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I see no point in beating about the bush Ronny. Not everyone likes brutal honesty, but thats just me...i call a spade a spade mate. Cz claiming they choke a hammer forged barrel is akin to polishing a turd. Nothing wrong with hammer forged barrels...they shoot, but they are at the bottom of the pile of methods for producing a close tolerance barrel. The choke will only make up for loose tolerances up and down the blank. Only Anschutz also choke the barrels on a rimfire. It certainly produces accurate barrels, but they stay as accurate, when shortened. Far more to do with producing a good quality blank in the first place methinks. If a choke was such a brilliant thing, every barrel manufacturer would use it.

Thats a load of crap. I,ve shortened hundreds of cz,s down to the legal minimum in cases [ 30 cms ] and improved the accuracy of every one. The choke makes no difference on them [if it actually exists ] CZ started to produce the 16" rimfire, after they visited the shop where i then worked [syss ] during a trip over to visit the importers. A rimfire bullet burns all its powder inside 9".

I built a subsonic .308 about 6 months ago for a customer, who is now having a k-hornet built. I will ask him what his loads are, as it all worked out very well for him.

Here you go. http://www.hodgdon.com/PDF/Trail-Boss-data.pdf Trail boss is a pretty failsafe powder to use in a subsonic load, as its virtually impossible to overload it.Be VERY carefull with ANY powder, DOWNLOADING it to subsonic levels. When you get down to tiny loads of blue dot etc [one of the favourite subsonic powders ] you run the very real risk of the powder lying flat in the case, and the primer flashing across the whole surface area of the load in one go, and causing detonation, instead of progressive explosive [which is the norm ] Detonation blows guns up. More guns have been blown up by far, by detonation, than overpowered loads. Trail boss will give a nice case fill, even when downloaded. Andrew on here, is this site,s expert on cast bullets, he,s been at it all his life, maybe he will chime in.

Glad you got sorted. 5/8" unf is almost as common as 1/2" these days, and a better thread on varmint weight barrels. Have a look at this one. I sold one of our mods to a dealer who complained the gun wouldn,t shoot with it on. It was clipping the mod. This is a factory supplied thread [supposedly] on a browning A bolt. It has 2 shoulders, neither of which is square, the thread is tapered, and i cut my hand on the end, and BWM , the importer then had the cheek to tell the dealer that i had invalidated the warranty by correcting all this crap. We then had a quicksilver delivered last week for a .20 remington. The guy bought the gun from elsewhere, and then expected me to take the responsibility for fitting the mod. Quicksilvers are very tight indeed, on the bore to bullet size ratio, and MUST be fitted EXACTLY. The mod wouldn,t even screw down the thread. The mod,s thread was EXACTLY to spec. The barrel wouldn,t even let the GO gauge start, and this is another "factory " thread. Moral in here guy,s. When the importers are paying pence for a threading job....its not worth a chew of bacca. Pay a decent gunsmith to thread your guns, because these two examples were bordering on unsafe.

5/8" x 18 unf is probarbly the most common thread fitted to varmint weight barrels there is. I do all our jobs in this format, unless asked specifically for metric. The problem is that most people wont shell out for a set of industry standard, and certified thread ring gauges. They are around £80 each. We have one for every thread size we cut. It means there is no argument from the customer, regarding tight mods etc.....because when its cut to an industry standard....its the mod thats wrong, simple as that. If you have bought the mod from Pete Jackson, he will take it back and supply you with one in this thread.

1200 grit wet and dry, a cup of warm water with a squirt of fairy liquid in, and wet flat the entire stock down, getting rid of blebs, lumps etc.Keep drying it off with a rag, and flat the shiny bits left. once its all level, and flat, apply T-Cut, and rub well in, then buff off.You will need to do it a few times, but t-cut brings the shine back faster than any other polish.

Firms its always a pleasure to deal with, because their service to the trade is always rapid. Peter jackson. Julian Savoury [pes mods] That shagwit in huddersfield....Jaeger sporting arms. Midway UK are pretty good with us. Border barrels, Les is a smashing fella, and ALWAYS helps. Graham at sporting services, another gent. Good old Brian Fox. I would not hesitate to recommend any of these people, though not all supply retail.

My own take on the sako/tikka 1 in 10 twist is this.People tend to use them for deer, almost certainly when using 100 grain bullets.dont take this the wrong way chaps, especially the deer shooters here, but most deer shooters we get in the shop are perfectly happy with the bds 4" group at 100 yards...they think thats adequate for deer, so the sako/tikka twist works for them.Give the same thing to a target shooter, and he will walk away.My sako 75 when it was a .243 wouldnt shoot anything over 87 grains accuratley. I personally believe remington have the best twist rate of 9 and 1/8" it seems to shoot everything from 58 grain v-max, to a 100 grain deer bullet. Incidentally though, i believe the sako/tikka,s perform well with factory 100 grainers, especially sako,s own brand.They could be using a very slow powder, which is apparently one of the tricks to get better accuracy from a 100 grain bullet.

yep.