What gun stuff did you do today?

[ctc1066]

I took all of the boxes of brass off the top of my 4X8 work table and sorted 3 buckets of brass I keep tripping over on the side. I found several hundred .30-30 and .270WSM I didn't know I had. My buddy has been asking me for .270WSM to load for one of his customers. The top looked like this.
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now we got this...all is sorted in cat litter buckets just to the left and out of sight. Now I can walk to down the left side of the bench. Threw away half those empty boxes I was saving if need to ship something. I'll go ahead and size/clean the small buckets left on top....243, .260, 308 and .270. I found another 2 good sized boxes of LC .308 Match and 1 box of LR I forgot about. A bunch of stuff... .204 Ruger and a few other odd things.

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now to get it off the loading bench behind it

Wow! You have enough brass there to melt down and make a nice size plaque as an award for cleaning up that work bench.

 

[TackleberryMCS]

I spent a little time swapping some optics on a couple of my SIGs. I bought a new ROMOE-X PRO to put on the P226 XFIVE LEGION along with a SIG optic/suppressor height rear sight that goes with the front sight. After installing the rear sight and sitting the ROMEO-X PRO in front of it, my concern was clear. The built-in rear sight of the optic was much lower than the rear sight on the pistol and the iron sight alignment was about midway in the optic. What I ended up doing was robbing the ROMEO2 from my P320 XTEN and putting it on the P226 XFIVE LEGION and the ROMEO-X PRO on the XTEN. Now, both are perfectly set up. The nice thing about the ROMEO-X PRO is that it will handle the 10mm rounds just like the ROMEO2.

P226 XFIVE LEGION

P320 XTEN 10mm

 

[woodsy85]

New Riton X3 MPRD arrived that I bought on a PSA daily intending to put it on my new panzer M4 that I’ll pick up later this week. Man, it’s tiny! Too small for a shotgun I think. Seems well built though so may find another application. A quarter completely covers it. Pic in front of a cheap Feyachi red dot on my RIA VR70 for reference.

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[Rebel_Rider1969]

Backyard hunting. Shot a deer! 7pt. Using hornady black 308 168gr a-max. Winchester XPR. Bullet must have fractured really well. Saw various bits at the hide in several areas. Recovered the jacket caught in the skin. Neck shot. Never took a step. My first time neck shooting.

 

[pete repete]

Backyard hunting. Shot a deer! 7pt. Using hornady black 308 168gr a-max. Winchester XPR. Bullet must have fractured really well. Saw various bits at the hide in several areas. Recovered the jacket caught in the skin. Neck shot. Never took a step. My first time neck shooting. View attachment 265880 View attachment 265881 View attachment 265882

which leupold scope is that?

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

which leupold scope is that?

3x9 Firedot. Love it. My first and only leopold. Courtesy of SAWMAN. RIP. Miss ya Bill.

 

[Jester896]

Using hornady black 308 168gr a-max. Winchester XPR. Bullet must have fractured really well. Saw various bits at the hide in several areas. Recovered the jacket caught in the skin. Neck shot. Never took a step.

see...target bullets will kill a deer dead...some folk don't believe it

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

see...target bullets will kill a deer dead...some folk don't believe it

That bullet blew up. (Poly tip) I had some concerns about using it. From reading online from " the experts"
Photos of damage. 1st pix exit.
Now i gotta pick another rifle to use, to justify its place in the collection, lol

 

[woodsy85]

About time you scored! You’ve put in the work. Congrats bro!


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[Raven]

see...target bullets will kill a deer dead...some folk don't believe it

Hornady Black was optimized for sure cycling in AR pistols and SBR's. Black as in Black Rifle. I wouldn't think it's a really a target load other than the fact this particular one is a 308. It was that polymer tip that forced that cone open on impact that did the deed

308 Win 168 gr A-MAX® Hornady BLACK® - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

...

www.hornady.com

 

[Jester896]

That bullet blew up. (Poly tip) I had some concerns about using it. From reading online from " the experts"
Photos of damage. 1st pix exit.
Now i gotta pick another rifle to use, to justify its place in the collection, lol

I'm not an expert...but that was a catastrophic bullet failure...for the deer too.

you can see here what Hornady designed it for

A-MAX® - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

The Hornady^® A-MAX^® bullet design grew from a relentless application of everything we know about ballistics and flight characteristics.

www.hornady.com

I don't think you need to pick another rifle.... just a different bullet at the range you were shooting
I have seen MatchKings perform pretty well at 600 yards. I have read that many prefer the ELD-M to the ELD-X too.
If your a Hornady fan it is just hard to beat the BTSP Interlock

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

I'm not an expert...but that was a catastrophic bullet failure...for the deer too.

you can see here what Hornady designed it for

A-MAX® - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

The Hornady^® A-MAX^® bullet design grew from a relentless application of everything we know about ballistics and flight characteristics.

www.hornady.com

I don't think you need to pick another rifle.... just a different bullet at the range you were shooting
I have seen MatchKings perform pretty well at 600 yards. I have read that many prefer the ELD-M to the ELD-X too.
If your a Hornady fan it is just hard to beat the BTSP Interlock

I've got 130gr otm federal ( some GI # i forget) I'd like to try. Want to find 100gr or 110gr. To see if I can get +3k speed.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Hornady Black was optimized for sure cycling in AR pistols and SBR's. Black as in Black Rifle. I wouldn't think it's a really a target load other than the fact this particular one is a 308. It was that polymer tip that forced that cone open on impact that did the deed

308 Win 168 gr A-MAX® Hornady BLACK® - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

...

www.hornady.com

Yep. Got em from you!

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Score!! For my R15. Now need camo mounts, high or cantilever.

 

[woodsy85]

Score!! For my R15. Now need camo mounts, high or cantilever. View attachment 265938

That the coyote you been hunting!’


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[Jester896]

I've got 130gr otm federal ( some GI # i forget) I'd like to try. Want to find 100gr or 110gr. To see if I can get +3k speed.

you will have similar/worse results with the OTM. The speed is where the failure is coming from. 400 yards would be a different story I think. I have shot a .45-70 with the FTX bullet and had the same failure and it is a harder bullet. Granted I was on my knees and all I could see was hog nostrils running through the tunnel at me. I have the jacket on my desk at home but lost the tip somewhere.

load up some of the Barnes TTSX in that weight and you will get what you want. I used some 130TSX in a .270 load running 3200fps and there were bone fragment coming outta the entry hole too on a neck shot.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

That the coyote you been hunting!’


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No sadly. But the pattern is close. Bidded on the dang thing and won, lol.

 

[woodsy85]

No sadly. But the pattern is close. Bidded on the dang thing and won, lol.

Well, at least it’s close.


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[Rebel_Rider1969]

Well, at least it’s close.


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If I don't like it, can always sell on here. Good quality scope. BDC too.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

I'm not an expert...but that was a catastrophic bullet failure...for the deer too.

you can see here what Hornady designed it for

A-MAX® - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

The Hornady^® A-MAX^® bullet design grew from a relentless application of everything we know about ballistics and flight characteristics.

www.hornady.com

I don't think you need to pick another rifle.... just a different bullet at the range you were shooting
I have seen MatchKings perform pretty well at 600 yards. I have read that many prefer the ELD-M to the ELD-X too.
If your a Hornady fan it is just hard to beat the BTSP Interlock

Well catastrophic failure made a mess and drt. Looks like a good round to me! Better than a mushroom slug that Flys thru like a fmj? It appears to me it dumped all the energy into the deer. Which is what I want. I have fusion. Sig copper and tula sp.