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Intrigue, mystery and a bit of controversy? Huh? My name isn't even on the rifle!! ;)

Great info...sounds like we have the same base rifle after all! Out of curiosity, am I guessing right were I to guess panhandle of Oklahoma?? If so I might like to hear who is doing your work on the barrel? I'm not that much of a drive from there and wouldn't mind a trip if the work could get...

Baller dude!! Glad you finally got your hands on one!

I'm kind of the opposite. I had one of the Lee bench ones and that nearly gave me a heart attack when it jammed and then blew up. I packed that up and donated it to a friend afterwards and didn't look back. IIRC they might have had a recall or safety concern with them blowing up and had to...

Yeah, can't go wrong with this one.

The current rifle is using a 404 Jeffrey case necked down to .416 so it's good to go from a case length and dimensional aspect. But unless there's some real crazy stuff in the world, I doubt the barrel itself can be opened up. The problem that stymied me last year is that this came with dies ---...

Okay, so harkening back to my long thread last year where I got a 416/404Jeffery wildcat, and attempted to get it working ... well, I haven't got it working. I've honestly not had a lot of time to pour into the endeavor, but at the same time, I'm really not looking forward to trying much. That...

I love the little "TH" added to the sights. That's a cool touch.

Dang, I look away from this thread when it was like Christmas!! @Wishfulthinker580 that's some major props on those --- those blades are gorgeous. If I'm being honest, I'd have wanted them just because they are gorgeous, and I don't think I'd be able to have put them to use as intended though so...

I had never in my life thought of what those were called, so I'm having a TIL moment over here :D

It is a drool worthy collection, not gonna lie. What I might have in volume, he has in quality.

I mean, I have no doubt boo boo would be down for hunting more tacos in this case :D

So last week was my routine daddy/daughter trip and not wanting to go fight the crowds and college kids at a beach somewhere no matter what my daughter said she wanted, we headed out west from flyover country with a general idea of some activities. Well, wouldn't you know that the plan took us...

Checked my pile but the best I've got is a 2.5-10 laying around, sorry to hear about the bad experience for sure.

My solution to all those tasks is to find something like deewayne2003 mentioned above, but I got a small benchtop shopfox lathe to run them in. Basically chuck it up, process a set of brass, chuck the next, and keep going. Really nice for batch operations. Also, because it's variable speed that...

Talking to my local store, they indicated Alliant is straight up stopping shipments to the US because Ukraine is buying all their capacity.

Come up the road from Texas to Tulsa and you'll find Scheels has stock of pretty much everything at the new location there.

Appreciate the feedback and sharing the experience. I had a feeling you might be one of the ones that would be able to chime in with a bit more experience on the topic. Guess I need to actually get those things ordered to experiment. Considering I've got three in 416 I guess it won't hurt to buy...

Not having ever deviated from the typical bullet sizing for a caliber... Would the slight extra size really make that much difference? Truth be told I have no idea.

I mean sure... That's an option. But as much of a pita as this is so far it's still an interesting project that is teaching me new stuff. So I got that going for me.

I have probably been on the internet way too long because "Wyoming Sight Drifter" sounds like something not safe for work that I'd have to look up on Urban Dictionary.

So, thread from the dead post here, but, well, I've been busy. Way to much going on in life, so this project and it's friends the 416 Rem and 416 Taylor have all been on hiatus. For better or worse our house hold is going through a complete top to bottom "get rid of excess stuff, and sort...

I mean, I know I was personally considering getting some abortion pills....then I realized I'm a dude.

Man, this thread is why there are other posts about snobbery on the forum. Like, I get that there may be good intentions, but dang. I know it doesn't really make me want to consider listing much. Congrats on the sale @Osama Mahdi

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960253872/oklahoma-state-lawmaker-introduces-bigfoot-hunting-season-bill

The question is if you have the license anyways. OK has a bigfoot license now IIRC. Or maybe it never officially went through. But they were trying!

