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Haven't threw a bunch of money down the crapper lately. Think I'm going to call Shilen on Monday and talk to them about a Stainless, Sporter contour, standard crown, 24-26inch, 1-8 twist.
Then I'll have to sit around wait until some 150gr Sierras hit a shelf. I have some 140,143,147gr choices on the reloading bench if I can't stand the wait.

Questions, 1) any reason 7RM brass won't be an easy pass through the 264 die, load, shoot?
2) Wait times at Shilen?
3) Any other things I need to work out before hand?

What's your beef with Douglas and Shaw? I have had great results with several Douglas barrels and 1 Shaw barrel in the last 10 years or so.

^ I burned up a Lilja. It was a good barrel while it lasted, but my kriegers have been phenomenal.

Only two barrels in my career would not shoot - one was a Pac-Nor which they took back, inspected it and found a problem and shipped me a new one.. The other was a Krieger, #8 contour, and the owner just told me to round-file it and replace it with a Lilja.. Problem solved..

I have only one beef with Kriege - that they refuse (for the most part) to provide an SS barrel under #5 for magnums... Hopefully that's been changed, but that was their policy at the time..

Pisted this before, my .264.

Used a Lilja 9 twist as that's what they had on hand. Stabilizes the 140 Berger fine.

I have heard red that Melvin at NULA only uses Douglas barrels. I wonder if he gets the cream of the crop!

Damn that’s sexy… 👍

Find and buy some 264 WM brass, crod down in the classifieds has it from time to time, i recently bought 250 sticks once fired WW Super brass for 65 bucks shipped, buy all the RL-33 powder you can find, it works from 139gr Scenars to the big 160gr Woodleighs i shoot in my 9 twist pre-64 Westerner.

Uh huh. Very nice.

Necking down does create doughnuts. The Test: insert a bullet in a fired case until it goes past the shoulder neck junction. If there is a doughnut, the bullet will Stop like it hit a brick wall.

Heavy sumnabitch though.

Nothing to add about the 7mag cases but I just put together a .264 on a Howa 1500 with a take off from Preferred barrels. 7.5 twist with a long throat. 65.5 grains of IMR8133 pushes a 147 ELDM at 3050. Haven’t chrono’d the 153 A-tip or the 156 Berger but they sure shoot good. 1/2 moa thereabouts.

I use Retumbo but the same idea. Plenty of 264 around.

I bet. Mine is fed 140 Accubonds mostly. Or the 140 Ballistic Tips. Both shoot the same for me.

Yep, i took the forearm screw out of my pre 64 264 stock, loaded some 139 Scenars with RL-33 and was amazed! got a pile of 160gr woodies loaded, when they're gone that Scenar may get the job.