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1 hour ago, Popsbengo said:

I tried undersizing using a Lee sizing die to resize the wadcutters I purchased from Alan W,  as you say, better fit but very poor accuracy.

Can't be bothered with casting, I don't shoot enough pistol to warrant the effort.  Also I'm not very good....

I wondered about making a press that was sleeved so stopping the bullet distorting under pressure, never got past musing on paper.

 

Just use jacketed bullets!

OK - 53 MOA - half that and add 20MOA for the tapered rail - leaves you around 47 MOA - which should be plenty to get you out to 1000 yards from 100 yd zero.  I can only think that you are using a lot of adjustment just to get a 100 yd zero and there is not enough left for 1000 yds,

With a 6.5 Swede and a 140gn bullet doing 3000fps you should only need about 25 MOA frpm 100 to 1000 yds.  Something is clearly amiss.

Obviously you can't check at the moment but when you can, zero the rifle at 100 yds - then see how much MOA you have left - note you need to be watching the reticle move as you count the clicks - you might be able to keep 'clicking' after the ret. has stopped moving.

Yes it would be safe - but it won't get any better.  You could try to clean it up with a bit of light stoning. 

I hate to see galled lugs. Bolt grease usually prevents it but grit could be the cause. Usually though if you have greased the lugs but a bit of grit gets in there, the shooter would feel it right away before it did so much damage.

Yeah - me too - until we got electronic targets!

Benchrest is hard on barrels.  A half MOA 5-shot group - at 600 yards - is the starting point for a competitive BR gun. 

3 hours ago, TJC said:

How long does a barrel last at that sort of velocity ? 

If you use it for competitive benchrest - i.e 5 rounds fired in 15 to 20 seconds - perhaps 1200 rounds before accuracy starts to tail off.  But, we shoot long-range benchrest every month  (about 30 rounds needed) so, with testing, about 400 rounds per year - the barrel will give you about three years competitive shooting.

Nick - copy Geek above - generally most 6BR shooters with a c.30 inch barrel will be looking for 2950fps with a 105gn bullet.

If you want to increase your muzzle velocity - stop mollying your bullets!  Having said that - chase accuracy not velocity - though for 1000 yard benchrest it's handy to have both!

Diggle Club has seven of its own Shotmarker targets but the GBFCA League uses their own Silver Mountain.

Is this the 'mils' version?

OMG - I suppose somebody had to do it! 

Best wishes with your new venture Andy - Vince

Email me John - targetshooteronline@icloud.com

2 hours ago, John MH said:

I'm after a case for loaded 33XC ammunition, loaded with solids there is not a case available in the UK to fit them at the moment that I can find. Having enquired with a protective case supplying company who do CNC cut foam inserts they have said that there would need to be a minimum order of 10 cases with inserts before they would even consider the CNC set up. Not sure of cost yet but who would be interested in a 50 Round Peli Type (Hurricane Brand)?

 

33xc Cutout.pdf

Actually there is  - the guy in the pic is Benjamin Gineste who won the French KIng of One Mile last month using the 33XC.  The guy who built his rifle also does the ammo cases - Stuart Anselm of GS Precision. I've seen one 'in the flesh' - you won't be dissappointed.

1 hour ago, No i deer said:

Unless I've missed something I've never seen a classifieds on the GB f class association.

I think it's only accessible by GBFCA members.

11 minutes ago, air gunner said:

Hi Guys,

New to this forum, shooting air rifles [& comps] for 20 years and only just found this forum.

Looking at BR indoors as failing health harder to get up/down. BR may just suit...........

Looking forward to a really good read.

Thank you.

You might like to have a look at www.ukbr22.org.uk  Amongst other stuff they run an indoor postal league for air and rimfire.

9 hours ago, Deserttech Europe said:

Not happening Andy

seller has decided to keep it 😫😫

Good on yer Kevin - hope to see it at Diggle next year!

15 hours ago, stottycake said:

Hi guys,

Looking to get a scope for getting out to 2k ,

This will be going on a .338lm,

And I think I'm settled on a march 3-24×52,ffp mil mil,fml1 reticule, and was wondering if any is using it out to 2k,or is it even up to it

I was looking at the stiener t5xi or the m version but after reading up on them it seems the quality leaves a bit to be desired,

Or should I just go s&b pmll,

Budget is £ 2000 ish,

Tia,

Al

Might be interesting to see what the teams were using at the French ELR 1 mile shoot a few days ago.  Personally I'd sooner have the option of 50x and not use it that be struggling with 25x and wish I had more.