I've always said nice things about ya'll --- don't go being a bad influence trying to tempt me into getting a Rigby ;)

It kills me that ya'll got that nice Norma 458 Win like 2 months after I source a bunch of once fired for the same price! Glad ya'll are sourcing the good stuff though!

Going to be honest here, and this may be a bit of a side bar, but I notice that three pages in not a single person has mentioned US Optics. I'm not intensely familiar with them --- I've got a FDN-10x that I haven't mounted that is destined for a 7mm RM build. But I'm just curious if folks in...

Look at all ya'll and your fancy choices. Nothing beats a CenterPointe.

I mean, there's always this as an option:

I got mine because it was a RPR Gen two in a custom midnight bronze cerakote with 300 round and the guy wanted like 900 for the package. I'm a sucker for a deal. Nowadays I rarely even shoot it, because it's so easy to shoot tight groups with factory ammo. It feels like cheating so I wind up...

Sorry, hate to say it but they are long gone at this point.

I mean, I wouldn't have said not if it was the EP5 but this is what was available. For $9 I wasn't going to complain too much though :D I really need to make a scope testing rig for situations like this. I wonder if something like this exists and I've not ever seen it. The idea being that...

Thats an idea --- I've got a RPR Gen 2 in 6.5 currently wearing a Sightron SIII 6-24. I suppose moving that to a different rifle is an option. I need to remember what all rifles I have that I need to put optics on. I've got like 6 in the boneyard that don't have homes at the moment.

This --- IIRC the regulations are that a passenger can carry one declared mercury medical thermometer. Weather agencies can carry their fancy ones subject to packing restrictions. Mercury will react with aluminum and cause "holes in aircraft" which is widely seen as a "bad thing" as those can...

Nice... Looking through it and doing a hands test it seems clear and solid enough. Just debating on what it might work on for me if nothing else.

I recently got an absolutely insane deal on an Arken 6-24x50 FFP scope. Anyone have any experience with them good bad or ugly?

Kind of unrelated, but for any 7x64 fans, American Reloading has had some great deals on brass. Depending if their sale is 25% or 40% off (like it is today) you can get 100 pieces primed nickle for around 50 bucks.

The RCBS has a star on my walk of fame. But if you didn't already have it and just needed to pop one loose then McGyver's Kinetic Hammer would be fine. Generally the RCBS is preferred though.

Kind of this. Drill a hole but only make it small enough that when you put the bullet in the hole with a shellholder on the bottom, the shellholder makes it so that the whole thing doesn't go through. Then smack it against something hard --- preferably over a soft (to save the bullet) surface...

Running a search on Ammoseek there's a fair amount out there ~5.50 and up for 500gr, then some at ~7ish at 400gr. But zero results for 350gr. Edit: I should probably note that I checked @RAVEN ROCKS PRECISION as well, but nothing is showing in stock there --- but I'd still bookmark them for...

Not to derail from OP's initial thread too much, but @D.M.V nails it. I learned to reload due to acquiring a 375 one day. I think my initial uninformed purchases that I made to get rolling (including bullets, primers and powder) cost me about $800. IIRC, I made about 1k worth of ammo within a...

The closest I come is that I have a stash of 458 lott without a home.

I'm not a Delta person, but I'm taking the shorter pathway unless you have access to a lounge network for the layover and/or plan to get out of the airport during that timeframe.

@gprippers --- The Brass is inbound. Tracking number in your PM's. Cheers, Chris

IIRC Redfields history was "out of business! Bought by someone else for a come back! Out of business! Bought by someone else for a comeback!" a few times. Most recently when they went out of business a Chinese company bought them and they did a rebrand under the name "T-Eagle" which was...

IMHO you're good --- some people get rightfully cautious. I spend a lot of time on some of the local OK boards as well, and they're a whole different world when it comes to selling since people meet FTF. I sold one thing on here in response to a WTB post and it was a nightmare. That wasn't on...

Obviously the only way to settle this is for me to invite @Buckmaster1 and @Wishfulthinker580 to Red Castle. If he can bring the rifle, I'll bring the ammo and then I'll take some pictures and stuff :D