I bought a M1A a little over a year ago as a retirement gift to to myself. I truly love shooting it, working up reloads, and tinkering with it's accuracy. It's never going to win any bench rest matches but I have played with bolt actions long enough over the years to enjoy the challenges of the M1A.
My bad. I should have said 9mm Speer 124 GR Gold Dots are available. The only Speer bullets I use. I was speaking to the shortage of Speer bullets in general but only added to the confusion.
If my cleaning time interferes with my reloading or shooting time priorities will be juggled. The cleaning time comes last. After decades it hasn't seemed to hurt anything.
If after shooting it's going to be a couple of weeks or more before shooting again I will clean after each session. If I know I am going to be shooting the gun several times in the next week or so then it will get cleaned after that week or so. I wipe them down after each session and keep them wet.
Had this a few weeks and have played with it a little using some scrap brass. Some Tempilaq came in the mail today, it was raining, so I tried a run of 120 pieces of 308 brass. I did a lot of reading and watching YouTube videos before setting this up and I'm glad I did. Took some time and...
Brownells was out of stock on the sand. Ordered some heavy sand and funnel from Creedmore per @Walkalong suggestion. Ordered an Edgewood MiniGator. 3-4 week wait for the MiniGator. Looking forward to getting the rest. Just glad the quality of my reloads have indicated I was having trouble with...
I am buying the Edgewood to replace a bag I bought decades ago because the old bag isn't tall enough. I'm pretty sure I filled this old bag with Zircon heavy sand and want to duplicate the fill.
I am considering purchasing an Edgewood rear rest and apparently these don't come filled. Should I use heavy sand like Chromite or Zircon? If so where can these sands be purchased. Is ther
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