Gas check thru the display---Guilty!!!! A second chrony which I had trouble with all the time, took a 50cal cast boolit thru it. I was kind of happy as I had a good reason to get a chrony that worked! Bad thing on the second one, is that there was a witness to what I did!!!
Some 6-8 years ago I helped a new guy get into shooting and reloading. He was an inexperienced gunner but an eager and bright young man so he did learn fairly well.
He bought a Chrony and used it a few months before putting a .300 WSM round through it, end to end; he finally understood why I wouldn't loan him my PACT Pro. (Last I heard of him he had quit reloading but not hunting, seems he was having trouble finding factory ammo - guess he finally knows why I suggested he get a .300 WinMag if that level of performance was what he wanted to hunt southern whitetail deer.)
Absolutely! One of the guys at our local club insists he needs a 300 Weatherby to hunt Pennsylvania whitetails. Insists. Of course, his idea of hunting is to sit on a hilltop on the edge of a power line clear cut and wait for the deer to cross. "Might have to shoot 500 yards!" he says. Right. Not what I call hunting.
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"It's not how well you do what you know how to do,,,It's how well you do what you DON'T know how to do!"
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i had a friend(RIP) here in PA and he shot a 338 RUM for deer. my gunsmith is building a rifle (for some guy) in the 30 nosler for hunting deer. its a terminus apollo action and i can't remember who made the barrel but it is a 30" barrel with muzzle brake that is 1 1/2" dia.
without a scope and stock, its gotta weigh 15lbs. i do not want to carry it, let alone shoot it. i'll stay with the 30-40 krag with 165gr ranch dogs(1924fps), thank you.
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To the Republic of these United States of America, I am strong and free. I will never surrender to godless communist socialism. Pray to images in your demented mind, that you will have mercy, because i will not.
MOLON LABE
No matter the ability of any rig and glass, the bullet will fall and drift so the shooter is the weak link; he has to shoot correctly.
Magazine stories aside, there are few shooters who can hit anything in the field passed maybe 200 yards except in their day dreams.
I prefer my .30-06 for long range shooting but my .243 will kill whitetail deer just as dead, just as far out, and just as quickly, as anyone else's .340 Weatherby. Or a .458 Win Mag.
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Cognitive Dissident
Yes, a gas check will do it!
I found a replacement screen on ebay for £20 and got my Chroney up and running again.
Just for information, I tested some cast loads for my Mod 1889 Schmidt-Rubin through my Chroney F1 and also through my club's Lab Radar and the average velocity reading between the 2 was 5fps, not too shabby a result!
ukrifleman
I stacked 2 clear welding helmet lenses in front of my old F1 Crony. display. Stops gas checks and ML wads. Can you use rods and a plastic diffuser to replace the old cardboard screens on the old F1?
The 3 people a man must be able to trust completely are his gunsmith his doctor & his preacher ..,his gunsmith for his short term health ,his doctor for long term health ,and his preacher incase one of the others mess up.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |