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first bamboo arrow...
stickbender:
Nice arrow, Shooter, should be able to put some meat on the table. Yep Eddie, a clean, and organized shop is a sign of a sick mind. ;D Poor ol Shooter, will never know the abject joy, of finding something, once thought irretrievably lost. ;D :D ;D ;D
Wayne
sailordad:
yard sales man, i'm telling ya the things ya can find.
trad gear is still out ther but its getting a little harder to find even at the yard sales.
sometimes though you can get lucky and find dozens of old wood arrows very cheap.
i was showing an uncle of mine,the guy who taught me to shoot trad years ago,some of my hand made bows and knives and he offered to give me some of his old gear and a box of old files. he said i would have to wait untill spring,like i'm gonna say no.
he wont touch anything now without wheels :'(,old is old new is new,thats his motto
me i like to think old is old,new is new,primitive is way cool 8)
peace,
tim
Shooter_G22:
stickbender,
believe me i know the thrill of finding something that once thought was lost for ever... lol... i keep a tight reload bench but thats about it..lol... the rest of my house and gear is mostly incredibly messy... ;) but i try and keep my reload stuff very detailed becuase when i shoot i shoot for perfection beyond most people's comprehension... and this means i shoot for pin point accuracy... most people that say pin point accuracy dont really mean it literaly but in my case it is what it is... and i mean i shot the inside 1/4" diamond out of a 1" target (the size of a us quater) out at a hundred yards and try to keep my groups under 3" out to about 800 yrds... the only way i can do this is of coarse to shoot a precision made round through a precision made sniper rifle accuratly tuned and perfected and useing formula's that calculate tempature , humidity, elevation above sea level and of coarse your basic windage and elevation... but i factor everything in even to the time of the day and what i have eating and or suger / cafine intake for that day.. all loged in my small book.. sick ... yeah ok i guess soo... :-\
but the reason i keep my rlb so clean and organized is becuase to be able to produce such surgical rounds is that you have to do a lot of match brass prep work i mean wieght to 1/10 of a grain the brass, mic the case wall thickness and measure everything to how many times it was fired and what i even seperate the brass that i use for differant bullet types and powder load my shots one at a time and place the brass with the headstamp facing the same way every time... may seem a little extrem but this is how when i squezz the trigger i know exactly where that bullet will land.. every time and now i realize that yea i must be a sick puppy ;D...
but since i have been messing with the P A i havent even touched my Reload components in months... weird considering this time last year i was probably hitting the range 1 -2 times a week and i this whol hunting season i have been to the range once and havent been back since and i have sqeezed off one round since thaen that took a small seven pointer... and thats it... wow.... i really am addicted to PA... :D
but as for my tools shop and or where i work on my stuff i got half of my tools here at my apt. and hafl at my fathers place in his garage... soo i am a mess when it comes to that... and my field gear or other stuff is all over the place mostly clutter up in closets or all over the place stacked up in conners and if im working on something inside and dont finish it then it might stay ther for a couple of days and then eventually get put up or worked on till completion... whew i feel better knowing that that is ok..lol... but the rlb is probably the only organized and clean looking section in my whole house...lmao.. and i have even been told by cousins and or girlfriends why cant you keep your apt organized like your work bench... i just anwesr becuase my apt dont make a differance betweena life or death shot... @ 800 yrds... ;)
stickbender:
Well shooter, you and I have a lot in common. I too want a precision bean field rifle. I don't want to settle for an inch and a half at a hundred yds. I have an old Remington 6mm. that would right out of the box put three shots, that a dime would cover at a hundred yds, and do it consistently. Unfortunately, it no longer has that precision. I am going to have a precision barrel made for it by Liljian, in Montana. They are not far from where I will be living. Their prices are not bad. They make barrels for the Olympians. But they only make the barrels, they don't thread, or fit them to your gun. They have a couple of Gunsmiths that they recommend though. It is good that you are that particular about your bench, and loads. I know to do that kind of precision shooting, you need hand loads. Some rifles will prefer certain bullet brands, and powders. And when you are loading high power rifles, the right brass, and consistency of wall thickness, and neck dimensions, primer caps, etc. are critical. Not to mention powder weight, and pressure limits. I need to dig out my reloading sets, and start loading again. I am going to stock up on powder, and primers, and bullets. Between now and June some bad tidings for us, is about to start. But you can take the same steps for your arrows, and get impressive results with them also. You need to get the kids making their own arrows, and they will respect the work that goes into making them, and also get them to be a little more lenient on them, and not so much stump and rock shooting...... ;D I hope your New Year goes well for you and yours.
Wayne
Shooter_G22:
Yea Wayne,
i have been geting them involved in the process of arrow building they work on a few oak dowels getting them preped and even have them spaying clear and rear dip crest but we are not dipping them we are spraying them... dont have dip tubes yet... and we have been harvesting bamboo and privote and we just got some feather choppers in on trade and we got some goose feathers sent to us by little john soo they have been slowly learning to build them up... we have alot of training and soo little time to do it in soo we jump back and forth on the classes and take our time and try and get it all end eventually it all come to gather... thats the plane anyways...
as for the precision rifle.. i would look into the .260 rem caliber... that is probably the most accurate commercial round out there right now that is not a wild cat or custom cartridge... its the famous 6.5 mm projectile with the case of a .308 brass necked down to a 6.5 mm witch in my opinion is probably the most accurate projectile in its class... way better than the 6mm and the "7.62mm" that i love so much...
you say your thinking of rebaraling the m700 right??? well if you rebarrel your already haveing to pay for rechamber and rethread might as well change over to a better round..
just a thought...
you said your shooting the 6mm out of your remington now right ... well wht 6mm is it??
is is the 6mm spc or the 6mm br or is it the 243, 6mm-06 ???
either way...
if your gonna hand load.... i know the .260 is hard to beet!!!
had a very important and wise man tell me once that the future of snipping should or might even go to that...
but then again who knows...???
the .260 is an awsome round and will do anything you ask it too with in its class...
of coarse this is all heresay becuase i personally dont own one but... i have done some pretty good research and i would recomend it to some one that shoots a 6mm ;)
anyways just my own opinion...
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