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Originally Posted by BlackZeda After many years of trying to convince him, my friend finally sold me this baby. It is a S&W 686 Combat and the trigger is dreamy:

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Old 07-07-2015, 11:47 AM   #4081 (permalink)
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After many years of trying to convince him, my friend finally sold me this baby. It is a S&W 686 Combat and the trigger is dreamy:



This may be my new favorite gun!
I've always liked the action on the 686. It's on my list of guns to get, moving it's way to the top.
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I've always liked the action on the 686. It's on my list of guns to get, moving it's way to the top.
I also have a Ruger GP100 4" in stainless which I also love. If I had to choose between it and the 686, I would probably go with the S&W since it holds one more round.

There is just something about a wheelgun...and it can't be beat in regard to reliability.
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I've always liked the action on the 686. It's on my list of guns to get, moving it's way to the top.

I've been wanting one for years, but I always end up buying autos. Nothing more beautiful than a Smith and Wesson medium or large frame revolver.
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My t2 dot is very crisp magnified. My t1 dot was a diagonal slash. Unmagnified they were the same. T2 works very well magnified. T1 not so much.

On this rifle I got about a 2moa shift with the suppressor.
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High with the muffler? With everything being the same.The suppressor usually increases bullet velocity. Which makes the bullet fly flatter.
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Everyone I know that has a muffler, including me. All shoot high because of the increase in velocity. Usually about 150fps. Have heard of a few that the point of impact shifted left or right also.
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One of my cans shoots a touch higher than the other. I believe it's straight down, though, as a whole, with this can on this gun.

What you're talking about is "freebore", and it's typically less than the variance from shot to shot in velocity increase, and some suppressors don't have any appreciable freebore effect. At the extreme edge you're looking at about a 20fps increase or so on rifles, maybe 30-50 with a pistol.

No, the POI shift has to do with changing the barrel's harmonics, and there is no written rule.
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I have never seen that documented. Every single documented comparison shows VERY MINIMAL freebore boost, as I said in my other post.

I would challenge you to show this to me, this 150fps increase. As a datapoint, all of the rifles I've suppressed shoot low with the can, to varying degrees. Again though, it's just harmonic variance. YMMV of course. The 150fps increase though, is many times what I've seen proven.

Here is one example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnG1dz0Du0
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Out of 14 of us that have mufflers. 11 shoot high. One shoots to the left some, and the other 2, who knows.
On this topic. Found out some stuff. Some, if not all was using different loads when we was testing bullet impacts with the cans. So the results that I was looking at was crap. Had a chance to redo this with a couple of the guys using the same loads, and my new Chrono. Impacts had very little change (1/2 MOA at the most), as did the velocity (10~25 on the avg). All of this is on 3 AR15's shooting .223/NATO, and 1 AR10 in .308. The assumption was that I thought the guys all was using the same loads for testing with/without the cans. You know when you assume something. You become the first 3 letters in that word.
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My latest. Brand new .308 hunting rifle.









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Looks like an ASA side cocking top?
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Looks like an ASA side cocking top?
Sort of. It's proprietary. So as to not be a "variant" of something nasty and to qualify as non-restricted here in Canada. I can acutally hunt with this thing!
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Nothing like sorting through 2000 Sierra .224, 69gr. Match King bullets. Each bag is .001" difference in length. Had one bullet at .007", and two bullets at .019". Can you say flyers! Everything else fell in between.







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Why the red thing on the caliper?? I have noticed if I compress a load I deform the tip of the hollow point making the OAL longer. Other times when I don't deform the tip my OAL can still very with the calipers even though my settings never touched. I'd say my loads can range from 2.240-2.258.

And PS I thought I was anal and loading and sorting.
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The red thing on the caliber is how you measure the bullet ogive.

If you are compressing your loads to get the AOL, and deforming the bullet tip. You GOT PROBLEMS! I would switch to a faster burning powder that took less to get the velocity you want. Are you using bullets with a cannelure or smooth sided? Also, I gave up on compressed loads. Not worth the trouble. Especially if you are shooting with a semi-auto. Alot of times, the bullet will move out of the case with it being slammed into position by the bolt.

Long time ago. I ran into the same problem you have now with AOL. Found out if I sort through the bullets and group them. I eliminated the problem.
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Best way to describe it.

Effects of COAL and CBTO | Part 2 | Berger Bullets Blog

The red thing on the caliber is how you measure the bullet ogive.

If you are compressing your loads to get the AOL, and deforming the bullet tip. You GOT PROBLEMS! I would switch to a faster burning powder that took less to get the velocity you want. Are you using bullets with a cannelure or smooth sided? Also, I gave up on compressed loads. Not worth the trouble. Especially if you are shooting with a semi-auto. Alot of times, the bullet will move out of the case with it being slammed into position by the bolt.

Long time ago. I ran into the same problem you have now with AOL. Found out if I sort through the bullets and group them. I eliminated the problem.
Well the hornadys have a lot of hollow point so to deform the nose isn't hard as its hollow copper. I've even done it if the case isn't 100% smooth with the burs removed or tapering the neck.

If you recall I tried that AA4068 or whatever it was and at 24gr it was up in the neck. Now I picked up RL15 and I can't do 24.9gr which is the max for 2850ftps. At 24.5gr it's a hair lower than the AA at 24gr. So it's a compress ever so lightly. But after testing I think I'm gonna use 24.1gr and hope for 2800 flat.

Hornadys are smooth wall. I've always tested a few at home ejecting the rounds to see if there's any movement and i test again at the range. I'll fire a round off, pull the next round and measure. So far it's been all good. My die seems to do a great job making the neck tight.

Ok after I test these 3 sets of charges with RL15 ill measure all the bullets and sort them before mass production. Then Im guessing I'll have to adjust the die to achieve 2.250 OAL for each set of bullets? Obviously it wouldn't be good to adjust longer rounds as that increase pressures by pushing the bullet down in further?
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You still load the bullets to the AOL. But now since you have them sorted out by the ogive. The distance from the ogive to the rifling is now uniform with each batch. I've been told that .003" difference between the ogive length is ok. What I found out with the 2000 bullets I sorted. Had a total difference of .012" in the ogives. Have some batches with less then 100 bullets, and one with over 300 bullets. So I will reload with each batch.
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