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Go to Pending Charges under checking account. Nothing yet or in pending!! Has anybody else gotten drawn and have Desert School Credit union??? Yup. I have Desert Schools- it's a pending charge (not listed). I had to call and get confirmation it was AZGFD Not good I don't have anything pending

Go to Pending Charges under checking account. Nothing yet or in pending!! Has anybody else gotten drawn and have Desert School Credit union???

Well I pretty much blame Lance (lancetkenyon) and Chris (Douglas-gun-guy) for this but Im not that upset! Lance did his load development on Chris's new 6.5-270 AI. If you look back on this topic you can find the whole write up that Lance did. At that same time I had my tikka .270 and have been shooting out to 700 yards with it. I took a New Mexico Goat with it at 300 yards, mule deer spike at 300 yards, and a Coues at 400 yards. The gun did great and grouped well at 300-400 yards. At 500 yards the BC for a .270 is usually in the low .5s and it would widen out farther I shot. In my opinion the .270 is one of the greatest calibers for the 100-350 shots out there. It will slay deer and knock down elk no problem. But I wanted the higher BC for better groupings at 500-800 yards. Just when I started to think about a new rifle Lance came out with his thread on Chris's new wildcat 6.5-.270. Well it was a sign!!! Got a hold of Chris and said he would love to build me one. Told him not till after hunting season. Well October came around and Chris had some family stuff that came up and couldn't take on anymore work but will be willing to send his reamer and suggested I talk to Clint (Stomp442) to build my gun. Stomp was great to work with and answered all my long annoying questions about it because I never built one before. Specs: Tikka .270 action Bartlien #3 barrel 26" Custom muzzle break McMillian Game Scout Stock Bolt fluted spiral from LRI With bipod and Vortex scope 10.5# (with the Athlon it will be 11#s) (with bipod off 10#) Athlon Cronus with seekins 34mm rings 20 Moa rail Vortex Level Nosler .270 brass W760 52 grain 140 grain 6.5 HVLD Berger It turned out Great! With lots of question and text message with Chris (douglas-gun-guy) Lance (lancetkenyon), and Clint (stomp442) with questions, muzzel breaks, how to create a false shoulder, and fire forming etc etc Im really greatful for all the help!!! Custom muzzle break that Stomp did Sent my bolt off to LRI to get it fluted. It took it a total of 8 days and 58 dollars. I put on my PST vortex 6.5-24x50 scope just temporary. Im putting on my 4.5-29x56 Athlon Cronus but its on the Creedmoor and Im still developing a load for it so this will do. Here is the difference from the .270 to a 6.5-.270 AI I've had my rifle for a few weeks and this is the first day that im shooting it. Waiting my bolt to come back, bad weather, and lots of Christmas shopping that the wife put her foot down that had to be done!! Plus I was getting angry text message from Lance and Chris why I haven't shot it yet!! Well not angry I still got out today and weather was suppose to be lot clearer today but the news guys were wrong as always It was fire forming at 3000 fps using W760 (beacuse I had lots of it from my .270) using Berger 140 grain. After 25 rounds I had a primer blow out and then I stopped. So Im going to undo the other 75 round and drop a grain or two. That Sucks!!! But over all for just fire forming rounds and using W760 I was getting great groupings at 100 yards Most of the shots were 1/2" grouping with 4 shots and the 5th one seemed to be flyers And Shooting Nosler Brass Overall the gun shoots so smoothly with the muzzle break!! It kicks less than my 11# creedmoor on and the stock fits your shoulder nicely. After fire forming Ill be shooting 140 bergers and ELD-X 143 grain and Ill try H1000

Final Load!!!!!! Going to settle here. After 3 different powders, accubonds, ELDs, Bergers finally settled on 6.5 Horndy ELD-x 143 60.5 g H-1000 (very good node between 60.2-60.9 with very little velocity and grouping change) 3,105 pfs Fed 210 Match primer I was able to get 3200 fps many times with other powder and H-1000 but with only 1-1/4 groupings. I was really shooting for 1/2 MOA and kept getting 0.633 at 100 yards. Today shooting at 200 yards to sight in the scope, and at 200 yards really showed my MOA groupings, which ended up at less then 1/2 MOA. Now if I can get this at exactly 1/2 at 200 yards I would be a happy camper!! But I bought a Antelope tag in New Mexico and want to get going on my drops for long range. I do have ELDm 147 6.5 coming and I do want to see if I can push these the same velocity. Even if Im at 50 fps slower than the 143s the 0.697 BC past 400 yards and out to 1200 yards is going faster than the 143s and less wind drift. Sounds awesome!! But for hunting this year Ill stick with the 143s Also side note my cold bore was a little high but then all the rest ended 1/2 MOA. That is normal correct? Or do I need to work on that?

Nothing yet, Desert schools like to report later! I will have to wait a few more hours

Really!!! ??

Kaffer62 reminded us to update credit cards if you haven't yet. I totally forgot until he stated that in other thread. So you got till 11 pm

HOLY CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I JUST GOT ONE OF THOSE STUPID CHIP CARDS A WEEK AGO AND FORGOT ABOUT UPDATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All good now I just called and updated it!!!!!!!!! I owe you lunch

So all I know is using elevation/ temp and plugging that in and use the reading after that! Reading other places they are suggesting only barometric pressure. Some stuff is not clear to me on my app. If I plug that in does it affect what I already have with elevation that is plugged in or do I hit 0 and put in barometric pressure?? Any advise or help would be great!!!

This thread makes me depress! Im going to my safe place because I haven't shot anything that big yet

Agreed!! If its farther than that you should have time to set up and log everything in. You don't want to rush a 700 yard shot.

I haven't looked into it but how easy is it to get drawn??

So what about printing off cheat sheets to tape on your rifle for quick glances. Since your not there to get an accurate reading I always look at google earth and find out my hunting elevation and plug that in for a quick cheat sheet. Does that sound right?? I understand when you have a long shot, and angel lets say 20 degrees you better make sure everything in your app is correct.

Can't wait for pics!!!!!

Wow very good weekend

I also looked into the 7mm short mag and 7mm WSM but lots of rumors barrels burn out from 700-900 rounds. I would assume 280AI would be more around 1500 right??

This should be a good one!!! Past few years looking into the 280AI! I like that you can buy brass

Cool!! Hope to see you there!!

Never mind they are gone

I'm supposed to get my land owner tag information by Tuesday . The guy used to work the ranch and usually takes his kids every year. This year they had 4 more. I bought one from him should have 3 left. I'll message him or see if he still has them. $1500'landmowner tag on 55,000 acres. Says you will run out of ammo before antelope.

Sold

I have 4 boxes .270 Accubon 140g. $20 each 3 boxes have been cut open but never used. Located in Gilbert (elliot/recker)

Siwash in a little bit im going to contact firstcousewas80 if i don't hear back from you buddy!!

Still waiting for siwash to pm back. Then firstcoues had 2nd dibs. Ill put you down for 3rds