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  1. davere

    Ingenuity Powder System

    I've got a 1/4" steel plate that sits on Sorbothane feet that does much the same thing, yeah - I can bump the bench pretty firmly and the scale doesn't register it at all
  2. davere

    Kestrel Meters Ballistics Official Thread

    Like I said - I agree it shouldn't be required - it changes the nature of the bug description (and also means there's a workaround)
  3. davere

    School me on the Samson/review.

    The MDT bottom metal has a very nice adjustable mag catch, too, FWIW (same as the ACC Elite chassis's mag catch). Overall, I prefer the feel of stocks. Unfortunately, I have a fat face. The Samson was just too wide for my face, even with the cheekpiece pushed all the way to the side. I had a...
  4. davere

    Kestrel Meters Ballistics Official Thread

    I agree in advance that it shouldn't be required - but have you tried connecting to your Kestrel via BT, and see if those menus change state?
  5. davere

    Ingenuity Powder System

    I'd expect that, yeah - $55 for the part... implies manufacturing cost of $20-25... I have no idea how to compare between a printed part and a machined aluminum part as far as cost estimating, etc, goes, but that feels cheaper than a machined part might be? There are folks on this forum that...
  6. davere

    Ingenuity Powder System

    We could guess at a number of reasons... - cost of manufacture - speed of manufacture - potential advantages of materials used vs metal - manufacturing in-house vs. outsourced - rapid iteration/improvement of parts Depending on material used, you won't notice a practical difference vs. a...
  7. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    When I bought the Giraud, you couldn't get a Henderson (they were doing the "no backorders, better jump on our site right away when we drop them, and we're not gonna tell you when that's gonna happen" game), and the Giraud was a long wait, but you could at least order one and wait for it... so...
  8. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    Having used the machine both ways, it's significantly less effort using the tool than using bare hands - and it's manipulating bigger/"friendlier" interfaces (the handle and "power grip" take much less fine motor control, etc).
  9. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    Took me an extra half day, sorry 🙃 Here's a vid showing the Power Adapter assembly - roughly how it goes together, and using it...
  10. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    Can you operate with one hand? Cause the shell plate based tool is both easy and fast (see my next post)....
  11. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    If you order all the parts together, K&M will assemble it for you, actually - so I received mine already assembled. I have a couple hundred cases that need trimming - I'll try to shoot some video later today, if I get a moment.
  12. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    Fanbois gonna fanboi
  13. davere

    Varget vs N140

    A while back, PRS Blog did some testing - https://precisionrifleblog.com/2016/06/19/powder-temp-stability-hodgdon-extreme-vs-imr-enduron/ - only Varget and H4350 are available now, but it gives you some sense of what "temperature insensitive" is. My current lot of Varget is about .5 fps per...
  14. davere

    Giraud Power Case Trimmer Ya, Nay

    I mean, an end mill in a drill press would do the same thing as a flat cutter, and prolly be cheaper w/ a Harbor Freight drill press ... essentially just like using a Worlds Finest Trimmer (which would be even cheaper) I use a Giraud after several years of using a Worlds Finest. It gets better...
  15. davere

    Varget vs N140

    Varget seems to have come down ever so slightly, and VV up slightly - PV has it for $380/8. N150 is $313/8. I bought 16# of N150 a few months back - Varget was $415 and N150 was $285 at that point.
  16. davere

    6gt

    You may not be seeing it - and if so, good for you. You only have to Google "wet tumble peening case mouths" to find threads here and on a number of other forums. In my friend's case, he stopped wet tumbling, and the problem stopped immediately. The only thing he changed was tumble method. Might...
  17. davere

    6gt

    Half the problem is *inside* - the peening effectively rounds an edge inside and and out. If you're not chamfering the inside of the neck, too, you're only getting half of it. When you seat a bullet, it pushes that peened edged outward, and you get what you're seeing. If the cutter on your...
  18. davere

    6gt

    I don’t wet tumble personally - but I’ve seen that exact symptom from a buddy who wet tumbled - to the point that he had to go buy a drill and file to file down the corners of his case mouths at a match. Making sure he fully deburred and chamfered his cases fixed it - the problem is, the...
  19. davere

    6gt

    @farrar86 - Are you tumbling your cases? Wet or dry, if so? Did you trim this batch of cases and make sure you've chamfered and deburred correctly? Do you have a micrometer you can measure the case mouth on some rounds? Does it happen to all/most or just a few, relatively speaking? It sounds...
  20. davere

    6gt

    I'm convinced that the top from a copier/printer paper box is the perfect case lubing tray
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