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John doesn't make actions for DCR...they make their own.

No it isn't. Its made by the same man, but my actions have my own spec.

I think HPS have Murom Laurie.

Mick is right. Immediatly after shooting the 338, i tested an AR15 i,d just finished, with a Jet-z on board. Several people commented that they thought they sounded the same ! Thats a .223 and a .338 ! I,ve seen many designs, and makers come and go after having an attempt. Colin knows what he,s talking about, and has the engineering skills and machinery to back it up. I KNOW you are going to do well Colin.

Recieved a very large package from Colin T'other day..... Between us we had come up with a design for my 338. I suspect Colin thought i was mad, its such a big one...fnaar fnaar.... However having had said beastie out on test today, he will see i was was right... This is a MUZZLE mounted silencer, on my .338. I love that anticipation of the first round down a new untested mod, you just dont know what to expect. There was quite a crowd watching too at Mattersey, and to a man, they were astounded. This baby sounds like a silenced 243...i kid you not. It also now recoils like a .308.....without the stab. I,ve never witnessed such a HUGE reduction in muzzle blast, or recoil from a moderator....from any manufacturer. Colin, you need to be contacting the people we spoke of the other day.....urgently. I also have video of the shots on my phone, next time you are in.

The kettle is always on Brother. Ring me when you are somewhere near. Bring buscuits. The choccy ones.......

Colin, can you give me a buzz sometime next week, i want to go ahead with a giant mod for the 338.

You guys may remember Colin asking for field testers for his mods a while back. Colin called in for a natter and a cuppa one day whilst on his travels, and we specced a mod for my AR. Its a stainless steel model, i think it has 8 baffles, and a front blast baflle, all made from stainless, and beautifully machined, and welded.....absolute top drawer worksmanship. Its about the same weight and size as a Jet-Z, and is muzzle mounted [in this instance ]with a 5/8" x 18 UNF thread for my rifle. Took it to the range and fired a few rounds with the mod off, then we put it on. To say i was astounded would be an understatement. This is probarbly the quietest mod i,ve ever heard.Its at quiet as a Jet-z to my ears, but even duller. I already have an order for you Colin, from a chap with an AUG. It also made my AR more accurate. This gun will normally hold 1/2" every time, with some better, as is normal. It was consistently returning .2 groups, and thats 5 shot groups, not 3, with the mod on. The gun obviously likes it on too ! Its gonna get blacked, then become a permanent fixture. What a piece of kit.

BLC-2 is used a lot in commercial loads, because it is, as Barry says, a ball powder...therefore it meters easily.Critical when loading in volume.Its also very dirty. I use nothing but Varget or Vhit 140 in all my .223 and .308 loads. 4895 will probarbly give similar results, as its a similar powder, and one of the oldest powders that Hodgdons make.I used to use Vhit 133 behind a 55 grain v-max and that was a stonking load. Nowadays all my 223 is 77 grain smk loads. Dont rely too heavily on quickload.Its not the Oracle people believe it to be. It takes averages. It cant account for barrel types, bore diameters etc. Its far better to test yourself. Expensive, and time consuming though that might be.

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.