Its Bragging time again!!

[heliman]

Just finished my first custom rifle. Rem 700 in 22-250, trued the action, sleeved the bolt and but a Shilen select match barrel finished at 26 in. with a 12 twist on it and made the stock from a billet of guitar maple I had with walnut accents. Pillared and bedded of course. Now for the bragging. I found that the barrel was a little finicky with the load development but finally found that 36.0 grains of H414 hit the mark. The weekend was perfect with no wind. Shot off a bench rest stand at 100 yds. Chronyed at 3300 ft/sec. The long range stations were all taken. Pic is of my best group, which is the best I have ever shot by the way. It is a 5 shot group using 55 gr swaged bullets, non weighed, made with Danr dies. I shot 5 groups, and while they were all 1/2" or less this was the best. When I was researching swaging dies I found it hard to find any info on accuracy so I thought I would post that it is indeed possible to get competion accuracy out of these bullets if put some time into it. That said I gave some to a buddy who can't seem to get them to work out of his Browning. I did find that as little as a .5 grain opened the groups with the new barrel but the stock Rem barrel was a lot more forgiving. There you go, for what it's worth. Brian
ps. Here is a pic of one of the eagles that were following us around for the gophers we shot. Never saw anything like it. They didn't mind the shooting at all,

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[Reload3006]

Beautiful Job and nice group.... Envious!!!....

[BT Sniper]

Nice work on the gun, I have been looking to get a Shilen barrel for a 6.5 project test gun with my Savage action. I am still deciding between the Shilen or Pac-Nor.

Yep heck of a goup. I think we can both attest that the potential accuracy from 22LR brass for jackets is every bit as good as commercial bullets. I might have to try some H414 powder. :) I have found the same thing when shooting bullets from brass that they can be picky about what load they like. I noticed this more with my 30 cal testing with the FN 5.7x28 brass for jackets.

A few years back shooting gophers in Eastern Oregon we had a very large golden eagle do the same thing. Matter of fact I was shooting at one sage rat on the run and the eagle beet me to it :)

Good shooting and swage On!

BT

[Grandpas50AE]

I had a Shilen Select match grade barrel put on my Ruger M77 back in 1992. Old barrel was shot out. My brother had a Ruger M77 also, and we wanted to share brass without having to full-length size every time, so both rifles went to Shilen (I live 20 miles from Shilen's shop). When we had them re-barreled, I asked if they could get them close enough in chamber dimensions so we could share neck-sized-only brass. This is what we got: After rebarreling both rifles, during load re-development, the brass fired in one chamber was interchangable to the other rifle's chamber, the loads performed within 5 fps of each other in the two rifles (average velocity comparison), and the best group I ever shot was a five shot group measuring .557" at 100 yards. This is in .300 Win. Mag., using my swaged 190 gr. 10-S RBBT bullets.
I can say that I'm still just as happy today with the job Shilen did as I was when I measured that group and those velocity readings. He really does great, no, superb work.

[BT Sniper]

I think we are pretty lucky to have so many good barrel makers around today. I can probably come up with nearly a dozen manufactures that have good recomendations. You can look up great groups from many a number of fine barrel makers. Still Shilen does come up a lot.

Good shooting

BT

[Rangefinder]

5-shot group, huh? Where'd the other three go?? ;) THAT, sir, is a group I'd say you need to frame and hang next to the bench. VERY nice work!

PS---Man, you putzes are gonna get me in a whole lotta trouble with the wife if I keep having to look at all the swaging happening and what you're doing with some of it. I can only set aside so much at a time and I've run into some real trouble deciding what I really need the most! Stop teasing already!! ;)

[725]

Truly impressive. Well done!