Recent content by Varminterror

Body bulges at the web can be disguised by smashing them back into the shape of a normal case, but they can't be "corrected." That brass has been stretched, and sizing it, even roll sizing, doesn't compact it back into the same thickness it had before - it just squishes that material out...

I'm not old enough to tell these tales, but I paid $0.59/gal for gas most of my Senior year of high school. It was regularly $0.79/gal, but our small town station needed empty tanks every Thursday to accept a full tanker, so they cut the price by 20cents/gal on Thursday mornings to get the tanks...

I was just seeing that little bit of left favor in the groups, which can either be REALLY easy to fix and improve your score - IF it's just a little extra Left in the zero - or it can be a bit more complex to focus more on compensating for slight wind (which for 22LR, "slight wind" is still...

Um... does anyone see the irony in pointing a finger at Hodgdon for constructing a privately held small conglomeration of companies owned and operated by SHOOTERS!!!! including the acquisition of RCBS, which they have purchased from a FAR LARGER conglomeration of dozens of companies, a Capital...

Great shooting! And yeah, looks like you could put a few more matches downrange and feel good about the results! But - it’s gonna make my brain claw through my head if I don’t ask… Was it a wisp of L—>R wind, or do you maybe have a minute left in your zero? Or too much trigger hand?

Sell the Savage outright, or trade for a better option.

Bulges above the web are God's way of warning you to not try to make use of the brass. Working that area of the case, thinning and work hardening, is a recipe for case failure. For how little a few 300blk cases are worth, ANY headache is not worth it...

By caliber, 458WM now, was meant to be a Lott originally, but I'm on a shorter receiver and wasn't wanting to do a second lug on the barrel into the stock. I suppose my 45-70 and 458socom are technically the same caliber as my 458wm though, but obviously smaller and less potent cartridges - and...

Admittedly, I've always disliked keeping multiple rear bunny ear bags in play, largely because I'll like how one tracks better than the other, and then I'll pull my hair out trying to get the "not as good" one to track like the "better one."

The ARC was really built to be AR mag/STANAG compatible. I can't get 108 ELD's into mag length with 243LBC/6mmAR/6Grendel. There were a lot of other rounds built on the Grendel case, the Grinch, Turbo40, FatRat, but not all of them have been built to fit STANAG mags - which is to say most of...

8.5" in a Blackout is pretty handy. I wanna do an 8" stickshift one of these days after lusting over a "shop model" he offered a couple of years ago. Another friend bought one, and we played with it after a PRS match last year, we shot out to 600yrds with his subsonic load (big, 200grn 30cal...

The poll options don't fit my personal philosophy. I'm "performance loyal," I don't live based on brand names alone, but I only buy brands which have demonstrated and do demonstrate performance to meet the task I'm pursuing. I have gear from Lee and Frankford, some from RCBS, Lyman, and...

Torque driver, plumb bob, levels, mounting jig. I stress-free bed non-integral rails, I lap or bed rings if I'm putting lipstick on pigs. I mount my scopes myself, perfectly. It's not a complex system, it's a tube and a dozen or so screws. It's so easy and inexpensive to do it well, I'm not sure...

The 243win and 243AI were my favorite cartridge for almost 20 years, but I spent all of that time spending money on custom reamers, dies, and barrels to make it behave like a 6 creed does out of the box. When the 6.5 creed came around, “mildcatting” the 6 creed became too easy - smiths all over...

They aren’t. It’s carbon.