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Hey, it was all Matt's idea, brother...

It's gonna be tough as hell to get a good cheek weld with that scope so high. Might need a chin weld...

Might not be the complete OAL, end to end, but the shoulder on the firing pins will definitely be in a different location, for longer bolt and shorter bolt. That shoulder on the firing pin is what hits the back of the bolt tail when you fire the round, and it's location determines how far that firing pin protrudes through the bolt face, and how much of it goes into the primer surface.

There has to be an OAL difference in the firing pins, if one bolt is longer than the other brand...

At the Fall Shoot, Mike taped up a steel target to shoot up, with red duct tape. Bad idea. As soon as he was back at the firing line, we shot the shiit out of it and blew all the tape off... Duct tape on steel targets doesn't work too well - the spalling just makes the stuff fly off...

They did a great job on that! Despite what these ruffians are saying!

HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!

Not sure yet. I have some Barnes 100gr TSX that I'll try tonight. The problem with the higher BC bullets is that the taper of the ogive goes so far back the bullet, before the .257" diameter on the shank starts- that would have them pretty far out of the case, and beyond mag-length. The solution for that is the 25-233, which trims the entire case length back to 43mm - take 2mm off the front. That opens up the case to alot more projectiles. It's a different chamber, though. There's 60-something pages on it all over at ARF, and there are definitely opinions... Watching the vid of whacking steel on a first-round hit at 800 yards with factory 87gr ammo - I don't see a need for higher BC bullets, IMHO.

NICE!!!

That's all angle... That Lancer maxes out at 2.272" and I'm loading at 2.260". Yeah, once-fired. The expander takes a second to get the feel for. Going up from .224" to .257", if you just run it like you're resizing and depriming a piece of brass, you'll split the case mouth if you're going too fast...

My motley fool jumps into the gun cases when I'm packing up to go shooting - he's trying to be a stowaway!... He 'bout got his a$s trapped in the reloading shed today...

Just finished up, and I'm ready to go! Don't know if I'll be able to wait until Sunday to try these out...

Pretty good side by side of the cartridge improvement, over 5.56. I hope I can get this 90-grain beast close to 2900 fps...

NOTE: Run the .223 brass through the .25-cal expander die SLOW at first, until you get the feel for it!!! I'm just sayin'...

You're gonna kick my a$s, but... I don't have a chrono... yet, anyway... I've got a base reference of a verified chrono load, and I'm running ladders up from there, and doing the velocity calculations before I go out there. Using this program for the velocity calculations, based on the verified load: http://shootersnotes.com/calculator/velocity-estimator/ Once I get the load the rifle likes, and the velocity that I like, I'm running JBM Ballistic Calculator to give me a good idea of the drop in mils, and I'll go out and verify it all through the scope. Planning on this being a 400-yard hunting round. http://www.jbmballistics.com/ballistics/calculators/calculators.shtml My starting load is the 90 SGK over 21.5gr RL-7 @ 2640fps. My ending load, pressures permitting, is 90 SGK over 23.2gr RL-7 @ 2826fps. 23.3gr RL-7 @ 2837fps. I'll load in 0.2 or 0.3 gr increments and build 10 loads of five rounds, tonight. Initial JBM calculations give me 3.4 mils 3.3 mils of drop at 450 yards on the 2826fps 2837fps load, and 4.0 mils of drop at 450 yards on the 2640fps load. Whatever the rifle likes the best will get the final drop calculations, and scope verification.

What did you see that would cause issues? I saw a couple thou here or there, but nothing drastic. Well, besides that gas key placement. I'll look closer at cam pin cutout dimensions, because I could see that causing a problem, one platform to the other.

Working on brass right now. Just dumped a whole gallon zip-lock bag into the tumbler, all once-fired PMC Bronze brass. I've had good luck with the PMC Bronze brass in the past. Ran the first 10 of them through the expander, then resized/deprimed. I'll finish off the bag and get them all cleaned again. Gonna load up 5ea on powder differences and run ladder tests this weekend. They'll all get the Sierra GameKing 90gr HPBT and RL-7 powder, CCI 400 primers. Wanted to get that done today, and actually get out and shoot the ladders, but TactiCat got his a$s over the wall and went for a stroll. I had to find him before he got someone's dog. Spent quite the time hunting for him. Said fuk it, and put out food and water, and a first aid kit, and went back out to the reloading shed. Opened the door, and he shot out of there, dirty as hell...

This might be do-able. I will steal one of Kim's 9-rounders...

Well, let's get this going. Optic is a Millett DMS-1 in an American Defense mount, for now. That will change. 18" midlength barrel with a 15" handguard. Trying out a new trigger, and I really like it. It's already been given a breakin workout in the trigger jig. KE Arms DMR trigger.

I'm not seeing too big of a difference, besides gas key mounting differences.

If you buy it, I'll help you diagnose all the issues with it. Have at it, my brother. No matter what, we can un-fuckle the thing.

My last response to his photo-bomb was magnificent. I hope all PSA owners find it.

He photo-bombed it all over the site, every chance he could put it in. I think I found them all.

I'm making ladders tomorrow with charge weights, and shooting the shiit out of this thing, brother.

You didn't hear WRONG. Early models SUCKED A$S, before PSA unfucked themselves and discontinued them... ^^^THAT happened ALOT. And then the new owners came HERE, and started asking for help diagnosing their freshly-purchased schit-pile. Unreal... That dude completely PSA-bombed your thread, when it had NOTHING to do with PSA, didn't he?... Like a drunk college a$shole in a bar photo-bombing drunk biotches...