Recent content by edwardware

I'd start here. I've never met a copper solvent that benefitted from scrubbing; ime a well-coppered barrel wants a fresh patch of Copper Killer every hour for a day, or you can compress that jnto an afternoon with Sweet's 7.62. In both cases, you should recheck for copper after normal cleaning...

I've never been able to get one coat of PC thick enough to work without getting clumpy. Try two lighter coats. Also, Ruger is the french word for frame restriction. . . slug the barrel, check for a tight spot at the threads, and slug the cylinder throats for size.

I offer you the gunsmith's sight pusher for Kimbers. . . Link

Measure the dovetail notch. If it's tapered, the sight will drive out the wider end.

Right here: COAL is set to plunk, not to the manual. And not to a chamber gauge either, unless it's the chamber gauge installed on the back of the barrel.

I load .45 Colt shot shells, and kill carpenter bees, hornets, and wasps. . .

Oof. . . that kind of stung. . . Until I noticed you stopped shy at .44 RemMag. Not man enough for the .45 Ruger Only loads? My 350gr cast .45 Colt loads would knock that tender touchy feely Smith action out of time in a box or two. It'll also blow out any loose eyebrow hairs you haven't...

The case didn't grow longer than the die upon first firing. This indicates a reasonable snug chamber, and a not-too-short die. Neck size only and refire that one piece of brass until it grows out, then measure it. . . but it's likely you're better off just gently camming over and working on...

I think you missed the difference between a shouldered (Remington style), and a shank-and-nut (Savage style) barrel. RemAge barrels bring the shank-and-nut system onto the Remington actions. Dude! After tipping a several-hundred-pound bench onto two legs trying, I sacrificed the recoil lug and...

Nothing happens, unless something else is so far gone that a failure is incipient. The difference between .223Rem and 5.56NATO is real in SAAMI vs CIP, but the effect size is basically a rounding error. The hottest compliant 5.56NATO in the shortest .223Rem chamber might produce some excessive...

And so did they, and therein lies the problem. Was anyone present equiped with information (like "the range rules say. . .") or was everyone assuming? At my range, you would be reprimanded for asking a member to touch a firearm while the range was cold, and 'they' would be in perfect...

I don't believe there's any reason to think that a hammer forged vs cut rifling barrel will survive a barrel obstruction any better. Firing a round into a barrel obstruction is not a meaningful test of barrel quality; no barrel you can buy will survive. Maybe a full bull profile barrel won't...

Or. . . Buy a Remage barrel (several makers, I used Criterion through Northland), nut, wrench, and a headspace gauge, and do it yourself.

Everything effects accuracy. . . but I'm confident you can't shoot the difference with a Savage. It will effect brass life as @gotboostvr said, but not too bad if you're thoughtful with the shoulders. Now, if the issue also cut the neck/throat/lead off-centic, that will tell

I have a Ruger M77 that exhibits the same behavior. After extensive measurement and experimenting, I finally found that the chamber is slightly egg shaped. I made a die set to fully resize the body without excessively setting the shoulders back. You should mark an azimuth on a fired case, and...