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naw, she's a sweetheart.

but the hangover was a little much for me last time I shot it.

I'll be on my best behavior this weekend hoping for sunshine & low winds so I can give a serious effort.

Big thanks to Avagadro who sent me a "spare press"

nice little lee press to help me get started with my reloading efforts. I picked up a shell holder for it & I have the dies, got brass, powder from backwoodsbrian, it's coming around. I'll pick up some primers & bullets as soon as i can find the primers & I'll mess around with it a little this summer. No rush, plenty of time & it is showing promise with the win fact loads.

Just had to post the big thanks to Avagadro, I really appreciate it!!

Dave

Dave,

Did you shoot it again? How was it?

no time man... soon i hope.

Dave ... better it getting used by you, than collecting dust with me. Hope it serves you well.

Damn ... wish I woulda thunked about it. While on vacation visiting a bud in OK he had a 505 scale I could snagged for free for you too (I gave it to him a few years ago and he never got into rolling his own). It was missing the basket and pan. Opportunity lost.

oh you've done plenty George! I appreciate the thought tho.

I'll likely go with a kit something like the Lee 50th anniversary kit. it has a safety scale in it along with all the regular goodies. Even a press, so I could set the press you gave me up for sizing & primer removal & use the other one for seating the boolits, or vice versa.



I've seen that lee anniversary kit for as little as 85 bucks.

Well I had partial boxes of win powerpoint & rem core lokt to empty.

I got to it this weekend & I had nice shootimng conditions, I put a good honest effort into the powerpoints first with the results showing several 3 round groups at about 1 - 1/4 inch.

Then I grabbed the partial box of rem green box & started slinging them out there with low expectations.

the rem green box surprised me.

I cranked out 4 inside an inch & I hosed up my fifth shot, pulled it right. My bench is an old cable spool, not the right height. seat is a plastic stack chair, too high & on uneven ground. My left fore arm was getting wacked hard by a sheetmetal edge on my rest... things weren't perfect. (these are my excuses)

anyway, here we go, signs of prommise.

Is that what you were expecting?

well, it shows prommise. So I'm happy I guess.

I scored some primers for this thing at bass pros on my trip to louisville. They only had 3 packs in the store & they happened to be the right ones for the .264 so i bought them.

for a hunting rifle (as opposed to a bench gun) that group looks great to me. i'd take her hunting asap.

what kinds of groups are you wanting before you declare the rifle "ready"?

Oh I'm with you, no doubt in my mind it's ready.



I'm not one bit dissapointed with it. I do look forward to loading my own for this one though & just tinkering around.

but it's ready to go hunting as far as i'm concerned.

Nice job and nice documentation! Thanks for sharing the great work!

Baron von moderator, please yoink yon shticky...

Why (not a moderator or a baron, but curious)

because it's been hovering up at the top of the page long enough

You really want to be pulled down Dave?

Maybe we need a DYI forum, for us guys that will "get around" to a project like this.

Don't be so self concious about it Dave, people are still looking at it.

It's a good reference. Shane (Montanamarine)had a good one kind of like yours that I can't find anymore.

It's a great reference and one that needs to stay up as a sticky! I have a Ruger M77/MkII in 7mm RM that needs a free float and glass bedding, but I don't think I trust myself enough. Even with your awesome guide. ;-)

So, how did the handloading go with this rifle? Any updates?

DYI forum's a good idea. Threads like this are worth keeping somewhere.