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Pictures of lt. gun .300WSM & 6.5X.284 (hopefully)Have photo bucket..but every time I copy the link and try to submit, computer locks or rejects photo because of size. Lots of good photos but can't make this work. HELP!


Lefty

lefty,

Use my profile and e-mail them to me and I'll get them posted while you figure out Photobucket.com

Regards.

OOPS - use this e-mail: mikemike256264@yahoo.com

Let's see if we can get these up and running...

OK, Got 'em! Now lefty can give you this inside information.

Nononsense,

Thanks for posting,

The .300 WSM is built on a Stolle Grizzly LH. It has been used a Williamsport and Virginia. In competition it has shot 6.9 for 10 shots. Under Ideal conditions it has shot 5+. I just swithched from Norma brass to Winchester and I have to sort through a lot of them to find uniform weights, but the brass is harder and I seem to be getting better accuracy. The Norma brass seems very soft and I had rounds get tight and I know it cost me at Williamsport on the second day. Scope is a 36X Leupie.

I havent worked as much with the 6.5X.284. It is a Nesika "J" action, tracker stock, and Krieger barrel. My son is going to compete with this rifle. So far we have shoot it only at 500 yards and it is grouping 5 into about 1-1/2" with 142gr Sierras, Win. brass, and H4350. Scope is 12X42NF.

Both rifles have Jewell triggers set at 1 1/2 oz.

Now that it's getting cooler we will be working these rifles more and shooting in local GH matches as well.
The pictures could have been better but it was puoring down rain and I was standing outside looking into my workroom.

Lefty

I have quite even trying to use Norma Brass................

A gunsmith built me a 1000 yard gun 18 or 19 years ago. His philosophy was this. The McMillan Winchester Marksman stock would be a good platform. Pillar bed it and bisonite the action. The action cost me a pre 64 winchester .300win mag. He didn't like that and wanted to use a rem. Clean up the trigger and slap on a heavy Lilja barrel, about 7/8" at the muzzle 25 inches long. Talley rings and a 6.5 - 20X Leupold finish it out. The caliber was the .30 - .338 and 168 grain matchkings fired into a small cloverleaf, about 1/4 inch at 100 and a typical 1/2 inch holes touching group at 200 (honest). The 190 Hornady's do the same thing. I use IMR 4350 powder and sice the chamber is cut tight, I neck up 7mm rem mag brass to fit. It weighs about 14 pounds and shoots very well.

robp: The last I heard, to get 1000 yards firing ranges in Rd. Island, the range personnel float a barge out in the Atlantic with the targets on it. Must be HELL on the pit pullers. Regards.

There's a thousand yard range right next door in MA called Woodcock. Peacedale in RI had a thousand but it was closed down. Unless I want to travel, I have to amuse myself shooting aspirin tablets at two hundred yards until out annual trip to NC where I pack about a hundred extra rounds to shoot out on the farmers range and at his deer. Interestingly though, in Newport there is a firing range that uses the Atlantic as a backstop. We could definitely use a a good range and maybe one or two less golf courses around here though.