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@dpete, for you, brother. There's a little twerk in there that pretty good...

If you're working up a Barnes 168 TSX load for an elk - then stick with it. BANG. Flop. Ask @Magwa about that. Forget that 150. Do the 168.

I KNEW this was gonna happen!!! HELL YEAH!!!

CCI 34s are the harneded military primers. Same process and mentality as the CCI 41s that are used to load military 5.56 ammo. I can say this - CCI 41s are about the equivalent of a magnum primer, and they do run hotter velocities than most any opther small rifle primer out there. The nearest match to a CCI 41 would be a CCI 450 small rifle magnum primer. Same deal with those 34s - CCI 200s are standard large rifle primers, the 250s are large rifle magnum primers, and those 34s are about on par with the 250s, just with a harder material, in order to prevent accidental firing from firing pin contact. So, with your brass already loaded with 34s, start your charge weight about 0.3 lower than what I'm running, work up to your best group that doesn't have pressure signs, and check your speeds. You'll outrun me, for certain. When I'm working on a brand new combination, I start a little low, and work those different charge weights up until I DO SEE pressure signs - ejector swipes, flattened primers, slightly cratered primers, etc. That tells me "too much..." I go back down to the next load that was most accurate, under the pressure load, and work from that charge weight. 0.1 up and down from it, find the best group, shorten seating depth 0.003" and see if it improves...

Of note - not just anybody can buy a rifle from the CMP - you have to be affiliated with the CMP, or through an identified program that the CMP recognizes. Food for thought...

Damn, Albro - that is COOL! I knew you were Good People!...

Here's another feather in the cap for 6 ARC. This is a good vid, just came out today.

Didn't know if this should be Funny Video or Serious Video... Is this a healthy marriage?...

Yep.

Wasn't that bad this morning. 102* when I was going through this process, and I stayed only as long as necessary. Didn't check the temp when I was rolling out of there. I was gone by 0852 on the clock on the car. Got through the wash, made the turn, going down the road - realized I never grabbed by 25 pieces of brand new Lake City brass. Turned around, grabbed it off the ground, was out again at 0858. Important weather stats this morning: Temp = 102" // Pressure = 29.65 in/hg // Alt - 1425 AGL // Density Alt = 4650 // Humidity = 29.7%. That temp and that lower humidity messes with DA ALOT! MV over 25 shots, AVG 2605 fps, SD was 15.4. Don't really need to do a dope chart, because it's a BDC scope - won't be any dialing. Important thing was getting it zero'd 1/2" high at 100, so everything else in the reticle matches up further out. Got the offset irons zero'd for 36 yards. 25 rounds for both zero sessions - then GONE!

One of these days,those of you that have been around me, personally, that joke about this - you'll have to start taking what I've said... Seriously. In campfire stories, face to face - I've already told you about this. I stand, firm, on this. Always have. Telling you that I've already exploited this technology - starting in 2019 - doesn't seem to phaze some people. Nothing is "encrypted" and nothing is "secure". It's all bullshiit... Look at this one... Hack my flip-phone...

Very nice choices, and very good criteria for those choices - well done!

This, I really like! Well played, brother.

Thank God it was Partly Cloudy?!!? Is that what I should be doing?... I have to zero an optic and backup irons in the morning, for a match next Saturday. Gonna be hottish... Just like next weekend's match, probably... Sucks, but literally perfect. These things are gonna be MOVING!!!

This is just stupid.