Recent content by 65WSM

You seem to have some concern for barrel life. Do you shoot coated bullets in nitrocarburized barrels? Are you using the Bartlein PH17-4 alloy barrels? Or the Walther German barrels with the same longer lasting alloy? No naked bullets!

Different importers from Bufors. I remember when Norma 205 first became available for a short period of time in the US (it was replaced on the shelf by "MRP"). Jack OConnor devoted a column in Outdoor Life to handloading the .270 Win with several different bullets (150 gr for his Wifes rifle...

I have loaded for both since the 1970s, I will bet that most shooters won't find any difference between the two cartridges. If you blindfolded them, they couldn't tell you which was which. As with most rifle cartridges, how much barrel are you willing to walk around with in front of you, how...

Does it have a trigger? It looks like it has a trigger. Why the 20 MOA base with only a twenty power scope? I shot groups at 500 meters today. That is 8 MOA with my 28" barreled creedmore. I am not familiar with Seeking rings. Is that Seekins? Show me the groups?

I have had 5 of these rifles, I am now down to a Browning replica Highwall with a 28 inch octagonal barrel and a heavy barreled A-Bolt with a thumbhole stock. I have found that Accurate Magpro has given amazing velocities in this cartridge with 120 to 150 gr bullets. Often 150 fps faster than...

I shoot 600 yard groups. I also have three .224 Valkyrie AR groups under an inch at 500 meters (see attached photo). 6 GT because you can get highest quality cases from Alpha with small rifle primers. With 105-108 gr bullets, it is truely a thousand yard cartridge. The 6mm bullets create...

I have had fifteen barrels, salt bath nitrided, Some using non toxic salts (Melonited) and arsenic salts, both new barrels and used. I have worn out seven 17 Reminton, 6.5 WSM, 6.5-284 Win .22-250 AI, .204 Ruger, .20 PPC. Since I use HBN coated bullets, I can take advantage of the speed from...

Since I started the endorsement of Retumbo. Retumbo is still temperature stable and accurate, but Reloader 26 is a hundred and a quarter feet per second faster with comparable pressures and still room in the case. Since I hunt big game, deer and elk, during cold weather, usually one side of...

How warm are the Swiss Nitrocheme 2000MR, 4000MR and the analogs from Florida, Match and 6.5 StaBall?

I have handloaded the .243 Win for decades and the 6mm Remington as well. As a handloader, I appreciate the longer neck of the 6mm Creedmore. It serves as a heat sink, reducing heat damage to the critical forward part of the chamber. The 6mm Creedmore also has the accuracy encouraging one and...

Don't get fooled that the most expensive and smallest particle size HBN is worthwhile. I spent a few years in the steel coatings "paint" industry. The larger particles are more wear resistant and probably better at separating bullet jackets from barrel steel as the bullets travel down the...

What if cleaning a rifle bore, at the end of your cases, is brushing out a slippery white ring, instead of a diamond hard black ring? What if HBN or some other bullet coating, can reduce the strokes with a brush or the number of patches by half? What if I believe it is more like two thirds...

Quickload predictive software has a provision for coated bullets. It predicts both lower peak pressure and lower velocities for the same powder charge with coated bullets. The "coated" bullet variable is user tunable. I tune the "coated" variable to the measured velocity as I continue to load...

I used a rotary "Thumbler's" tumbler for six years, he is a local guy, Auburn, but I went back to the vibrator because it is easier on .224 Hornady plastic tipped ELD bullets.