John, send me an e-mail with your zip code. I'll see how expensive it is. Turns out I can fit these into a 10x13 envelope and they go under a letter rate. It may not be all that bad.

You can add:

Mel Koehler
Sore Shoulder Shooting Supplies
Claresholm AB
403 625 3973

For:
Berger Bullets and Lapua Brass

After wanting one of these for years, decided to jump into the fray. Looking forward to getting it up and running. It is a Jay Young rail. I will probably use an action off one of my LV rifles and screw it on when I want to shoot the rail.

Brian,

1/12 twist will easily stabilize the 66-69 gr bullets. Typical twist for 6mm in a PPC or BR with 63-68 grainers is 13.5-14.0 twist. You could re-chamber it to a BR, and it would work fine for getting your feet wet.

Not sure how the 6BR will fair at 500-600 with light bullets though, pretty sure I would use a fast twist 6BR and heavy bullets for that. But that is another whole topic, of which I know nothing!

Generally speaking what works in short range BR will end up being a purpose built rifle that doesn't do much else very well except shoot through the same hole at 100-200 yds. They make lousy field guns, or f class guns etc.

Being that you are in Sask you may want to get in touch with Ted Gaillard and talk things over with him. Ted recently mentored James G  in BR, and James is kicking our collective butts at the moment! James was in your shoes only 2 years ago. Both Ted and James pop in here once in a while.

Brian,

either of those scopes will work. You see more Weavers than Sightrons, probably because the Weaver has been around longer.

One of the key ingredients in the success of the PPC is the Lapua 220 Russian brass. It is very uniform, resists work hardening, can take lots of pressure, not sure what we would do without it.

Hi Brian, welcome to the forum. You are in good company here as we have a number of BR shooters from Sask, not to mention quite a few coyote callers as well!

Any of those rifles will work to attend a shoot with, and get your feet wet. In time your equipment will evolve into the BR specific cartridges and platforms. Don't be in a hurry to make a bunch of changes in your equipment until you attend a few shoots and get a feel for what people are using.

I don't know what Regina has planned for shoots in 2011, we will likely find out in the Spring.

Where in Sask are you?

Rick

i think there is also an issue as to how to apply a layer of teflon and keep it uniform the length of the bore. Once you start shooting I think it would get stripped away pretty quick.

I suppose you could apply teflon to the bullets, just not sure anyone has figured out a way to do that. The various tumbled coatings we have now are pretty easy to apply. Have you tried moly or danzac?

Lawrence,

Lots of shooting and records were set over the years with 322. The problem is we are sheep to some degree. If some of the top 20 guys were advocating H322 we would all have it by the truckload! Over the last few years the powder of the day seems to be N133. XBR8208 didn't find favour. The old 8208 is still being shot by quite a few guys. Going to be pretty hard to knock N133 off the perch.

FYI new website:

http://robertsoncomposites.com/

Thursday was HV 100 only, with the NBRSA members meeting and a BBQ in the afternoon.

It was so windy even the Midland shooters were finding it rough...

1st. Jack Neary .2196
2nd. Don Creach .2272
3rd. Jay Gore .2300

Big day for Calvin as he figured the range out the best amongst the Canucks
32 Calvin
38 George
71 Rick