Recent content by msalm

You can pull till the cows come home and not budge it...you need impact. Once good whack with the proper instrument and you'd have had it off in a flash. That doesn't mean a really big hammer either...those are more of a dull thud and don't provide the necessary shock. Think lighter and...

I’ve taken off a half dozen of the minis now and it no issue. The Brownell wrench works well with a flat bottom and 1.350” diameter contour for the top. Tighten it all up and give it a whack. I use a 3 Ft 1.25” square bar of brass to swing/hit the handle....it works ten times better than any...

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Have a new Howa action with a new Rock Creek in 243 Win bedded in a Brownells Walnut stock if you might be interested in that.

Have a new Howa action with a new Rock Creek in 243 Win bedded in a Brownells Walnut stock if you might be interested in that.

I’d take the Howa Mini stock, PM sent.

If you aren’t going to save the barrel, just have it cut and recontoured to what you want...MUCH more economical and it will likely still shoot as well as it did previously.

For all the naysayers on re-contouring a button rifled barrel, you do realize they are contoured after rifling by the manufacturer (and most often after a second heat/stress relief). If you choose to turn it down some more, it’s nothing that doesn’t happen anyway. Sure you might want to cast a...

The tubes are the same, the buffer and spring are different between the 10 and 15.

Actually the new smokeless muzzleloader may in fact just use a center fire action, the old 700MZ is the type with no locking lugs.

I just built a couple ar barrels on green mountain blanks. After contouring them I hand lapped the bores, chambered /threaded and drilled the ports. Both of those barrels shoot sub 1/2 MOA. One five shot group at 250 was .9" outside to outside. Even before lapping those barrels were much...

I didn't see any more or less wear on tooling with the LW Stainless, but it does cut 'differently'. Muzzle flush coolant is supposedly the way to go with them, but I did it without. You need to feed pretty hard as the steel will workharden if you don't keep the reamer cutting. While cutting it...

That would be because a button doesn't 'cut' anything, it swages the steel into shape and at those pressures the carbide works better, can be polished to just as fine of finish, and typicall is coated. Buttoning a barrel would be far easier than cut. Probably the hardest part in either...

Marble, I used the 140gr accubond at 3150fps this year and performance was somewhat puzzling, but still good. At 500 yards my first shot was about 10-12" behind the shoulder. No sign of a hit, and upon inspection, no exit. Second shot I held a bit forward and hit him on the shoulder maybe...