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Chris-NZ

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  • Birthday 08/31/1957

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    Hawkes Bay, NZ
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    Hunting, varminting, target shooting. Sea and trout fishing

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  1. It has been used especially in the US but has very adherents. The reason for this is recoil. Very few shooters are able to tolerate extended fire with a round of that power without accuracy suffering. Just because someone can tolerate a grunty sporter for a few rounds doesn't mean they will be able to handle a WM or WSM in FO. But hey, you may be the rare exception.
  2. I found them fine for Lapua brass. Delay was simply the current international postal cr@p..
  3. One big thing with PCPs is improved neighbourly relations if you live on small blocks. My neighbours are unaware I'm using the PCP but even the quietest rimfire round is usually detectable to them. I can be knocking over pest birds and bunnies without them being concerned.
  4. Yeh, I'm not qualified to comment as I only tutored stats at uni. Forgotten most now but still remember enough to know 5 data points is a token effort at best. In the end, ES is the telling thing with target work, ie, your worst outliers which cost the points.
  5. Ok, my "analysis" is your data is so limited is that you are unable to draw any valid conclusions. It's pointless talking SD with such minute samples. You'd warm up with an ES assessment with 10 shots and more realistically 20 if you're serious. As for pressure, only a strain gauge will tell you the actual pressure. Modelling will give you an idea of ballpark. I'd rely more on signs like primer flattening and difficult bolt lift ultimately. I'd suggest you focus more on groups than "statistics"
  6. A comment about durability- I have sitting on the back of the bench a dead Lyman borecam. A wire has clearly broken just out of the cam tube so it's basically a write-off as no spares available. I was very gentle with it, as with all important cables, but this one did little mileage
  7. My suggestion is to get the rigid WiFi version and just use your phone as the screen.
  8. Thousands of Tikkas are done here and they all shoot afterwards. My gunsmith mate has bin fulls of ~6" T3 offcuts, mainly from 7-08s and 308s. If someone tells you it can't be done, I'd suggest it's time to find another gunsmith.
  9. That may be true for button-rifled barrels but not really an issue for cut rifled. A TrueFlite (buttoned) barrel can open up a good thou with fluting. Somewhat counter-intuitively, Tikka barrels which are hammer forged can happily tolerate fluting without bore distortion.
  10. While I'm an FO shooter, as Furrybean has said the growth area is FTR, at least here in NZ. More specifically, our category of "FTR Classic" has taken off. This is limited to rifles shooting 155s and allows far more people to compete without the arms/$$ race that FTR became. Many serious FTR ( fast twist/ heavies) rigs are only a tad removed from full-blown FO, ie too expensive for many folks. With Classic, shooters can start cheaply by getting an old target rifle, throwing a scope and bipod on it and they're away. There's nothing to stop you changing to FO later, in fact FTR is a great training ground as you'll learn wind better.
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