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Going back to the loss of accuracy when neck sizing if it is in that same gun maybe it is a bad chamber, when reamers wear out they will taper the diameters some. I know when I neck turn and neck size I get much better accuracy. You should have a nice smooth finish in the chamber, if its rough then it wasn't cut well, on all my factory guns I have a flapper i run on a drill and it hold red burtex and i polish all chambers up to the rifling. I work in manufacturing and i cant believe some of the work on these factory guns. They dont deburr at all and I always get a bunch of material out of them after doing it myself.

Sounds like your on the right track, use an led light and look in the chamber for burr or damage as well. I guess it could also be head space if it were back out of the chamber too far but not likely. Hope you get it dialed in soon, let us know

Lmao that's funny, bull fever overload?????

Very common with belted magnum, your getting the bulge right on top of the belt. When you full length your feeding material down to the top of the belt. Regular dies can't resize this area. Neck sizing only is one option which I do, also search internet for belted magnum collet sizing die, there's a guy selling this die which fixes the top of the belt bulge and fits all belted mags with one die for ninety bucks

JUST a thought but mine didn't get drawn for their deer hunts this year but I am still going scouting for next year. Im sure the guys that have the answer to this question arent going to give up their hard work that easily. If you cant scout then work your butt off durring the hunt or fork out the cash for a guide. best of luck

You get anymore hopped up and your going to need a rifle scope.

It would be nice if they allow you to purchase ahead of time and predate the starting point, especialy the first year with most hunters having the whole year due to putting in for the Spring hunts.

I am thinking a great hunt spot is one where you can hunt bear, Javi, deer, elk all in the same spot and then walk a mile and fish for bass. Not alot of elk pics with pears in them. Great Bull

I told a friend ounce if you want to get brain soup just open a load data book and figure out what caliber gun you want to build. LOL Have fun and all 6.5 suggestions i agree they are all great.

I believe form this coming up in the meetings I attended you put in your license number you currently have and do the draw then if drawn you better remember to get the license when your current one runs out. I see this getting folks into trouble. Funny thing is i though this would be a good thing but now I think i will be buying my licence in January anyway.

Holding the Grand Canyon Hostage!!!!!! $500.00 for a us Senator or Congressman may not be a big deal but when the young family loses $500.00 it hurts just enough to put stress into daily activities. I pretty much feel like it was taken from me by our government. Yes the shut down tagged the Grand Canyon and with an annual plan of attacking the big ditch in pursuit of inner peace and health I am now sitting holding the bill waiting to see if our non government will decide that I lose my money or not. Good Job guys, much apprecieated (quote from abc 15) About 18,000 people visit the Grand Canyon daily in October, when temperatures are in the 70s and visitors can see the leaves changing colors on the drive. Nationally, about 715,000 people a day visited the 401 areas within the national park system last October, contributing about $76 million a day to local economies, said National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst.

Agreed, nice to have the old gun live on but use it as is and buy a cheap .243 for the other stuff.

Squeeze with pliars and when you hit thin wall it will be soft. Factory ammo is still soft so it didn't split since it was not hardend from firing.

This december will be my 3rd season, I hunt mulys mostly but dec we do one coues hunt. I have yet to fling an arrow but have stalked 3 times to about 50 yrds. Got busted ounce and let the other 2 go since I don't want a spike.

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Must be a fluke, They emailed me this morning stating they were state run and would be open as usual.

Congrats and great story. Maybe those bullets were going too fast? Some buullets are fps sensetive. Those were developed for the 270 win maybe and not the speed of the wsm???

H.1000 is all I have used or heard of. Ain't broke don't fix.

Not to mention its revenue at the gate and for permits and many other things, I don't see how funding could be so much higher than revenue with the dollars lited above

I pretty much use all magnum primers so I don't have to have so many different types. Just me but I don't see much difference and I usually don't try to shoot flys off the wall at 800 meters so accuracy from one to the other isn't a big deal

Its actually not a poor strike but it damages the primers integrity, if you squeeze them too far they wont go off at all, my AR struck a normal and large dent in the primer and nothing happened. I took them apart and replaced the primer while not squeezing as much and they were all fine. All of these were CCI primers and from the same sleeve of 100.

great accomplishment and congrats. I will have a total of 1 bull total some day if I get drawn!!!!!!!

That was a long thread but great info, I am a native to AZ and work in the Aerospace and commercial Machining field. I have done about everything in the field but own a shop. Mostly the company I work for does high dollar work not suited for the individual needing cnc work but I do have contacts. Mainly I supervise ad robotic CNC horizontal Mill production line or 12 machines connected to 150 pallets. If you need high precision aircraft parts made up to 630mm table size shoot me a message. Oh and we can gundrill about 60 in deep so if you need a 60 in tube for your 30/06 I could try that too.

I learned something on .223 I didnt have any issue with before, dont crush the primers!!!! I hand loaded my bolt action I just built in .223 and this is the first time I have hand loaded small primers in my RCBS hand primer and I pushed them too hard, I had 8 dead primers out of 10 and I quit and tore them apart. All I changed was pushing the primers less and got the feel for it then they were 100 percent good. Just a thought. I usually run them through the dillon so didnt have issues there.

Rackemup, My best freind is in the military and has been deployed many times, I dont mention my pack list to him for this reason, if I do he woops my butt and bullys me because he has to haul that same list minus the big gun. LOL one time we had a few beers and I was bragging about some long hike with lots of weight and tuff hunting and he made me dawn all his gear and jog around the neighborhood until I puked. LOL You guys are studs beyond recognition, many thanks for your hard work and service. PM me in Late December if your up for a long haul deer / pig hunt in Jan. Driven hungry strong guys are always welcome on my hunts.