Help With Loads for a .338-06 Ackley Improved.

[jb747]

I got Dave Kerr to build me a 338/06 for my last NT trip. Wonderful cartridge.
I just used the ADI data with my rifle. No issues up to their max loads. So, with the AI, you could start (more or less) at the max for the normal round and go from there.

It just worked a treat with the 225 SST.

[Divey]

G'day Pete,

Tell me a little more on Ken Waters book.
I just chucked $50.00 bucks towards the McGrath Foundation and this book is $75.00 dollars.
It would have to be a pretty good book for those dollars and I would like them listing some Australian Powders. I find it a pain in the arse to look at loads and then cross reference them to Australian Powders.

If you could be kind enough to type up a couple of suggested loads for 250 grain projectiles I would be happy.

Regards,
Lindsay.

[locutus]

Lindsay

Send me a private message with your email address and I'll email you a .pdf of the loads, there is a fair few of them.

Pete

[Cranky Bugga]

Uncle Nicks manual has loads for 338/06 A- square . These include the AR powders, as usual cross reference his loads with other sources and this will give you a starting point.

In NSW you do not need to register an action only. It must be registered when it becomes a complete rifle. I just took my unregistered action to Shane and applied for a PTA -he registered the gun when it was finished.

Have fun

Cheers

[The Kiwi]

Interesting prospect, registering an action (bare) with the bureaucracy, and especially when you eventually 'wildcat' it!
Thy sometims do not undersdtand that an action is,in itself, just a few (admittedly precisioned) lumps of metal, about as dangerous as two chopsticks.(let's not go there!)
As for wildcats, that is well beyond the understanding of (those who know all.) -(bureaucrats)
Try contacting your weapons licensing branch and ask to talk to a senior officer, the enxplain the situation to him; that the action has been in your possession as a spare or just overlooked, and what youn intend having done to it. It may be worth you while to pass it on to your friendly 'smith (who is going to do the work).
A frank open approach often works. Good lucK!

In the ACT you have register barrels, and if they don't have a number on them, you are issued with one which has to be engraved on to it!! After I had complied with this, I then asked which number would apply when I used one of the barrels I have registered in an action I already own, I was told to bring it in on a day the guy I was talking to, would be away from work so he didn't have to make that decision. They can't decipher their own rules, so how are we expected to abide by them???

The Kiwi.

[Divey]

Interesting prospect, registering an action (bare) with the bureaucracy, and especially when you eventually 'wildcat' it!
Thy sometims do not undersdtand that an action is,in itself, just a few (admittedly precisioned) lumps of metal, about as dangerous as two chopsticks.(let's not go there!)
As for wildcats, that is well beyond the understanding of (those who know all.) -(bureaucrats)
Try contacting your weapons licensing branch and ask to talk to a senior officer, the enxplain the situation to him; that the action has been in your possession as a spare or just overlooked, and what youn intend having done to it. It may be worth you while to pass it on to your friendly 'smith (who is going to do the work).
A frank open approach often works. Good lucK!

In the ACT you have register barrels, and if they don't have a number on them, you are issued with one which has to be engraved on to it!! After I had complied with this, I then asked which number would apply when I used one of the barrels I have registered in an action I already own, I was told to bring it in on a day the guy I was talking to, would be away from work so he didn't have to make that decision. They can't decipher their own rules, so how are we expected to abide by them???

The Kiwi.

How in the name of God do these simple politicians make such dumb decisions? If they only had the brains to get a few fair dinkum shooters in there to sort the shit fight out.

What does the bench rest shooter do when he has that many barrels for the one rifle he looks like Robyn Hood with arrows in his quiver. When one barrels buggered he chucks it in the bin
FFS this whole firearm registration thing needs a big shake-up to bring all states into line. Not real difficult!

In regards to my action, I purchased a barrel and sent the whole lot to our resident Gunsmith. I applied for a Permit to Acquire and once that was returned I sent that to him. It is now a simple matter for him to complete the form and the rifle eventually becomes registered in my name.

Now, on a different note. What do we do when we go hunting in another State or Territory?? Do you have to take reams of paperwork with you to prove the rifle is registered in your name but in another State?
Is there such a thing as temporary registration of a Firearm? I'll bet not!
Frigging idiots....it's out of control at the moment. I hate it.

And another thing, how bloody stupid is it that some people who have shooters licenses, however, they have been inactive for a few years, are forced to attend some type of shooting activity four times a year.

Just imagine a few other sports in the same situation!!!! "I don't want to play Golf this year but the bastards have made me become a member of the Golf Club and attend there four times a year".....Yea right.

Sorry about the little rant but it gets up my hooter.

Regards,
Lindsay.