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https://www.remington.com/rifles/bolt-action/model-700/model-700-5-r-series-gen-2 Does anyone have experience with any of these rifles? Looking particularly at accuracy and build quality. Anyone use theirs with a suppressor? Thanks in advance!

Recently, I was in a rifle match with 3 jams. The offending cartridges are in the attached photos. What happened in each case was that the cartridge would not chamber fully and had to be ejected. And, it took a lot of force pulling the charging handle to get the cartridge out! I've only...

I have been looking for an alternative case lube that works for my process. Let me say up front that I use wet tumbling with SS pins. I don't do a second tumble and do not have vibratory stuff to do it anyway. Nor do I want to! This stuff seems to work well with my limited amount of...

I have been tasked to come up with some books by end of day tomorrow(!) that will give approximate values for older guns. The "newest" is probably around 70 years old. There are flintlocks and other muzzleloaders in this collection, along with centerfires; both pistols and rifles. I...

I need some advice on how to handle a situation. I am involved with moving a collection of firearms out of a museum and into a storage facility. The problem is that some of the firearms have been left in a cocked state. I have not looked at every single item, but just happened to notice about...

Happy new year! Hope it's a good one for all. :) I reload .223 for ARs and use quite a bit of range brass. I have a fair amount of brass that has a head stamp of 'G' at the top with '5.56' in the lower left and a two digit year in the lower right. I full length size all of the brass and...

I would like to load Nosler 62gr. Varmageddons with Win 748. This is because I have a few pounds of it, and also because it is what I have been using to load club match ammo with other bullets. The problem is that Nosler does not show any W748 in their load data. I emailed them and they just...

Thanks to this post I want to know more about this as it relates to ballistics and heavy bullets. Just recently, I fired off my first 77gr. SMKs and the group at 50 yards was nothing to get excited about. Yet, this bullet is touted as being really good. (I was not able to shoot it at 100...

The retention pin (#15) is stuck in the depressed position. I have tried pressing on it to see if it will unstick, but no luck. It does not move at all. In normal use, it will spring back up when pressed. Any thoughts on how to fix this? [ No Lee bashing please; there are already enough...

I recently came in possession of several .224 bullets that can be identified in the attached photo. What few things I can find about this on the Internet says they were made in the 60's, 70's or early 80's. This happens to be the weight and type bullet that one of my factory bolt rifles likes...

I've been reloading 223 for about three years, so I am not completely new to this. I just loaded my first 308 rounds for an OCW test, and wow, did the cases get full! These are intended to be pinker/fouler rounds to learn 308 on. Later, I will load the better bullets. The photo shows it on...

I am considering buying Hornady die sets for 45 ACP and 38 Special/357 Mag. Should I be buying Hornady shell holders to go with these or, are the Lee shell holders okay? I have Lee presses. Thanks in advance!

I am loading for AR-15, 16" length 1:7 twist barrel, 5.56 chamber. The load is Hornady 75gr BTHP (#2279), Varget, CCI#41 primer, LC08 cases. Charges were picked based on the .223 Service Rifle data in the Hornady load book. In the following photos, the charges run from left to right, low to...

Title says it. I found enough range brass to fill up a quart size ziploc bag. Brass is mostly (or all?) FC or LC headstamped. EDIT: see post #3 for more specifics

Outside of the usual steel plates, what other materials can be used for targets from 50 to 100 yards that make a sound that you can hear reliably? Reusable does not matter. Thanks in advance! Thought I should add that this would be for multiple shots, as in testing ammo.

Recently, I tested some handloads and had a POI change with a different bullet type and wondered what this is telling me. The background: I was testing some AR .223 loads at 50 yards. Same powder (Win 748), different headstamp cases, same weight bullets (55 gr.). I was shootiing different...

I got a 3BR right around Christmas and have loaded about 180 .223 cartridges with it so far. I checked against a balance beam scale every load for a while, then went to every fifth one. In doing this, I saw that it was not real consistent. The powder was H322. What was happening was that...

Lately, I've been thinking about neck tension, bushings, etc. for rifle reloading. I currently use a set of Lee dies for reloading .223. Out of curiosity, I measured the necks on some cases that had a bullet seated and it was about .249 or .248, somewhere in there (I did not write it down). I...

I've been reading up on neck tension lately, but I am a little confused about how to measure it. I realize it is measured as a dimension and not a force. Can you get the measurement you want by sizing a case (either FL or neck), measuring the neck, then seating a bullet and remeasuring? Is...

When I look for this book on Amazon, I find that there are different editions and with different authors. What is the deal with this??? Amazon link I ask this because I was going to recommend it to someone at work, but I'm sure they will ask which one. I have the 7th edition.