Excellent pix, Rick! Thanks for sharing your adventure, it looks like great fun.

If Skippy could see this on his computer he'd never come out of his hole.

Earl Three Beavers We have those also, i use carberator cleaner to kill those. It's an instant kill if it's a direct spray, if they just get misted they fall to the ground. Wasp killer had no effect.[/b] Carb cleaner! I'll just bet that messes up their jetting. ;) I'll try some this evening. Thanks.

Every year at this time we have a nice plague of carpenter bees (look like bumblebees). They drill perfect .50 caliber holes in our log house. :mad: They fly away when hit with wasp and hornet poison. A couple years ago I started using my S&W 617 10-shot loaded with .22LR birdshot and usually ge...

Great pics, as usual, Rick. Thanks for sharing.

Man, those shooting fields are NICE compared with the 50-400 yard rolling hills here in VA. Still waiting for a little quality trigger time here as ground hogs are just peeking out. Soon!

Nice grouping, Va varminter. The groundhogs are starting to venture out now in the Shenandoah Valley. They won't like that load at all.

Just received 2500 rounds of Power points from Cheaper Than Dirt.
Now to get out the .22s this weekend.

Robert penned:
"Scatter brained is good when you go after a pound of powder and come back with a new gun"

Or go for a helmet and come back with a new motorcycle.

Been there, done both!

I've been using the primer seater that runs on the RCBS Rockchucker but want something with a little better feel for what I'm doing.

What's your favourite primer seater? Which brand, and hand seater, bench model, or press mounted? What do you like best about it?

Contender hunter, did the firing pin dimple the primer at all? Would the cartridge fire on a second try? jo191145 said "Sounds like your Win brass has the shoulders set back to far for your HR", which sounds like an opposite problem. I do believe the problem is with the headspace on the br...

Thanks Gerry and jo191145. I just ordered the Hornady body and 6 inserts and the 204 insert which will cover the .223 and .25-06, and is a tad cheaper that way. Seems that Hornady bought out Stoney Point and that the SP name is now fading......... Looking forward to getting the H&R (my "tru...

jo191145, nope, don't have that 30 cal comparator insert. Where can I get such an animal? I've never measured headspace before, just cases and OAL.

So, if we get the brass to the right dimensions, that puppy should fire each time!?

Thanks for your ideas, guys. The Win brass was full length sized per instructions and set up provided with the Redding Competition die set. I did just run some measurements on both guns and once fired brass from each gun. To muddy (?) the issue: The Stoney point gauge with a 39 gr Sierra BK gave a m...

Been working up a load for both my CZ527 and H&R Ultra Rifle. I'm using new Winchester brass with CCIBR4 primers. The CZ fires both factory ammo and my hand loads flawlessly. The H&R fires factory ammo every time; with my handloads, its a FTF about 50% of rounds. The primer dimples but not h...

I just started reloading for .204 Ruger. What a fun gun! My first batch of reloads for my CZ 527 Varmint was: Winchester cases, CCI BR4 39 gr Sierra BK RE 10X 25.2 grains C.O.A.L. 2.250 avg 3740 fps and yielded .300" group at 100 yards This load may be a tad over Sierra's recommended but have s...

sniper204, once you get that rifle dialed in with an ammo it likes, try some shots without the barrel deresonnator and let us know what difference there might be. I toyed with getting one of those for my H&R Ultra Rifle .25-06 before I finally worked up a good handload. The principle makes sense...