Halloween special: Let's share our loadouts! 👻

[alan]

Happy Halloween gun nerds!

If the apocalypse hit tonight and the dead started walking, what would you have ready in your loadout? Would you use your reliable shotgun, your favorite AR, or that trusty sidearm? Don't forget about your gear too!

Share your setup!

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

This is what I shot today...I also shot some factory 300 WM, and couldn't get my LabRadar picking up my trigger...there was another guy there who was dialing in 22-250 to take 'yote hunting in Colorado. I think it was a ruger varminter, a fairly inexpensive rifle.

Let me explain this picture, it had 8 loads with H4831, with Hornady 130 CX bullets, in new brass, those are the cases on the 2 left rows. Anything without a primer in it was not loaded or shot, and in the middle there are 13 loads using new brass, and 12 loads using once fired brass in my chamber.

This is my unscientific conclusion. The once fired does fit my chamber better, easier to close the bolt. The new brass is a tad tighter to close.

I didn't have a target to dial in with, and couldn't get my LabRadar working with the trigger...so the fact I had the tripod stable didn't really help...I also shot 3 rounds of Nosler 180 E-Tips, and 3 rounds of Barnes Vortex wtih Hornady 180 CX bullets, both in 300 WM. After I realized I could have bore sighted and dialed in on a closer target, but didn't think about that, and need to load more ammo now. All of this brass is fired now, and the cases without primers have been sized. I only sized what I loaded, and only had 25 Barnes 127 LRX bullets left, hence the 13/12 split.

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

I know, I know...Halloween is going...buy reloading is still here...I drove down to San Jose, to have lunch with my wife...I don't know if I can't still call her my wife, although we're married, so did pay me $56k she owed me for estimated taxes...taxes are brutal in CA.

I have a slight problem converting the 6.5 PRC to M5 bottom metal, as it's just a tad too wide for the stock inlet, so I need to widen it a tad. And I will have some issues with the 300WM long action as well, waiting on a recoil lug, and it's gonna need to be opened some, possibly I can do it with a file.

Because of that, I ordered a box of Peterson brass in 270 Weatherby Magnum, and a box of McGuire 128 grain Copper Rose bullets. This will give me 6.5 PRC and 270 Weatherby Magnum to hunt with this year, and I think that's a better combination than the 6.5 PRC and 300 Win Mag. The 6.5 PRC and 270 Weatherby Magnum are much better suited against each other. My 270 Weatherby Magnum has a picatinny rail on it already, so can accept the Zeiss Conquest 4-14 scope I have for it with a set of 1" rings. This is a non-illuminated scope in SFP.

And that my friends is going to be it for me for this season.

May the pigs get what they deserve...

We have a lot of pigs in this state, aside from the Democraps in control...