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  1. memilanuk

    Chassis help for……Savage

    Rather than re-type everything, I'm just going to drop these two links: https://www.savageshooters.com/content.php?128-Savage-Action-Lengths https://support.mdttac.com/articles/does-my-savage-fit ...which are literally the first two results for a simple Google search for "Savage action hole...
  2. memilanuk

    Is it worth reloading precision ammo on a single stage versus progressive press?

    If you already have the 550 and are comfortable it's operation, I'd say it'd be a relatively easy step up to a two tool-head 'hybrid mode on the 550. I really don't think that you'd be leaving much, if anything on the table as far as accuracy for the styles of shooting commonly discussed here...
  3. memilanuk

    Powder Dispensing Accuracy & Match Dies

    The reason people went to the 0.02 gn accuracy is that it's *plus or minus* 0.02 gn, vs *plus or minus* 0.1 gn. If your load is right in the middle of a big fat charge node, then yes, +/- 0.1 is fine, or at least 'good enough'. Back in the before-times - I.e. 'before Hornady thought it was the...
  4. memilanuk

    Powder Dispensing Accuracy & Match Dies

    Blanket statements like that are disingenuous at best. *Short range* BR shooters *used* to throw all their charges. More and more use pre-weighed charges, or bring the scale to the range with them. *Long range* BR shooters (600 & 1k) have never used thrown charges. The nodes they're after...
  5. memilanuk

    212eldx in .308 hybrid cases?

    Link?
  6. memilanuk

    Coup De Grâce, New Action from American Rifle Company, $899 WOW!

    'release', as in 'AD', or something else?
  7. memilanuk

    Primer seating depth?

    ^ this Can't emphasize this enough. It's all well and good to go down the rabbit hole chasing the last nth degree of perfection... sometimes it's a matter of priorities. Not at least bottoming out the primer in the pocket will lead to inconsistent ignition, but beyond that... there's a whole...
  8. memilanuk

    Primer seating depth?

    Primers aren't a one-piece thing. There's the cup, the anvil, and the compound. The primer as a whole should be seated deep enough to where the anvil is contacting the bottom of the pocket, but (usually) not so far as bottom out the cup in the pocket. You can't (generally) compress the cup...
  9. memilanuk

    Expander ball resistance

    As in "holy $hit, way too much"
  10. memilanuk

    Rechambering a burnt barrel

    I think this was more popular/common 'back in the day' when barrels were harder to come by, and almost nobody - not even gunsmiths - had reliable access to borescopes. A 'shade tree' smith could rechamber an old barrel for someone a lot faster/cheaper than getting a new one in. The 'new'...
  11. memilanuk

    Mandrel expander

    Sold mine; went back to the Sinclair / 21st Century dies & mandrels.
  12. memilanuk

    Mandrel expander

    ^ this I love LE Wilson products, generally. They're literally about 5 minutes from my house; great folks. But what they were thinking when they decided to jump in the mandrel die business, with a special one-off unicorn die that can't use existing 'standard' mandrels... dunno 🤷‍♂️
  13. memilanuk

    To Arbor Press or not?

    Dunno about the rest of the crowd. Pretty sure @padom shoots a little better than that on occasion ;) I know I do. That said... I can seat loaded rounds with an sleeved/inline micrometer seating die (Forster, Redding, etc.) off my 550 that rivals what I get out of my K&M arbor press + Wilson...
  14. memilanuk

    Anyone here using the Hornady A tip bullets? (.308)

    Is there a go-to amount of jump that seems to work well with these bullets in a 308?
  15. memilanuk

    Maggie’s The Wood Shop

    Got it unloaded and on the mobile base; made a trip to the Borg for a plug to fit my wall outlets. It fired right up (I'd already ran it at the seller's shop) and I ran some rough 8/4 poplar over/through it. Yay!
  16. memilanuk

    Maggie’s The Wood Shop

    Well... this is exciting... for me, at least ;) Just sold the DW735 planer. Got a guy coming to buy the 8" bench top jointer this afternoon. Why, you ask? Because I *finally* found a screamin' deal on a combo jointer/planer machine (Jet JJP-12), about five minutes from my house. Went and...
  17. memilanuk

    Prefit match barrels with test target?

    For me... I'd call it a custom. Custom dimensions, done as a one-off to your specs. 'Pre-fits', at least in my mind, are more generalized - a 'standard' reamer for a common cartridge like 6.5CM (or whatever) made en masse. They still might be very high quality, and very consistent from one to...
  18. memilanuk

    To Arbor Press or not?

    Might stop and consider how many people outside of this forum actually use the SAC 'Infinity' die. All the guys using arbor presses to shoot actual Benchrest, or even F-class? Probably using Wilson dies, if not custom. Just sayin'...
  19. memilanuk

    Prefit match barrels with test target?

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's also quite common - if not mandatory - in much of Europe for barrels to be proof tested before being shipped out. There's no such requirement here in the states, so it's more the exception than the norm for barrel makers / gunsmiths to put rounds through the...
  20. memilanuk

    What happened to Conservatism

    You must not peruse the Bear Pit very often, then... ;)
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