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One of my best 6mm barrels was a Lilja. And as Dave said, Carson is a gem. One of those people you meet and immediately like.

Quote from: gman47564 on April 18, 2024, 06:56:03 PMWell I'm not going to be able to shoot in the factory class after this next match.. I ordered me a Lilja 26" match chambered straight contoured barrel for my 457 yesterday.. might as well play with the heavy hitters if I'm gonna play..

I think with Lilja, you can get shims to adjust headspace on the 457.

Quote from: LeadHammer on April 18, 2024, 11:09:34 PMI think with Lilja, you can get shims to adjust headspace on the 457.

Lilja sends a shim kit with the barrel..👍

Got another 22lr match in the morning.. was wanting to get a little practice in today but we have had 20+ mph winds all day.. hoping they lay a little this evening..

Quote from: gman47564 on May 11, 2024, 05:17:57 PMGot another 22lr match in the morning.. was wanting to get a little practice in today but we have had 20+ mph winds all day.. hoping they lay a little this evening..

Good luck Grant!

Thanks dave..

Good luck Grant.....have a great shoot.

Thanks bob..

The wind laid enough to do a little testing of my sort to see which bunch shot the best.. I will be shooting 51.3 and 51.4 tommorow


It's cool to me to see how the sort opens up and goes vertical then closes back up.. alot like powder charges in a center fire

Grant, you are convincing me that I need to now start sorting my RF ammo....just what I needed....lol  

I sucked at that match this morning.. finished dead last.. pretty much self inflicted 

If you learned from your mistakes it was worth it. 👍

Bummer Grant......but we've all been there.  Sounds like you know the mistakes.  Next time !!!

Yesterday afternoon when I was testing my sort I didn't feel like my gun was shooting as good as it normally does so about 9 pm I went out and thought I would check the chamber to see if I might have a carbon ring forming.. sure enough I had a bad one.. so I took the thrro clean stuff to it and removed the carbon ring and just went ahead and cleaned the entire barrel.. knowing I would have time to foul the bore back in with a box of shells before I went to the match.. so I took a box of the 51.6 weight out this morning and shot them. The worst bunch of the sort yesterday.. after about 25 rounds it started printing 5 shot one hole groups.. I thought yep that carbon ring was the culprit.. done had the 51.3 and 51.4 rounds in my bag and loaded everything up.. before I left I thought man I should take a box of the 51.6 with me just in case.. walked out of the house and jumped in the truck and took off.. got to the match and thought dang I didn't grab the 51.6 box.. some as I started shooting my sighters I knew I was in trouble.. neither 51.3 or 51.4 shot very well.. but I did have about 18 rounds of 51.7 in my bag.. I ran the kyl rack twice with them then had to go to the 51.4 weight and the wheels fell off the rest of the match.. lesson learned.. keep a eye on the carbon ring and take the right sort for the condition of the barrel..

I must have missed it earlier, what are you sorting? What does the number represent?

I sort the sk+ by the weight of each round