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    Varget in 6mm GT (sorry so fabulous i forgot to add which 6)

    Pfft. I grew up loading Unique in pistol and shotgun rounds. Still do. That stuff seems akin to black powder wrt fouling. But the nastiest "modern" powder for me is CFE223. Greasy black fouling in .223... but hey, it meters so nice so it's a go-to for bulk ammo loaded on a progressive press...
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    Trimming

    This post may be viewed as descriptions of the tools you don't want. ------- My most accurate trimmer (+/- .001") is a '70s vintage Forster trimmer with a chamfering head. I replaced the hand crank with a 1/2" bolt and drive the thing with an electric drill. Note that it trims to absolute length...
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    Range carts

    I use a faded putrid-green '90s-vintage jogging stroller with all the extraneous bits removed. The only thing I'll note is that ATV gun brackets don't work for me for carrying a rifle. Reason: center of gravity is too high for a 15-20 pound rifle - too easy for the whole thing to tip over on...
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    Long gong

    I shot one here in central NC back in December. To my knowledge, the folks/venue involved in that one haven't done another... if another has been held, the organizer didn't reach out about it. I would definitely attend. My understanding is the COF we had was "standard" for long gong: 8/6/4"...
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    New Applied Ballistics® Quantum™ APP! - & It's Free!

    Wow, coming from a guy whose all-of-121-posts presence here on SH is 90+ percent PX stuff... not one post that I can see having anything to do with actual shooting experience... yeah, dude, your opinion has been given all the consideration it's worth. Another great thing about American...
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    New Applied Ballistics® Quantum™ APP! - & It's Free!

    Thanks for a thoughtful reply to my pissy-sounding post. Not my finest moment, and I apologize for the way I came across. What bugged me was hitting the range limit within minutes of beginning to experiment with the app. Yes, Ultra-Light is free, and I expected a reduced feature set (like no...
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    New Applied Ballistics® Quantum™ APP! - & It's Free!

    Thanks for this. I need to dig deeper. It isn't clear yet how to acquire Elite for a one-time fee.
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    New Applied Ballistics® Quantum™ APP! - & It's Free!

    Well. I will need a Strelok replacement before long, so I downloaded AB Quantum from the Apple app store - v3.4.3 build 172. Before I gripe about the free version, I'll say that I'm intrigued enough to play with this app a little in the coming weeks, but it's going to have to show me a LOT more...
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    DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

    Thumb button is a necessity. Absence of said button in a top-shelf magazine (and platform that uses the mag) is ample reason for me to walk away.
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    6mm BR

    I have lucked into a mild, cheap 6BR load that shows amazing promise: 105gr Barnes Match Burner 29.4gr Vihtavuori N150 --> 2770fps (28" 1:7.5 Bartlein) CCI 450 Alpha brass (virgin and 9x-fired) I'm getting consistent 5-shot 100-yard groups in the .3s and quite a few in the .2s, and the load...
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    Barnes Match Burners 6mm 105 grain

    Brief addition to this old / sorta-resurrected thread: I have lucked into a mild, cheap 6BR load that shows amazing promise: 105gr Barnes Match Burner 29.4gr Vihtavuoru N150 --> 2770fps (28" 1:7.5 Bartlein) CCI 450 Alpha brass (virgin and 9x-fired) I'm getting consistent 5-shot 100-yard groups...
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    DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

    My response may be a little weird, but it's a data point: I have zero gripes about my 10-round polymer and 15-round aluminum mags in my gen-1 V22 mounted in MPA BA Comp chassis (with adjustable mag latch). Once the adjustable latch was in place and I learned to load the mags correctly, feeding...
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    talk me outta a MOA scope….😳

    Lemme see heah, y'all. I look through my scope and it has this scale thingie that's supposed to be in something called "milliradians" or "mils." It looks t'me like .2 mils is .2 mils no matter how far away the target is. I used to have scopes that were labeled in moa's. I remember looking...
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    Out of the box problems with my ZCO 527

    Another story from old guy about arrogance. It's good for a grin, an eye roll, and a karma sort of thing but otherwise useless. I WAS THAT GUY. First programming job, back in the heyday of IBM mainframes. Total newbie. I was tasked with creating a very simple program to read and format data...
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    6Mm GT load. Any help appreciated.

    I started 6BR with Alpha brass, Varget, and CCI450 primers. You're golden there. (I won't buy Varget anymore; Vihtavuori N150 is way cheaper and has doen great so far.) Variety of bullets, including your Berger 105 Hybrids. All have done fine. I'd advise against putting all your chips on data...
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