Recent content by DSPguy

I bought 20 cases from Bell to try them out... the max deviation in weight was only 1.6 grains. That's much better than my Lapua brass, but the Lapua brass has a drilled flash hole, chamfered neck, and is about 10 grains heavier. BeLL has received mixed reviews, however, they manufacture the...

I examined the inside of my barrel and it looks like a copper mine! Butch's Bore Shine is a very good copper solvent... I wonder what's going on! Maybe Barnes recently stopped using copper for X bullets I thought that no copper fouling during break-in was too freaky to be true... Brent...

Well, I broke in the barrel today on my TRG-S in .338 Lapua Magnum and have a few observations. First, whatever Sako did when they created the barrel, it keeps out the copper---there was zero copper fouling (especially surprising with Barnes X bullets). I mean absolutely zero detectable copper...

Re: TRG-S, or where\'s the beef? Here's some actual recoil (free recoil) measurements: TRG-S + scope (~9.25 lbs), .338 Lapua, 250 gr. Nosler: 43.6 ft-lbs 9.00 lb rifle, 7mm Rem. Mag, 175 gr. Nosler: 23.5 ft-lbs 9.00 lb rifle, .25-06 Rem., 115 gr. Nosler: 13.5 ft-lbs So, in terms of free recoil...

Re: TRG-S, or where\'s the beef? Sako75, glad to hear that someone has had a good experience with the TRG-S! I must admit, the 7mm mag is much more pleasant in a light rifle. It took a long time to displine myself to shoot my then wildcat .338-378 Wby well (no brake). I'm moving over to the...

TRG-S, or where\'s the beef? This is my first post, so please be gentile I ordered a Sako TRG-S in .338 Lapua to try something new, and while I really like the action, it does seem a little narrow to me for such a large diameter cartridge (it's 1.28" side-to-side over the shank). The barrel...