Recent content by Ldigio21

I gave up loading for mine. Federal Trophy bonded tip factory ammo 180 gr bullet always seemed to out perform me. 3 shot 300 yard group with factory ammo. I just couldn't match it. ( I'll admit there was a fair amount of luck there as I'm not that good but consistently under 1/2" at 100 yds as...

I have 3 custom rifles with Browning A bolt actions. 300 WSM, 280AI, 7mm-08 AI. All are sub 0.5MOA and are not very particular about the ammo I run through them. What is really important to me is not to have a Remington style safety. I back pack hunt and switching the carry from the right...

Guess I can't comment on repair/warrenty work. I have Leupolds on all my rifles, have for decades. I always used Leupold QR rings and had a second scope zeroed in as well and took the extra scope in case the mounted one got damaged. In all my years of mountain hunting, shoving scopes in and out...

Looks like the deer got away as at the end you see the cat walk [ast the camera again

Really beautiful mount!!

THAT WAS COOL FOOTAGE!!!!

Guess that makes us even as I never had a Sako, though I hear great things about them. I have had 3 Browning A bolt actions that I had rifles built around by HCR. They all shoot sub 0.5 MOA. The main determinant for me is the shotgun style safety. I am a mountain hunter and carry the rifle...

I have been looking for months. Placed my email to be notified with a number of large sites and not a peep. There is great availability of small rifle and pistol primers but no large rifle anywhere. Anyone have knowledge of what is going on? with the buy out of Federal I wonder what the future...

Big question, how old are you? Im turning 72 and have been applying in all western states with sheep and goats for 20 years. I have max points in the majority of states and still have not drawn. Guess I'm not the lucky guy as I met a fellow in hunting camp in wyoming last year the dress 3 sheep...

I use a 4” drop tube and pour the powder in slowly. Loads seem to appear the same height in the neck from case to case.

I have noticed that as I approach max loads the ES and SD improve. Some of my most accurate groups are where I wandered into pressure that was too hot and had to back off. What I see consistently though is when filling the case to the neck with powder velocity and accuracy are the best. Anyone...

For the 7mm-08ai?

I have 2 280 ai's . Downloaded the link someone posted on this site for the 280 ai data from quick loads. Thought it was conservative and not in the marginal area for RE26. Primers were falling out of the case when I opened the bolt. Chroned 3215 with a 160 gr TBT. Needless to say I pulled way...

First of all, thank you for doing this. Hope the weather was very crappy so you didn't waste a day. Interesting that Hodgdons lists 48 gr in the standard 7mm-08 as the max load, they are usually conservative. I would think they actually measure the pressure. I actually got 2806.2 fps with a...

I get the max pressure being the same, that was my point. I started my load in the fire formed case at 48 gr. When i was fire forming i used the minimum load ( 42 gr 4831) and am burning up some old Hornady 154 to keep pressure low and not shoot the cream out of the barrel in the ai: COL: 2.795"...