Idaho Sharpshooter
12-09-2013, 12:30 AM
I have always wondered (or maybe my mind just wanders) how little case taper and how sharp a shoulder angle one could get away with.
This spring I intend to find out.
For many years I wrote for Precision Shooting Magazine ("Just a Rockchuck Shooter from Idaho").
I got to thinking seriously about the turn of the Millenium. Taking the 308W as a basis, I got Dave Manson to cut me a set of chambering reamers (rough and finish) to make a 308 ZTSS. He went to bat for me at Hornady and convinced Lonnie Hummel to make the dies.
ZTSS stands for Zero Taper, Square Shoulder. I talked with Seeley Masker, and Dave Tooley about it. They agreed, at the Super Shoot, that it might, just might work. Harley-Davidsons and hunting Africa got in the way, and paying off a new house did too. All that is done, and I retired 5 years ago.
So, the project begins. It will revolve around a Savage RB/LP single shot action, no barrel nut, a 1.25" cylindrical barrel, and a newly found source for those old fat laminated stocks like the 4x4 seen here in other threads.
Rich
This spring I intend to find out.
For many years I wrote for Precision Shooting Magazine ("Just a Rockchuck Shooter from Idaho").
I got to thinking seriously about the turn of the Millenium. Taking the 308W as a basis, I got Dave Manson to cut me a set of chambering reamers (rough and finish) to make a 308 ZTSS. He went to bat for me at Hornady and convinced Lonnie Hummel to make the dies.
ZTSS stands for Zero Taper, Square Shoulder. I talked with Seeley Masker, and Dave Tooley about it. They agreed, at the Super Shoot, that it might, just might work. Harley-Davidsons and hunting Africa got in the way, and paying off a new house did too. All that is done, and I retired 5 years ago.
So, the project begins. It will revolve around a Savage RB/LP single shot action, no barrel nut, a 1.25" cylindrical barrel, and a newly found source for those old fat laminated stocks like the 4x4 seen here in other threads.
Rich