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That might indicate a long throat and/or small spec cases and/or anemic low pressure U S A loads that aren't swelling the brass quickly enough to prevent some of the gases escaping around the bullet/neck in a long troat escaping into the chamber. Probably a combination of these factors. Is the "dust" evident on the entire case body back to the head?

Mausers are no different than any bolt action (that utilizes "rimless" cartridges) when it comes to headspace. The distance from the bolt face and the shoulder determines headspace. W/"rimmed" or "belted" cartridges, the rim or belt is the headpace locator. One can also resize these types of fired cases so the shoulder (if present) will headspace. Inspecting the fired case could give some indications of excess headspace. A severely flattened primer W/factory loads would indicate that the primer was pushed out of the case head @ the intial ignition pressure W/the case then slamming back against the bolt face causing the primer to be flattened into the radius around the pocket. The only way to check accurately is to use headspace gauges. I have 8X57 "GO" & "NO GO" headspace gauges. It takes less than a minute to check. Where are you located jjb4900?

I haven't seen case length addresed & it is a very important factor. With each firing & resizing, the case will grow slightly in length. If case length gets long enough, the case mouth will effectively "headspace" at the end of the chamber. If this gets to extremes, the case mouth can become crimped in a tight chamber spec elevating chamber pressures as it impedes the release of the bullet from the case.

^^^^Yeah, what he said!^^^^

Here is the "poster child" for the argumant against ARs. 4 1/2 yrs old, 219# dressed weight 4 point! "Bullet proof" deer under ARs & I never saw another mature buck in the area until I killed him. I won't shoot a young buck anymore, but I have a young man in his mid 20s hunting my place for deer on his 1st season next year. It would suck if he couldn't shoot the 1st buck he saw if he had an ethical shot.

I sight in my rifles @ 100yds so that I have maximum point blank range + or - 3". I use actual chronograph measured Mv & ballistic coefecients for the bullets I am using to plot the trajectory. Usually 2 1/2" to 2 3/4" high @ 100yds, depending on caliber. I can take shots to 275-310yds, again, depending on caliber, W/a dead on (vertical) center of the chest hold & routinely take whitetails @ 190-260yds. Nothing irresponsible about that, but it's a far cry from what the OP did. ^^^^What he said^^^^

Does Lapua brass have drilled primer flash holes like Norma or are they punched like U S brass? Are the case heads a full .473"? I like '06 Norma brass for my 8mm-06 A.I. because of the drilled flash hole & case spec's that wern't undesize like U S cases. Lapua is considerably less expensive than Norma.

I started my reloading adventeures W/an 8mm-06 Ackley Improved. W/180gr .323 NBTs @ 3000fps, it would blow chunks of Whitetail lungs the size of walnuts onto the ground. Unfortunately the guy that did the barrel turned it too thin & it walked POI. I'm going to get another barrel chambered for it W/a beefier profile. W/the new modern high energy powders I should be able to get about 2900fps W/200gr pills.

I use powdered mica on the case necks for lube. It shows exactly where the die stops. I want the die to just kiss the shoulder when loading for a specific bolt action rifle. The cases fired in my 7mm-08 M700 Mnt Rfl DBM as well as loaded cases resized for the same chamber needed the dies set considerably shorter for the Savage AXIS-II I recently worked with. Ammo loaded for the M700 would chamber only with considearble bolt closing resistance in the Savage. After re-setting the dies there was just slight resistance at the very last bit of bolt closure, just enough to feel positive headspacing. It took some trial & error to achieve that precise fit. Cartridges loaded for semi-auto, pump or lever actions should usually have the dies screwwed down all the way for full length resizing. Also be aware that insuffecient case lube will cause the rim to pull slightly as the die is withdrawn giving a false (tight) headspace "feel". If you suspect such a situation, color the case head W/some sort of dark marker & pass it lightly over some fine emory or sandpaper laid on a hard flat surface (or a fine mill file) to see if there is a high spot. If you find that situation, set those cases aside & re-visit your case lube procedure & die setting. DO NOT attempt to flatten the rims W/stock removal! If the rims aren't severely deformed, you could probably salvage those "tight" feeling cases by loading them with moderate pressure plinking loads which will flatten the rims back to spec'.

Magnification range is kinda high.

Street price for the AXIS-II is about $430.

If you think Andrew Quomo is a liberal you're wearing blinders. He's an anti-union, anti public education, gun-grabbing conservative masquerading as a Democrat. You must think the "conservative" politicians are still concerned about your 2nd amendment rights after they got your vote. This past election was a farce. The 1% backed Quomo & ran a sacrificial lamb against him. If you paid attention, it appears that the negative TV ads against Astorino were from the same source as the ones against Aaron Wolfe.

I grew to my full height @ 15. Your son will most likely soon outgrow a youth model & they also have 20" barrels compared to 22" for the full size model. More recoil, more muzzle blast. It's a rifle, not a shotgun. He will be able to adapt to a (temporarily) slightly long stock with the deliberate shooting style of a rifle. In another year the youth model might be too short.

He won't get the nomination next time around. An underfunded newcomer took 35% of the primary vote this time.

Leupy 3-9X33.

7mm-08 will handle anything from groundhogs to elk W/the bias towards the larger game. If one reloads, bullets from 110gr to 175gr are available. .243 is maxed out @ 105gr.

What flavor of ammo did you find grampy?

I liked the Sears ads W/Ted Williams. When I 1st started hunting hear the S. side of the Chicago suburbs in the '60s I bought a lot of my hunting stuff & shotgun shells from Sears. My 1st shotgun was a J. C. Higgins 16ga pump made by High-Standard. Lots of gun ads for brands no longer prevailent. The H&R M300 Bolt gun ad brought back memories & some very high quality European names were also represented. Again I was amazed @ the concern for the enviroment. Almost all of the articles about political/social issues were stressing the need for conservation. I remember how you could see the reddish cast in the air over Lake Calumet & the smog rolling up the Alegheny River in the summer. Pennsylvania did a great job cleaning up coal mine polluted streams in that era, turning many into pretty nice put & take trout fisheries.

Not much more than a .243. They are both based on the .308 case. To start him out you could use 120gr reduced recoil loads. Then as he grows step up to standard 140gr loads or eventually go full bore with "Super Performance" loads. You would be covering a performance envelope from mild 257 Roberts recoil/energy to 270 Win/280 Rem power/trajectory. Perfectly capable of taking Elk size game with effeciency. 7mm-08 is a much more flexible cartridge than a .243. I always recommend it as a great beginer's caliber that will never be outgrown.

I started reading the "cheers & jeers" section & found it puzzling how "sportsmen" of that erra were so concerned about enviornmental issues while today we seem to be at odds with conservationists.

Those small one would be tender when they were fried.

What are the rules & how is the score derived?

That's the reasoning behind some midwestern states allowing the straight wall rifle cartridges. Or rather smaller numbers of deer in the past were part of the reasoning behind shotgun/muzzleloader only. Pennsylvania had shotgun W/rifled slugs only & buckshot only counties when I lived there. That was solely due to poulation density. Allegheny Co (Pittsburgh area) was rifled slug only & it was becoming quite the trophy deer area in the earlly '70s. The counties around Philli were buckshot only.

Good point. What is the firearms deer kill within the cities of Watertown & Corning anyway?

Could it be that population densities might have something to do W/it? Besides, these things are decided by the people that live there & I would think the residents would have more say than someone that wants to hunt in the vicinity that may or may not even live in the area..