You gotta jam them. How else will you get to see how fast you can find a cleaning rod when a cease fire is called and you’ve got one in the chamber?

What do ya say when you pull the bolt back, no bullet, chamber full of powder, gritty. Mr. Richard asked, what dirty word did you just say.

Thing is everybody knows what just happen after the fussing and then you holler out for a cleaning rod to knock the bullet out.

Very surprised that no one has mentioned a new avatar that has showed up here in the last few days. Tiger Woods + John Daly = good shooter. I guess that I am a jammer. I will find the lands occasionally using the Wheeler Accuracy method. Richard Allen worked with me once recently and he mentioned that when you find the number, once you put the bolt back together, things change a little because of the pressure applied by the ejector spring. I look at this as a relative starting point and move into the lands from there. I have heard it mentioned to get away from the land at least .003 to allow for error so that one is not jammed and the next one jumped. If you are a good shooter that precisely measures everything, that should not be the case. I shoot Bart’s 105’s in the Dasher and he states in an email that he has always found a spot from .006 to .010 in. Jim Borden states in the instructions that he sent with the .308 that he has found a spot from .005 to .015 into the lands for the Berger 185gn jugs. At Reese Bottom, with only four targets and shooting pretty much shoulder to shoulder, we will usually let each good shooter fire the loaded round, with permission, and then cease fire. I assume that we have been able to do this without any safety issues. More good shooters on the firing line would definitely require an immediate cease fire and pulling the bullet would become a problem. Spilled powder makes a mess, and it is amazing the problems that a single kernel can cause. I’ll relate this story and then hush. A good shooter that I stay in touch with that is always helping others with their problems told that he had a friend that thought that he had completely shot out his barrel. Well, they decided to play with jumping the bullet and found out that the thing shot like a new barrel with the bullet jumped .080. He did not mention caliber or bullet. I would think that a jump that large would compress the powder. Any of you good shooters got any thoughts on compressed loads and pressure? Sorry for the length but I am sitting here listening to the rain and am reminded why we do not shoot in December and January. Cold and Rainy. WWE

Jump .035 for Berger VLD 105s in the Dasher the 115s I’ve been playing with don’t like that much

When I was a little boy I decided to wade though a creek My shoes got jammed in the mud and my buddies had to help pull me out the shoes stayed in mud and as far as I know they’re still there today I said I would not go back to that creek until I was big enough to jump it because of that if I have a bullet that won’t shoot jumped I’ll find me a different bullet