I shoot 1000 yard F Class and Benchrest comps frequently and use 35 - 40x most of the time.

1 hour ago, Woodlander said:

Do any right handed shooters use a left handed action in an ambidextrous stock?

Theoretically, you could maintain all critical contact with the rifle and keep your sight picture, whilst cycling the bolt, even better if using a Kahles 624/525, with LH windage, everything could be done with your free hand.  
Possibly common practice in some disciplines, just never heard of it.  

Yeh, I built one - after seeing a left-hand shooter with a right-hand rifle blitz our steel-plate speed comp.  If you shoot off a bi-pod exclusively definitely the way to go - until you come to sell it!   Hard to convince RH shooters and not many lefties.......

8 hours ago, John MH said:

Suffered a case stuck in a resizing die a few weeks back, first time in over 35 years reloading ammunition. Tried several methods to remove it which included amongst other things a hammer and punch and a spell in the freezer for the die but all to no avail.

Bought two stuck case removers, a Forster kit and an RCBS kit. Forster kit was unsuitable and the actual 'stuck' case remover is just a round ended punch which you are supposed to hammer, the other parts of the kit are to allow you to remove the decapping stem and expander ball from Forster type dies. The RCBS kit included a drill bit, tap and bolt which worked well, case gets trashed but not the die but you do need to hold the die tightly as a lot of torque was needed to pull the case free.

I've now got something that I hope I never need again but will be keeping it.

Not the 33XC by any chance John?  Just had a similar experience  - 30 odd years without a stuck case........

12 hours ago, kindwarf said:

Hi guys.

i have had a problem with my scope at long distance, for years I have shot the English XX match at Bisley and used a 6.5 x 55 Swede with a good Japanese scope called an Optima, I hade it and it has worked and adjusted well for about ten years, it gave good elevation to over 1000 yds with a 20moa rail. this year I thought I would up my game and put a Sightron lll on my rifle same rail same rings, thinking I had a much better scope went to 900 yds raised the elevation from 600 to 900 yds and the scope locked out at 900, luckily it was dead on at that distance And I got a good score, but there was nothing left for 1000 so I had to hold over to get them in the 5. The question is why wasn't there enough adjustment on what I thought was a long distant scope also how would you experts out there rectify this problem.

Many Thanks.

Which scope is it in the S111 range?  If I remember, the 8-32 has about 70MOA adjustment - but of course you would lose half of this on mounting on a 'zero' MOA rail but, you have a 20MOA rail so I would expect around 55MOA adjustment available. 

Assuming you are running your 6.5 Swede at reasonable velocity - then around 30MOA should take you from 100 to 1000 yards. Something is amiss.

Yes, a set of Burris Signature rings would solve the problem - but there shouldn't be a problem - unless maybe you are running a fixed power 36x scope with one-inch tube?

21 hours ago, marco said:

One and only price drop, then back in cupboard 

Marco - I'm a bit tempted - do you every get up to Diggle?  I'd prefer to have a look at it.  PM me on targetshooteronline@icloud.com 

I think it's brilliant if it works and with a low recoiling rifle it shouldn't be an issue.  Hopefully we'll find out on the 9th August.

Just emailed you Lee.

Vince

1 hour ago, RobinC said:

I'm an experienced reloader primarily with Match quality 6 mmBR, so I know how to case prep, but I'm now going to load .223 for the first time,  again for match target,  out of a match action,  purely for accuracy, so a question for you guys with .223 experience, I'm going to start with new brass, is there any significant difference in the quality of the various makes of new brass? 

There is significant difference in the price of new brass, make to make, say PPU to Lapua which would have been my choice, is there any significant difference in the performance? 

Thanks

Robin

Serious comp shooters will always use the very best components - you can never take that shot again!  If you are already loading match quality 6BR then you will be using Lapua or Norma brass.

Lapua do a 223 Match case - that would be my starting point.

However, you might like to read this - it did throw up the odd surprise: http://www.targetshooter.co.uk/?p=301