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I'm one of the holdovers from a slower time. My reloading is pretty basic, tedious, but pretty accurate. This combination of parts is going to become 6.5 Creedmoor ammo to be flung outta a 30" Brux barrel: Lapua SRP brass - new Sierra 142 Match Kings Hodgdon H4350 As you can see from the picture, I'm using an arbor die - Micron Precision - from Bullet Central. There was a time I would roll a round across the table to see if the tip wiggled, kind of a poor man's concentricity test. That doesn't …

Match Director Extraordinaire Darrick Davidson did it again. At the Rush Lake range he put on a match that went as seamlessly as any match can go. He was as everywhere as anyone can be. Starting on time and ending in good time, a good time was had by all. Stage one had the shortest and longest ranges, at 300 yards and 900. I can do that, but the Diamond at 498 - I HATE DIAMONDS! But that's a personal problem as you well know. There were more 12 round stages in this match …

"Surviving" a two day National Qualifier PRS Match is not the language to use, or the language most participants would use to describe their experience, playing and having fun in the sun for two and a half days of long distance riflery, while climbing on barricades, belly flopping in the dirt, breathing dirt, squinting into the 100 degree sun, burning hands on barrels and suppressors after expending ten rounds in two minutes twenty times in two days, fighting for cognitive clarity while struggli …

Weekends are for shooting and having fun. They’re not for working. Yeah! Right! Saturday I drug out an Eliseo Competition Machine I’d left uncleaned and neglected in the corner for the last four years. It had poked a few targets for me at a PRS one day match in 2022, then was unceremoniously overlooked for a few seasons. I’ve taken up shooting these Dakota 600 matches lately and I thought the 6mmBR barrel on the tube gun would do really well, mostly because of the bipod Gary ma …

Everybody has a story. Everybody’s story is interesting to me. I spent 35 years running up and down the highways of Canada and America collecting stories, delivering freight, and reading books. Over 3000 books. Truckloads of magazines. And vocalizations. Thousands and thousands of conversations. The easiest way to learn something - if you can keep yer own trap shut - is to ask a person what they know besides what their job is. Put yer teeth and lips together, yer butt in a chair, and grab …