Recent content by hangfire

Well I'm a Brit and worked for a UK smith, here is my own personal experience with Bergaras. When they were first introduced to the UK a rep brought a sample to us, we checked it out and were quite impressed so we ordered 4. When they arrived the test targets were impressive and the actions...

This has to be a wind up long action cartridge in a short action 😂

I have used dies by all the major die manufacturer's RCBS, Redding ,Forster, Hornady and Lee I have had excellent dies from RCBS, Redding and Forster but I have also had complete dogs from Forster and RCBS by dogs I mean 3-4 thou run out and by excellent I mean 1 thou and under. So far I have...

I love my Forster Coax the priming station and lack of shell holders are great plus factors, however no matter how good the press is it it's only as good as the dies you use.

The answer is and I'm not being funny here, where ever your rifle likes to shoot them. I'd start at the lands and work backwards in 10 thou increments.

185g Berger Classic Hunters

Just look on this as a reminder, no matter how good we are we can still make mistakes

Nothing wrong with the good old 30-06 coupled with a 185 grain bullet

6.5 has the range 308 has the stopping power so if it's 300 yards a 308 twisted 1 in 10 and heavy bullets everytime

I'm with the try other primers lobby

I use Berger 185 classic hunters with Vit N150 and rem 9 1/2 primers gives great results in my 30.06

I'm not an engineer but a friend of mine that is said there is a theory of failure they use to calculate when something will fail. He said if you subject a rifle action to it's designed loads it is almost impossible to calculate when it will fail, but if you subject to higher loads even a few...

We sold Bergara's, we brought in a batch of 3 and were impressed. They had test targets with good results and lovely smooth actions. I was looking for a deer rifle at the time so ordered one in 30.06. When it arrived the test target was not that good, so we bore scoped the barrel it was as rough...

Full length sizing will solve the problem, from what you describe it sounds like you have run out in the chamber and unless you place the round in the chamber in the correct orientation you can't close the bolt

That's what the majority of us hope Brexit will achieve. At least the latest attempt to stop a no deal brexit has been defeated in parliament, It seems some of our MP'S are starting to realise that come the next election a lot will be joining the unemployed