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The 30 Caliber Bellm Wildcats
There are 4: .300 BS, .308 Bellm, .308 Bellm #2, and .30 Bellm. (Only the .30 Bellm requires custom dies.). 300 BS (Bellm/Stewart) using .307 Win brass or .444 worked back to 2.025″ and .300 Savage dies. Basically same as parallel development by Don Bower, his .300 Super Bower, which is different from the .30
Contender Hammer Safety Issues
The following is taken from the sheet I send out with hammer extensions.It is a general warning about leaving the hammer resting on the firing pin with either the Contender or the Encore. It is for old timers and newbies alike. Failure to observe the following is what has caused at least one manufacturer to
Neck Sizing or Full Length Sizing
THIS IS SOMETHING EVERY T/C SHOOTER SHOULD TRY AT LEAST ONCE. IT IS AN EYE OPENER, ONE THAT WILL HELP YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR CONTENDERS AND ENCORES. Neck Size or Full Length Resize Cases?An Experiment Every Contender Shooter Should PerformThe purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate what happens to bottleneck cases fired at full
Scope Mounting
Scope rings that are machined will vary in height from the bottom of the ring to the bottom of the opening for the scope tube. Not naming names, but with one company’s rings, there can be over .010″ difference in actual ring height in the package!When you clamp your $3-400 scope down in such mounts,
Straight Walled Cases In Contender
WHY P.O. ACKLEY WENT WITH STRAIGHT CASE WALLSP.O. Ackley demonstrated graphically that up to a certain pressure, the staight walled cases adhere to the chamber wall and literally absorb all of the pressure inside the case during firing. You see evidence of this phenomenon yourself from time to time, but don’t realize what you are
Tip On The Encore Trigger
There is quite a bit of latitude in the trigger over travel screw adjustment on the Encores. You can capitalize on this to have a variable weight of pull. Try this. There is quite a bit of latitude in the trigger over travel screw adjustment on the Encores. You can capitalize on this to have