Phew that's alot of work

[Kurt]

Cant really say for sure Don. I just shot the first ladder loads at 100 yards and they looked very good for shooting in brass that has not been blown out for the chamber and the cases I kept .023" long for the first firing.
Yesterday I shot 75 rounds for the first time to get them blown out to fit the chamber cleaned and trimmed them to the proper length and today I shot another 75 rounds with 1.5 KIK just dropped into the case cant say what the weight was and I used three different bullets from partial trays I had and they weight from 460 to 525 gr and the largest percentage stayed in the 8 ring on a 10 ring target at 200 yards. Those cases are cleaning now.
I'm going to load up a ladder load again today with the 505 gr KAL elliptical like I gave you and the best three will have to do for Sat and Sundays Midrange Match.
I pulled off to the side of the target and shot 5 of the old sharps bullets 528 gr and I must say they stayed in a very good group less then 3" round. That 16 ROT handles them in fine shape.

Don, I must say I really like this rifle. It has the best trigger of any of my rifles. I mounted the tang sights and this is the first rifle that I did not have to drift the front sight over or level up the tang sight. Everything is in the center and the first shot cold out of a clean barrel hits center from yesterdays last shot fired.
And I like the action for shooting dirty. I fired 15 rounds dirty using bullets patched just under bore by one thousand and that block will cam it right in with no problem.
I got the wood in the rough. It was inletted and mounted and I did a lot of sanding and I have three coats of tong oil on the wood and it is looking very good. I left the wood just about a 1/16" above the metal because I don't know how dry it is and I don't want it to shrink below the edges. I just wanted to get enough oil on the wood so I can shoot it this weekend. For standard wood it sure looks nice.

Kurt