Recent content by Niles Coyote

I also spend long hours behind the wheel, these keep my mind occupied and the trips seem shorter. One of my absolute favorites: Shawn Ryan Show He has long form interviews from both current and historical event participants, both military and civilian. Many of these are folks that have had...

553 yards, 6.5 Creedmoor, 140 ELD

When Hornady debuted the ELD line the stated difference between the M and X, directly from Hornady, was the X had a thicker jacket to delay expansion. I doubt very much that the 123 ELD-M is a SST with a new hat.

I love this little cartridge. I started playing around with it last year. I built mine on a Mega Arms receiver set using a 1:8 twist 18" JP Enterprise lightweight barrel, JP Enterprise full mass carrier, captured recoil spring and brake, Geissele SD-E two stage trigger and a magpul CTR...

So three Christmases back I bought my father a 6.5x32 fury binocular. Let me tell you about my Dad. He has macular degeneration. After numerous trips to various eye specialists he unfortunately has found that his eye's will not respond to the treatment that have helped some keep what...

Factory barreled actions , bedded into replacement stocks by me... 243 sps varmint and at 1000y 308 sps tactical 223 sps tactical, groups a little wide but that is what happens when you are using a 223 at 1000y and are not a real good wind reader. The factory SPS stocks...

I have often wondered how much difference the caliber, bullet weight used and load density plays into this as my numbers for varget were much closer to .6 fps per degree in my 308 with 175's and I have seen data that shows AR-Comp to be less than half that also in a 308...

6mm’s are all the craze right now in tactical LR matches as they offer less drop and match or best most of the 264 calibers used in those matches in the wind. Plus bullets are cheaper BUT that may be off set on barrel cost as barrel changes will occur quicker with most of the 6mm’s. For a...

Let me tell you, bugholes knows how to build a 260 Literally the first shots at 1000y with my “bugholes” 260 barreled action Plate is 36”

I have used the 53 v-max out of a 7 twist 223 at ~3050 and they shot ok, not as well as 69smk'd through. In a 22-250, unless you are wanting to use 90 grain bullets I would stick with an 8 twist.

Have a Winchester 70 or a FN SPR and want a no mod DBM with the quality of AI, or how about getting closer to the lands than what the factory mag will allow... PTG's new win70/FN SPR DBM :D...

She shoots :D 3 shots 1000y ~6” This was with 140 A-max Lapua brass and H4350, right around 44g which runs ~2830 from my rifle. At 100y this load and rifle are out shooting me and I have shot groups in the .3’s but typically I will see that one hole group growing and blow the group on my...

FWIW, YMMV, IMHO and all that jazz... :rolleyes: My 260 prefers H4831sc if I can stuff enough in the case for the 139-142 weight class. With lapua brass that doesn't always happen with my chamber specs. Reformed Winchester 7mm-08 brass usually works better for internal case volume... because...

A 155 hybrid .284 BC around .550-.590, that would be a "game changer" :D well... maybe not but still pretty cool for the 7mm-08, saum, wsm shooters

In my day pack or on me for hunting will be found a laser range finder/bino combo, kestrel, air density ballistic chart and a topo map, lots of water, snack or two, extra batteries, ammo, rifle, bipod, rear bag, knives for field dressing, some 550 cord, paper towels and optics brush. Depending...