necked up to .284, shoulders bumped, trimmed to length, chamfered, necks being turned now and finally weigh sorting. But when you put 5 shots in the same hole boy is it worth it!
 
Richard Coody said:
Point taken. But the education was worth every penny.

I know now i am capable. I know now that if fed the right ammo my rifle is capable. I know what the right ammo is now.

I just need to get more consistent with my reloading. I started this quest with 50 pieces of lapua brass. Yesterday after all the sorting was done i had 10 rounds that met my criteria. I hope i can improve on that. Sending some brass to Harrells today for one of their dies.

And this week the project is to go through another 100 pieces of lapua brass. Sorting and neck turning. Any other sugestions.
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Great shooting! If you don't already try measuring the internal volumes of the cases, weighing the bullets, and sorting based on bearing surface length, and any other variables you can think of. Also check your barrel temperature between shots. It's more of a challenge to shoot that well with lower cost equipment. It's probably better to learn this way and throwing money at a problem doesn't necessarily make it go away. If you move up to a custom rifle, you have a lot of experience and skill under your belt. Reloading skills and attention to detail makes all the difference in the world.
 
.22gongzilla said:
...nice. The only other instance where I've seen consistent one-hole targets was also happened to have a muzzle brake, and I thought it was simply to reduce recoil! Do they have to be 'timed' for a specific projectile, or...
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No muzzle brake on this gun

Time and true is what Fred calls blueprinting a savage action.
 
Not many folk are able to shoot Five consecutive 5-shot groups at 100yards and average 0.300moa with out a full custom rifle.

You've done your homework and I too would be VERY proud of those results.

What now ? Practice Practice Practice !
 
.22gongzilla said:
...good, there's hope for my rifle yet! You using anything special like wadding or bore coating, etc.? just wondering thx
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Oh yeah. You feed it right and your rifle will suprise you. I have learned so much here. My learning curve is accelerating.

No special bore treatments. I bought a cheap Lyman borescope and learned an important lesson. The dreaded carbon ring. There is a thread on it here. What happens is carbon starts to accumulate in the throat and covers up the beginning of the lands. You need to remove it. I clean my rifle after every range session. Thought it was clean. One look and i didn't like it. A parker hale jag with a patch wrapped.around it, c4 carbon getter and a little iosso paste. Short stroke the throat and about 10" up the bore. You will be shocked what comes.out. i learned it right here.

I have sold rifles that accuracy was deteriorating on. I am a firm believer now that all they needed was a good throat cleaning.

Now there are many out there that shoot better than me that don't believe in cleaning. Whatever works for you.
 
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