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I received my Winchester M70 "Ranger Youth" for Christmas the year I turned ten. It's a great gun. Basically an XTR Featherweight with sights in a plain hardwood stock. It shoots good factory hunting ammo around an inch and it shot a few coyote loads I handload around 3/4" with 70gr Btips and...

My father is looking at buying a big $$$$ hunting rifle and has been asking me for advice. He's been considering a Weatherby MkV Range Certified, a Christiansen, Cooper, Montana, full-custom, etc. He is stuck on .270Win for whatever reason but I feel that's not such a bad choice for his needs...

They're the only two rifle/firearm makers I hear about constantly where I'm at. Ruger seems to be surging forward and Savage is holding steady. Really, even though I'm a Winchester-loving M70 thumper, I am really happy for those two companies. They seem to be doing it right on most fronts...

So I just picked up a Savage 11 Predator Hunter in .223 and discovered it shoots Federal GM Match 69gr very, very well. Box listed velocity is 2950. What powder is going to duplicate FGMM performance? If I could afford it I would skip handloading and just buy a case of this stuff. I think...

Maybe... I'm thinking about picking one of these up this week and I want to know a few things before I do. My primary purpose is to shoot for fun in the desert at milk jugs and jackrabbits and coyotes. Secondary purpose: zombie assault rifle. - Does anyone have one and how does it shoot...

I bought a box of 162gr SST along with another box of 150gr Sierra MKs today. I've got two cans of Accurate 4350 and Hornady 8th lists a max of 58.4 grains for the 162 bullets (~2900fps out of a 24" Rem 700). Accurate's data shows a max of 63.4 for 2890fps (162 A-Max). What the heck? A...

I was looking at the numbers for a 150gr Sierra MK fired from a 7mag at ~2800fps. It's not a great B.C. bullet (0.429) but to 1000 yards it looks plenty good. At 1000 it looks like it would be doing about 1900fps. I have had good luck with 150s in both my former 7mm-08 and my 7mmRemMag for...

I had a bunch of 7mm 150gr match kings laying around from when I was loading for a 7mm-08 that I turned into a 6.5mm-08. Well, I also have a push-feed model 70 in 7mm Rem Mag that has been sitting in a closet for several years without a scope. I got this rifle for HS graduation in the late 90's...

My old lady just bought an LC9 for self defense and it has a long-time rifle-only guy wanting a compact handgun. For the price of her LC9 with a laser I can get an SR9c/40c. For the most part it would be carried in my vehicle and when I'm not at work I would probably carry it at least some of...

There's not a load in the Hornady manual for this. Hogdon's data indicates a 43-grain max for a 140 Nosler Partition but that's a drastically different bullet shape. Hogdon doesn't list a starting load either.

Last year I posted a thread about buying a Marlin SS XS7 in 7mm-08 with the intention of building a budget semi-custom rifle with. Well, I shot the rifle with a factory barrel for a year and I really enjoyed it but it's finally time to kick it up a notch. It's going to take me a while to get...

I have a Winchester M70 'Black Shadow' from somewhere around 99-00 that I received for high-school graduation, so there's no way I'm selling it. This one was ordered from Winchester and is not like the ones sold at Wally-World at the time. It has a matte finish but it's done well, has an...

I loaded up a bunch of 150 grain bullets with Reloader 17 for my 7mm-08. I had previously worked up to 46 grains of RL17, but found an accurate load at 45.2 grains so I stayed there. Now I want to do some more experimenting with that bullet and load and I have changed primers. Well, I looked at...

My neighbor is a benchrester and he gave me a box of 65gr Berger Target BT bullets to try. I have RL-17 on hand but I don't want to use it up for these bullets and I imagine it burns a little slow. What powder might I try for these pills that I have a decent chance of finding locally? I thought...

I recently switched from Fed. match LR primers to CCI BR-2 and it looks as if i may need to do some retesting to find my 7MM-08 accuracy load again. The original load was 45.2gr of RL17, RP brass, 150GR. Sierra MKs. It was producing ~1/2-3/4" groups with the Feds. and through 20 rounds today the...

Just done loaded up some new R-P brass with Reloader 17 and 150Gr. Sierra MK's. I did a round robin test with 5 shots at each charge weight each with it's own target (8 increments). The first stage I used to get the scope close enough to do the test. I got one fantastic group and the rest are...

I am going to start my accuracy quest with the 150gr. Sierra Matchking for my 7mm-08. 22" barrel, 1:9.5" twist. Looks like the usual suspects are oft reccomended for 7mm-08 but I can't find anything on the net specifically reccomending powder to use behind the 150gr.SMK. Here's what I'm...

Well I was going to get a .308 and replace the barrel right away with a McGowen in .260 Rem. but given I will get next to nothing for the take-off barrel I decided to get the 7mm-08 and I am going to play around with it for a while until I save up enough for the McGowen and a Boyds stock. I...

I am really thinking hard about doing this. I would buy a XS7 in .308 then put a McGowen pre-fit barrel on, hopefully in .260 REM. Does this sound like a good idea to you guys? It seems like this would be the cheapest way for me to get what I want.

Can I use my Lee FL sizing dies without the expander/deprimer to bump the shoulder back after my rounds get tough to chamber from neck-only sizing with the Lee Collet NS dies? Does the expander have to be in place for some other reason? I would obviously neck size with the LCNSD after.