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Chris- I hear you. College sure puts a damper on shooting and hunting. I have my first round of midterms next week and I have been dreaming about my shooting bench more and more.....

-Neil

This year while deer hunting I shot a fox with my '06. My parents have chickens and a few had dissapered so I said I'd shoot any that I saw. I was using 150 grain remington soft points and it was about 100 yards. First shot nocked it down, but it soon got up and was limping through some brush when I...

I am far from an expert, but I do have first hand experience with stability problems with a 1 in 12 twist. I am also very interested in this issue of twist rate as I originally wanted to shoot the 39/40 grain pills in my gun. I know RIO has had great success with his 1 in 11 twist which is what I ha...

jo191145 - Thanks for posting your results. I guess it prooves that every barrel is indeed different. sand rat - I might have access to a camera that could take those photos and I will try tomorrow. I will have a chance to shoot this weekend and might try a couple groups of my 32 V-Max reloads for ...

Ok so I'm coming in a little late on this one, but this post became active after Ctrimfire posted this morning and I noticed it for the first time. My father owns a 190 acre farm/orchard in NY and we hunt it a lot along with my brother. We take care of our deer (food plots, make sure there is access...

Hey awsome project! Looks great!

-Neil

Fred_C_Dobbs- Very interesting read, and it confirms some of my theories. I will test some 40 V-Max this weekend as I suspect they will also have sever "coning" at closer ranges. I guess this is a "little" bullet barrel .

-Neil

My savage's reciever is also not threaded very true. I have installed two different mounts, rings and scopes on it, and all combinations result in having to adjust the scope almost all the way up. When I look down the barrel I would swear you can actually see the missalighnment with respect to the b...

I understand about being snowed in. I have to load all my stuff in a sled and tow it to my shooting bench with a snowmobile! I am starting to wonder if I seated the BK's out really far if they would stay straight, but it might just be a waste of time to try. The load I shot this weekend was 24.8 gra...

jo191145 - I have shot 32 V-max at about that range and never noticed anything but round holes. I have some factory 40 V-max that I should have tested at 20 yards as well but it slipped my mind. It is interesting that they are all pointing in the same direction. My theory is that each bullet wobble...

Sand Rat - I used a piece of single ply hard cardboard instead of a target to prevent tearing. http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz104/nsbardel/cardboard.jpg I stapled it tight against a piece of plywood. Sometimes plywood can splinter and tear up a target and I wanted to prevent this by using a s...

Well the jb compound that I ordered came in so I went to work on my barrel today. I first cleaned all of the powder out then the copper with CR-10. I made sure there was no trace of carbon or copper in the barrel before I started scrubbing with jb. I followed the directions to a "T", and a...

I just loaded up some 39 bk with what I believe to be its favorite load of RL-10x. I will let everyone know how it shoots after the bore is polished.

-Neil

Tadunga- I'm glad to hear of your success and that sierra suggested jb compound. I have some on the way so I will find out if it helps this weekend.

Pepe-Lepew-I have tried all sorts of seating depths w/out much luck

-Neil

jo191145 - Thanks for the detailed response. Your theory that the thin jacket is being ruptured sounds reasonable. It might explain some of the confusing results of my tests that have been driving me crazy :wall: . My only problem with this theory is that many people have reported great results wit...