Jump to content

686

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1231
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by 686

  1. Beautiful! How many hours does it have on it?
  2. Is it a recessed area or flush with the top of the boat?
  3. I don’t know much about aluminum boats, but have you got a pic of the offending area?
  4. I think the CEO is the son of Dick (founder). I don't know how much stock the family owns, but it may effectively be "his" company to run into the ground, which, yes, he is doing. Somewhat related: Chick-fil-A is by my estimates shaving close to a billion in revenue by not opening on Sundays. The patrons would be lined up out the door at that place at 12:30 on Sundays. We should have a "Stupid Business Decisions and Idiot CEOs" thread.
  5. Has Tooned Out hit the water yet?
  6. Hey Troph I know you said you weren't much on trailering; make sure the dealer's guys take the wheels off your new boat tomorrow before you go hauling up the lake
  7. Did Cajunhorn make it over to Surly from the old board? He bought a new-to-him boat about a year ago, I wonder how things are going.
  8. No reference has published 375 H&H data for the newer slow burning powders that I wanted to try (Superformance, Reloader 26). Regarding both Superformance and Reloader 26, Hodgdon and Alliant only have 12 chamberings of published loads for each. This doesn't really make sense if you're a powder maker trying to get more information out there to help folks select powder. I think its probably for several business reasons: Corporate attorneys want to limit published data to limit liability. There is seemingly a lot more profit margin in Magnum ammunition than small stuff, so it wouldn't surprize me at all if the major ammo manufacturers in the Magnum market contract with their powder suppliers to not publish load data for the powders/chamberings they are making. Specifically, I read somewhere that Hornady had an agreement with Hodgdon to limit published load data of Superformance. Hornady sells "Superformance" 375 H&H Ammo, so I imagine Hornady doesn't want their recipe published. (Reloading the exact Hornady Superformance 375 H&H load would cost you around $35/box, versus buying their ammo @ $70 per box)
  9. The 90 grain load looks like it flattened the primer a little, but no cratering around any of the firing pin indentations
  10. Yeah, but if a 150 grain bullet at 2900 FPS is good, then a 270 grain bullet at 2900 FPS is good-er. All shots were Barnes LRX 270 grain.
  11. Reloading endeavor range report: Made it to the ranch and shot my progressive 375 WBY loads: Everything went great. No issues from my first ever handloads and the velocity numbers were a nice surprise. Success! There aren’t many published loads for 375 WBY, and those that are published seemed like they used faster burning powders than what would be optimal. I ended up trying a powder I thought might work well, but the closest cartridge it has published load data for is the 30-06. I extrapolated the 30-06 data to the 375 WBY. That might have been a little risky for my first attempt, but everything I read lead me to believe it would work fine. The last couple loads were compressed, and the bolt handle seemed just a little tighter when I opened it after the highest load (which I almost didn’t shoot because I was comfortably over my target velocity), which might indicate a little too much pressure. Here’s the data. Next I think I’m going to work up some loads around 2900 FPS and check grouping, then adjust from there if need be. Also need to shoot from the sticks and make sure the recoil hasn’t become ridiculous. Also, I used Caldwell’s phone ap, which is a handy way to automatically log the data, especially when you’re shooting groups:
  12. Rolled up about 10 progressive loads. Hopefully I’ll have some time to swing by the ranch tomorrow and chronograph them and see what the speeds look like. Definitely going to be watching for overpressure signs.
  13. It’s getting real. Trying to get the die positioned correctly to crimp and working up some progressive loads.
  14. Like SB said, first figure out exactly what you've got, both the specs and then operational condition. Then you can look at comparables on the internet, like this: http://www.boattrader.com/search-results/NewOrUsed-any/Type-any/Category-all/Zip-76513/Radius-1000/Length-21,30/Year-1990,2000/Make-sea+ray/Sort-Length:DESC http://www.boattrader.com/listing/1996-sea-ray-270-sundancer-103130904/?refSource=standard listing
  15. Took some time today and got a temporary bench setup, sized and primed 48 cases in about 30 minutes. Had one “oops”: Powder scale came in so hopefully I’ll have some time to finish a few rounds.
  16. Troph can you share some aqueous pics of your Axis with us yet?
  17. G650 is going to blast your maritime screw skills stanco
  18. Yeah, but then the normal gun people might not see all the “fun” they are missing out on. I christened more case prep gear tonight, pretty handy:
  19. I’ve actually never made my own jerky but I really should do that, maybe this year. She got that thing for drying kale (not worth it) and apple slices (a lot of work for the result), so it really only gets used now when I have a big crop of apples from my trees and want to make some apple chips. Since we had it I decided to go ultrasonic instead of the tumbler route, pleased with the result so far, fast and easy.
  20. Here’s the 270 grain LRX I’ll be loading up, pretty great looking bullet for the .375 IMO
  21. Reloading endeavor update: I’ve purchased most of the gear I think I’ll need to get started. I splurged on an Rcbs Chargemaster Lite electronic powder measure, which should get here tomorrow. This evening I wanted to do some case prep, so I used an ultrasonic cleaner for starters, seemed to work well: And then into the wife’s dehydrator for drying:
  22. You mean enjoying the seas together?
×
×
  • Create New...