Having the privilege to be a firer in the winning NSW F-open team last year at Lower Light with Dennis as the captain I whole heartedly wish him and the rest of the team the best of luck in South Africa. I am confident they will represent Australia very well!!! We should be throwing support behind o...

Thanks Matt and Willow.

Anyone have a RL23 start load for 180gr VLD’s?

Currently shooting around 50.6gr of 2209 for 2820fps

I have a 1lb jug of the new RL16 that I’m yet to try in both my Dasher and 284win so will knownsoon enough what it’s capable of. But has anyone tried RL23 in their straight 284? If the online boards in the US are to be believed velocities in the low 2900’s are easily achieved without trashing brass....

I swap barrels on and off my barnard, sometimes between ranges. I just keep good records of elevation for each barrel at the various ranges. As for windage. I keep records of how far from the bottom of the wind turret the zero is for each barrel. No need to have a second scope and zero is always spo...

Are these still for sale?

I have pm’d you for more contact info

Regards

Ben

Thanks for the tip Scott. I disassembled the bolt last night, it already has the small ball bearing mod where the assembly screw contacts the firing pin assembly. (There’s the case head of a 38special shell with a ball bearing glued in) But there was no grease at all on the floating bolt lugs (duh) ...

Trev I have fired several thousand 450’s with my barnard in the last couple of years without issue, I have just started using a new lot no in the last few weeks I can check it for you if you like.

Yes this is new brass out of the box, all I have done is run an expander through it to ease neck tension a little.

On the subject of cartridges, there are currently a lot more projectile choices in 6mm at the moment, a 6BR or an improved version is stupidly easy to make shoot accurately and the improved versions don’t give up much ballistically to the 6.5’s, I shot 6mm the whole ACT queens to reasonably good eff...

To save diasapointment and if F-open is the game you truly want to play in I can only recommend saving your pennies for a custom target action and have a match barrel chambered and fitted by a reputable gunsmith. (Even an old 2nd hand angel/musgrave yaction or similar will work very well). Even an o...

G’day guys. My dad has an entry level F-open rifle built on a Model 12 Rt bolt left port. It has a Krieger 8twist chambered in 6.5x47L with the same reamer I have had two other 6.5barrels chambered on my Barnard. The issue we are having is the bolt is getting heavy to open with what I consider to be...

What about the new Sierra 107’s with the uniformed tips?? How do they compare BC wise and tuning compared to the Berger 105 Hybrid. I am happy with the hybrid and have 1400 on the shelf at the moment however looking for other alternatives to use in a club shoot or practise and keep the Berger’s for ...

I will try and give some account of today and yesterday. Conditions yesterday and today were the usual switching and fickle wind with the flags rarely steady and even more rarely agreeing with one another. The tricky conditions meant many were using a good chunk of their allotted time yesterday, tha...

I am uncertain if winding the power back helps to reduce sighting error, it certainly makes he target look a little more still. This is something I would really like to know as well. Mirage is often compared to the spoon in a glass of water I understand that may just to be illustrate two substances...

What is the stitch spacing please?