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.338 rounds and rifle
I finally got some odd 225 and 250 gr. jacketed Hornady rounds for test fits into a couple necked out 7mmBR hulls. After slipping the beasties in I couldn't tell which projectile was which I then ordered a Frankford Arsenal bullet puller, 7mmBR brass, 7mm bullets and other doodads from Midway. I can now do some further forming and test loading.
I used a Lee three/four hole turrent press which is not really suited to full time forming of a lot of rounds because of the auto index. I'll get another heavy Lee press for serious work in forming.
I ordered a Douglas XX barrel in 22" length .338 Whisper with the reamer being provided by C-D reamers of Georgia (hope I got the second letter right). These guys say one reamer can do the job in one shot without a rougher - unless you can sorta-kinda drill it out a bit first. The barrel will be the same weight as the Savage varmint format as found on the stainless fluted type.
Thix is for a Savage 110F non-accu trigger action originally in 270 and my other one is 7mm Rem mag. I also have a .308 stainless barrel mentioned above. I ordered a Bishop stock in Sierra format which is a conservative sporter with 2.125" optional wider forearm, a modest cheekpiece, channel suited to the barrel, a 1" buttpad, and in solid walnut. However that will take about 8-9 weeks to arrive.
I have an XP-100 beating about somewhere which I managed to mislay. How can anyone lose something like that with a 14" barrel? I can use it as is in 7 mmBR but will sleeve the bbl. to get over 16" and take the aluminum block race gun stock and put a butt on it. Then I can legally register the thing as a rifle as pistols are massively persecuted in Chicago. I could go to .338 Whisper with that using a dedicated SSK barrel rifled to a particular weight of projectile or I could go to the Whisper variants in the smaller calibers - believe there is a 7mm based on the .221 Fireball which would enable me to overlap some of the projectiles with what is used in the 7 Rem mag.
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