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  1. bluegrassdan

    .284 Winchester Handloads?

    The 284 likes H4831sc, about 54 grains, about any 180gr class bullets, if the twist rate is fast enough (1-9 or faster). Have shot thousands of rounds of this for F class and hunting and it was, up until the last two years, the go to round for F class 1000 yard shooting. Seat your bullets to...
  2. bluegrassdan

    Sightron SIII scopes for sale

    SOLD
  3. bluegrassdan

    Sightron SIII scopes for sale

    I have 2 Sightron SIII 10-50x60 Rifle scopes. Both have been mounted and show a little cosmetic wear. I have the box for each, just not the foam packing inserts. Both have sunshade and a scope cover, one has the flip up lens covers. One is a 1/8MOA target dot and the other is a fine cross hair...
  4. bluegrassdan

    Miss fire.

    The Accutrigger has a habit of no resetting if you have side pressure on the center lever as well. We fooled around for an entire F class match trying to figure it out on a Savage model 12 rifle. I am not a fan of that design, so we swapped out with a Rifle Basix trigger and it shoots like a champ.
  5. bluegrassdan

    280 AI

    About 7.5-8lbs due to the laminated stock. I am waiting on the AG Composites stock to get through production, so this works for now. We typically build light weight hunters with AG/Manners stocks and CF barrels but since this one was for me and I already had a flutes SS barrel in stock, that's...
  6. bluegrassdan

    280 AI

    I sure love the one I just built for a Moose hunt in NF in 2026. That scope will NOT be on that rifle, its about as useful on a hunting rifle as a boat anchor.
  7. bluegrassdan

    Scope Ring Honing

    I would say that most of those fixtures never come out of the machine unless the QC shop tells them to check their setups. That ain't gonna happen if it shuts down production for more than a few minutes...if you have run production you know the drill.
  8. bluegrassdan

    Scope Ring Honing

    Tolerances are the key word here. Even with CNC machines, if your fixture is out of alignment, worn, loose, old....then everything you do on that fixture will be off by some degree. I see scope base holes that are off, some just a little, some off by up to .010" side to side, which is going to...
  9. bluegrassdan

    Scope Ring Honing

    I doubt you would lose much, maybe a 1/4 minute or couple of tenths out of the adjustment range even if it was now off the same axis. You did not change the rings by a large degree angular wise, you just changed the surface area more than anything (unless you were pushing really hard on one end...
  10. bluegrassdan

    Scope Ring Honing

    Wow, that's pretty bad. That's also a lot of material to have to remove to get them to line up. Run the risk of oversizing the interior of the rings enough that even torqued properly, the scope might move under recoil. Might want to get a witness mark in pencil on the tube to verify it does not...
  11. bluegrassdan

    Scope Ring Honing

    Just curious, but was there a reason you lapped your rings?
  12. bluegrassdan

    New Sako 90

    I bought an Impact Precision action to build a switch barrel rifle. I have 5 barrels fitted to it, 300wsm, 338 Edge (2ea) a 280AI, and a 6.5x284. I did the same with a Defiance short action for 6xc, 25GT, 260 Remington.
  13. bluegrassdan

    New Sako 90

    I had one in 338 Federal, beautiful wood on it. One of the best hunting rifles I owned, and in a moment of new shiny toy syndrome, sold it to get something else.
  14. bluegrassdan

    What are you currently reloading?

    Most of the ones I have used are powder coated to help prevent the lead fouling issue. Seems to work well enough in the 38 specials and the same for the .44 mag and my .458 SOCOM.
  15. bluegrassdan

    Primal Rights CPS primer seater

    Use it for retaining compound in the shop for close fitting parts on shafts, steel inserts for bolt lugs in aluminum actions...good stuff but takes at least 450 degrees to begin softening.
  16. bluegrassdan

    Primal Rights CPS primer seater

    Well, if it is a brand new receiver that already had 8-40 screw holes, that presents a problem. You can go up to a #12 hole and make custom solid inserts, lock them in with a TIG bead, machine it back smooth, re drill and re tap back to 8-40 and move on (only after telling the customer you...
  17. bluegrassdan

    Primal Rights CPS primer seater

    That is the truth. I missed an issue with a chambering job and it did not show up until I was about to hand it over to my customer. He asked me to fire a few rounds and make a modified case for his OAL gauge. One round was fine, the next two showed some odd ridges in the case. I knew I chipped a...
  18. bluegrassdan

    GUNWERKS

    If I remember right, they do all of their own barrels in house.
  19. bluegrassdan

    Input on damaged rifling

    OK, understand now. Ruger #1's are great rifles, but re barreling one can be challenging (that's machinist code for "this is going to cost you a LOT of money") for sure. Well, that sucks that it went south like that. I am floored, yet not really surprised by what others would let out of their...
  20. bluegrassdan

    Input on damaged rifling

    My shooting team mate has a Savage model 12 in .308, barrel is dark, rough as hell but will clean a 1000 yard F class target with boring regularity if he does his job right. Pisses off a lot of guys he beats that have $7K sunk into their rifles, they just cant see how a rack grade Savage can...
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