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I have long been wanting a 308 AR for my woods/hog rifle, but every one I have seen has been crazy high, well last week I say a DPMS at Wally World for $900, looks alright, a little basic, no frills but functional. I cycled the action and it felt a little gritty, not nearly as smooth as the...

So a friend of mine came into a ton of old Hornady bullets a while back, judging by the boxes they are probably older then I am. Anyway he wanted me to work him up a brush hunting load for his 742 30-06, right off the 180gr RN Hornady grouped rather well with Hunter powder so off to the woods to...

Call me crazy but I never have crimped bullets for rifles, most loads I make are full case compressed loads (or at leased full) of slow burning powders and I always get plenty of bullet hold at the neck, I have never had any issue with bullet setback or loss of accuracy, am I just lucky or have...

I was looking through my Nosler data dreaming up what I will build for my next project. I was comparing the 6.5 Rem Mag to the 6.5-06 and I noticed an anomaly in the load data, the pressure spec for the 6.5-06 is full 65,000psi the maximum allowed under SAAMI spec, yet their load data seems to...

I thought this one was doomed from the get go, too close to the already established fantastic 270 WSM and no significant performance advantage when compared to the time tested 7mm Rem Mag in anything over 150gr. Well I might be wrong Browning is still chambering it and Winchester is putting it...

Ok before I say more let me clarify I am talking about loading for a MODERN BOLT ACTION rifle nothing else. Looking through my SAAMI specs today I saw that the 30-06 was listed at 60,000psi max pressure while it's offspring the 270 Winchester is rated to 65,000psi and the 25-06 was 63,000 psi...

I love the accuracy of my Deep Curl bullet but most of my rifles are mild cartridges and Deep Curl bullets only come in heavy for caliber weights. I have seen Deep Curls tested at high speed (2600-2800fps) but not at lower speeds where my 308, 6.5x55, and 7mm-08 would be hitting in the real...

Reading through the online Sierra manual I ran across the powder/bullet combination I already use for my 7mm-08 (47.5gr Big Game, 140gr SGK, 2.800"), but according to Sierra I am running almost 5 grains over max!!! http://accurateshooter.net/pix/sierra708.pdf I worked up from Noslers data...

Trying to figure out which 180gr would be best suited to 308 win speeds (2500-2600fps), most 180gr seem to be designed for 30-06-300 mags but some expand very well at modest speeds, which do you think would be better suited to a 308 inside 300 yards. Intended game is 120lbs deer - 300lbs feral...

I love my Winchester 70 but it has one problem, the chamber is rough simply put, it scars my brass every time I shoot it, and if I am shooting a stout load it skips the sticky bolt and goes straight to completely locking the bolt up even under published max. Is there any kind of surface...

Doing research on medium bore cartridges, I have no hands on with any of them so I was hoping to get some input from fellow reloaders on the pros and cons of each. Here is what I have come up with thus far. 338 Fed Pros: Short action thumper, can be formed from 308 brass. Cons: Seems to be...

My friend the big bore junkie is now drooling over a 50 Beowulf but that is only made by Alexander Arms, of all the ARs I have shot I have zero experience with them, anyone have any hands on experience they would care to share, are the worth the money or would he be better served to go with the...

A friend of mine bought an old rifle that the previous owner swears is a 6.5x55 but it is a straight pull action with Swiss markings all over, I told him not to try and shoot 6.5x55 through it until I can confirm but it looks like a hacked up K31 or other Schmidt-Rubin rifle and to my knowledge...

Work has dried up here and I am about to put in my app with TDCJ (prison system, worked there before) they need officers in the Kenedy/Beeville area and the Beaumont area I have not been to either in a long time, can anyone comment on the hunting in these areas? I know Kenedy is alot of farm...

Just noticed something on the box for the new Remington Hypersonic 223 ammo, turns out they are recommending it for deer and ELK HUNTING! OK I get it some people are determined to hunt deer with their beloved ARs and they refuse to listen to any criticism of that, and as long as they stay within...

OK I have been racking my brain over this one for some time and cannot dream up anything close to a rational answer. I load for 11 different cartridges I am not new to this but when loading for my 7mm-08 I was frustrated to no end because all of the powders that were supposed to work great for...

Just when the character of my A-Bolt II was starting to grow on me now Browning has come out with the A-Bolt 3, I just found out so pardon my shock if you already knew about this. Well I don't mind the Inflex recoil pad, or the bolt lock, but they did away with my flip down magazine that I liked...

I think I may touch up an older rifle rather then buy a new one next, looking for some input on which ones people yall like since I have never owned any on this list, feel free to add another option. Don't need a big name to impress just an overlooked treasure I might run across at a local pawn...

I have run across this several times in my reading, there appears to be a considerable number of elk hunters that swear the 7mm and 270 cal rifles are MORE effective on elk then the 300 and 338 magnums, I have never hunted elk so I cannot speak from experience on this topic other then to say...

I have long been a 6.5mm fan and the news of the 123gr .264 cal SST has been exciting to say the least, a .510BC in a fast mover has alot of appeal since it will quite easily push the 6.5x55 well into 270 Win territory at range. Only catch is it is designed for 6.5 Grendel speeds 2300-2500fps...