Reason I ask is I had an experience last fall where my go to broad head had new blades. The steel was crap and folded over. They must of found a cheaper substitute. Cow elk was center punched and just kept going. Both lungs had a hole but it didn’t cut. Took her about 45 min to expire...
I love those powders but this seems slow for a 270. I don’t load for it but do load a 280. That uses the same powders to push a 160 accubond that fast.
6.5 Creedmoor or 7mm08 with the 140 are topping near there. That 270 case has quite a bit more capacity.
Have you reached pressure...
My go to is this for Barnes, it has never failed me.
Book max minus 1 grain. Load them up to max at .2g increments. Keep moving up till a pressure sign is reached.
Shoot these over a chronograph, don’t care where they hit the target.
Take the two that are closest in velocity safely...
My jumps are all over the place with Barnes. I’ve got one at .120 and one at .30 with the same box of LRX. I’ve always gotten them to shoot well but each one is very different.
Every rifle, bullet, powder, and primer combo is different. You can’t compare it to anything else and expect it to be the same. You start from scratch on each rifle.
Pierce Engineering built it as part of the original build. It was quite a bit bigger when I went to pick it up. They threw it in the lathe and turned it down more and mailed it to me.
Just thought I would share this here. Did a makeover on one of my favorite rifles with Paul.
It’s a 260 Ackley that has been my go to for a while. The original build was a trued action, Lilja 3 groove 8 twist, Trigger Tech independence, and B&C sporter.
It functioned fine but I hated the...
I have a tuner down the road that for it all. It’s not worth it for me to get into it for as little as I do.
On this one I had a ECM that I had had previously had tuned for this motor. So it was just a swap. I can get it scheduled for the dyno and get the correct VIN ECM updated later.
It Runs!!! Alaina got the privilege of being the fist to start it this evening. She has kinda fell in love with it. She very much wants it as her first vehicle.
It wasn’t without a bit of pain. The Y connector for the heater core / rear heat broke when I took it apart. I had...
Applied in AZ, kid drew a youth cow tag.
Applied the other kid in NM for the big three, hope to draw oryx.
In for 2 WY elk tags pending commission approval in our unit of choice.
What if they don’t like it? I’ve had one who said I would rather just shoot it with a camera in the future. What you going to do with a gun they don’t want. Not to mention whose name will the gun be in.
Borrowing for the first time is a lot safer option.
Good for you Doug for helping.
Having done several of these, I do have some questions.
How do you come up with 5k? Literally everything they need do a pronghorn hunt can be borrowed besides the license.
I can send you loaner optics.
Makes it hard, the places I was looking at in FL were mostly uninsurable with the current market value. A ton of threads that wide swaths of homes were dropped because of future hurricane damage.