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The birth of a Boondoggle
« on: November 02, 2018, 08:13:14 PM »
As I get closer to having the 270 Boondoggle finished up, I decided that it's time to start forming brass.

Left to right: 375 Ruger for comparison, Ruger basic brass, necked to 375, 338, 308, 270, then trimmed and ready to load.


A dummy round loaded with a 168gr Hammer Hunter seated to feed through an AICS patter mag at 3.670".


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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2018, 08:31:19 PM »
Tagging along.   
https://www.howlforwildlife.org/take_action  It takes 10 seconds and it’s free. To easy to make an excuse not to make your voice heard!!!!!!

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2018, 04:34:08 PM »
Yorke ,  you build some of the coolest stuff I've never heard about  :chuckle: .
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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2018, 06:57:23 PM »
 :o
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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2018, 07:12:18 PM »
Gotta love that name! "Boondoggle"👍
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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2018, 07:37:46 PM »
Gotta love that name! "Boondoggle"👍

It pretty much sums up most of my projects. :chuckle:

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2018, 08:10:01 PM »
Yorke ,  you build some of the coolest stuff I've never heard about  :chuckle: .

This is what happens when you don't have any friends who tell you "no, that's a dumb idea". Instead they come to me and ask for a rimmed cartridge to shoot out of a Butch Searcy falling block action for medium sized African antelope and possibly some weird sheep thing in Tajikistan :chuckle:. To which I answered "What about a 375 H&H Flanged necked down to 7mm and improved?". Isn't that everyone's first thought?

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2018, 04:48:42 PM »
I like it!!!

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2018, 05:18:43 PM »
This would be a blast in 6mm with 1:6 , Maybe talk Steve in to turning out some 120’s. 
https://www.howlforwildlife.org/take_action  It takes 10 seconds and it’s free. To easy to make an excuse not to make your voice heard!!!!!!

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2018, 06:32:23 PM »
This would be a blast in 6mm with 1:6 , Maybe talk Steve in to turning out some 120’s.

I’m still waiting on Steve and my custom .416’s.👍

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2018, 06:48:32 PM »
This would be a blast in 6mm with 1:6 , Maybe talk Steve in to turning out some 120’s.

I’m still waiting on Steve and my custom .416’s.👍

Their hunting season just ended, so he promised to get back to work. :chuckle: I need to call them next week about slapping together the rifle for me.

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2018, 06:52:38 PM »
Maybe you should just break down and buy that lathe :chuckle:
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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2018, 07:17:38 PM »
I did shoot some 7mm 155gr Hammer Hunters the other day. Launched them up to 3409 FPS and still have room to go. Accuracy was good considering the CRAP 💩 bedding job on the rifle.

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2018, 07:35:43 PM »
Maybe you should just break down and buy that lathe :chuckle:

I need to sell more T-shirts to pay for it! Or just stop buying or building new guns, but that's just crazy talk. :chuckle:

I did shoot some 7mm 155gr Hammer Hunters the other day. Launched them up to 3409 FPS and still have room to go. Accuracy was good considering the CRAP 💩 bedding job on the rifle.

Just get in there and start chipping it out of there. I'm convinced that no bedding is better than bad bedding.

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Re: The birth of a Boondoggle
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2018, 07:50:03 PM »
Maybe you should just break down and buy that lathe :chuckle:

I need to sell more T-shirts to pay for it! Or just stop buying or building new guns, but that's just crazy talk. :chuckle:


Could do a few projects for other people to maybe pay for the lathe?

 


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