Recent content by hinton03

MachIVshooter, Given your experience what do you believe causes a bullet to destabilize right after shooting a .5 MOA group?

I put a Bushnell 4200 Elite on my Ruger 77/22 Hornet. great scope and excellent clarity.

Do you think moving up to 30 grain bullets would help?

25 Grain V-Max.

Tulsamal, Thanks for the reply; I had noticed the fouling and cleaned the barrel before this range session, the destabilized round was the 9th round fired after the cleaning. The gun is used so I have no idea how many rounds were fired from this barrel but I don't see any erosion with my...

I recently purchased a used 700 BDL is 17 Remington for Coyote hunting here in AZ. The rifle is in great shape and shoot very well as you can see by the attached 100 yard 5 shot group. The issue is that in 80 or so hand loads I have fired through it 2 bullets did not stabilize as seem in the...

Duh, I knew that; thanks for catching my error; I normally leave about a Nickel's worth of space between the bottom of my sizing die and the case holder I will crank it down until they barley touch. Thanks again.

RCBS 223 dies with full length resizing. I will try taking out the bullet seater and giving the die another 1/4 turn to see if that helps.

Let me see if I can describe this since it is fairly complicated and tech support at Bushmaster hadn't seen it before. I mounted a Bushmaster ORC Upper on a Bushmaster National Match lower. When I took it to the range I started with M855 to get it on the paper and had no issues feeding...

What made me think of it is a nearly new condition .243 with Walnut stock sitting at a table marked $375, as soon as I asked a question about the rifle the guy says your for $325; couldn't pass it up.

I was giving this some thought and it donned on me a few weeks back at a gun show that the answer has to be the Remington 788, at least in my opinion and experience. Anyone else ever had a 788 shoot circles around your more expensive rifles?

Recently picked up a slightly used Elite Comp, which I haven't fired yet, and noticed a really pronounced metallic "clank" when the bolt closes. In my experience with the A1 and A2 in the service I don't remember that and my Bushmaster makes the more solid "thunk" sound I am used to. I...

Got around to dealing with the trigger a few weeks ago. I found the picture below and studied it for a while and decided to give it a try; only I bought a new Volquartsen target sear and spring rather than grind on the existing sear. Just the sear upgrade was supposed to significantly reduce...

When I lived in Alaska from 86-90 I normally carried a rifle (338 Win Mag) when tromping around, but when fishing it was an 870 with extended magazine tube; first round was 7 1/2 shot and the remaining were 1 1/4 oz 3" mag slugs.

Like to see that LCR in 22 Mag!