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PVA's 2025 "Freedom From The Crown Sale"

The annual Freedom From the Crown sale goes up tomorrow. The code is "FFTC2025" and that gets you 14.92% off everything listed in the sale folder under "Freedom From The Crown Sale".

Barrels, blanks, prefits, bullets, glock barrels, comps, etc... all on sale.


A new launch product for this year is a new barreled action option from a company that everyone will be familiar with on a work product end... though I suspect few know their name. Warwick Tactical has been making white-label products in the 2011 and precision rifle market industry for many years. They make many of the biggets name actions currently on the market, even ones that might claim "our shop"...

This is a 3 lug, 60 degree throw, fat bolt design that's made in an aerospace grade shop.
Interchangeable bolt heads that are compatible with the Solus (IE solus owners still waiting on a 223 bolt head, call me I have them)
Origin prefits fit
Quick Change barrels via set screw
"Fat Bolt" design that feeds flawlessly with AICS and AW pattern magazines
Dual lobe cocking cam with dual rollers on the cam itself.
DLC Coated
223, 308, and standard Mag bolt heads available
Improved lock time (appx 16% faster) and striker energy (8%) over many of the common aftermarket actions.

There is a limited quantity available for this sale at $1399 complete barreled action using a Rock Creek blank. Upgrades to the Osprey blank with other caliber options are available at $1549. This limited availability is for the first 20 actions only.

We've been shooting one of the prototypes for several weeks in the shop and they're just awesome!

The retail price on the action alone after this sale will be $1199; for those counting that's like getting a PVA prefit Rock Creek for $200... IE the cost of the blank.

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Caliper test

I use a Mitutoyo Coolent Proof Absolut caliper for reloading. I also inherited boxes of micrometers from dad that I'm sure I'll use someday for something. (I must have been an engineer in a previous life.) I am really curious-what technology is used today for accurate measurements?
Lasers incorporated into various tools can accurately measure to a very very small degree.
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Where to source different bullet seating stems?

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This is no where near acceptable… 169gr SMK on the left, 174gr ELD-VT on the right.

My guess is the seating stem has to narrow of a “cup” for the nose of the bullet? What’s the best way to resolve this? I have heard you can get different stems for different bullet profiles?
You experiencing quite a bit of pressure when seating those bullets (which might not be felt when using presses like Forster's Co Ax)?

What I did to elevate any ring from the seating process is to spin a bullet coated with some polishing compound into the seating stem, using an electric drill. I no longer have this issue, even when seating is firmer than it should be. This is the compound I used:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072JR2B6K?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

Aero Solus 4th of July Sale

PVA is going to have their annual Freedom From The Crown sale starting on July 1st through July 10th, so anyone who does decide to get an action through Aero can get a really good prefit through us at PVA and I'm highly confident that our barrels will out shoot the ones that Aero sells...

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Great, you probably just cost me money, dude. And yes, your solus prefits hammer. Even my lower tier non osprey prefit from you guys exceed my expectations.
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Springfield Waypoint—an owner's story of disappointment and abject failure

When catastrophic failure is used in firearms it’s typically reserved for when you blow the whole thing up. Not a simple part failure.

Edit: Actually, that’s the denotative definition of the term. You’re just using it incorrectly.

"A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible."
Op is clutching pearls and broken fp. It sucks that the first barrel appeared to be a tomato stake and that the fp broke. The 2nd barrel was fine, but sounds like you wanted it to perform like an mtu profile and handle long, multiple strings of fire. That will always cause bullet dispersion with a carbon barrel and is also pretty hard on a barrel that is made for 1-2 shots in the field, hunting.

And this thread is 2 yrs old, holy shit I need to pay attention to the post dates

Cleaning for Carbon

I had a carbon ring buildup on my 6.5 PRC this past weekend. The rifle only has ~250 rounds down the barrel all of which have been factory hornady ammo. Is that carbon buildup normal and is there anything I can do to prevent it?

I wish I had found this thread before i cleaned it. I ran a nylon brush through it a lot, let swabs soak with bore tech cleaner and after what felt like a million patches I got it clean enough it feeds rounds without marking up the bullet.