Facelift Dasher

[WalleyeGod]

After acquiring a new stock and barrel it was time to have it all put back together for my (almost) new long range league rifle and big gopher getter.

As mentioned in an earlier article I sold my HS precision stock and Dasher chambered Lilja barrel to my bro so that I could purchase a McMillan benchrest stock and put on a new Krieger barrel to be chambered in the Dasher also. Other than the action being stainless steel, as opposed to blued, it used to look just like my bro's in the earlier article.

The gun turned out very nice. I had the action bedded professionally as well as the chamber job. I am currently working on the fireforming process to get some brass ready for load development. Here is a pic of the process of taking a new 6br case on the far left and necking it up to .257 (second from left) and then necking it back to 6mm half way down the neck (you should see a hump in the pic), 3rd from the left is a chambered and fired round (see the rounded shoulders and how the walls of the case got longer and the neck shorter, also the shoulder angle change), far right pic is after the second firing with an actual bullet which you can see sharpens up the shoulders and finishes to 100 % the fireforming process.

I use the false shoulder method of fireforming by way of pistol powder, corn meal and TP. You can see the white TP in the end of the case to hold the corn meal and powder in place. Then take it outside and fire away.

It saves on barrel life, bullets, powder, and works very good in getting the cases to approx. 95% formed which is good enough to then take and shoot with bullets on paper or prairie dogs effectively and at a might good distance very accurately.

Just love the smell of gunpowder in the morning.

Happy Easter everyone!

Shoot straight,

WG

[waskawood]

Thanks for sharing WG. Are you using Unique for your 1st fire form? I have been to the EL range twice trying to get my 204 to shoot with less than stellar results. Keep us posted on how the Dasher is shooting. Oops, just re-read your post. You are using pistol powder. Sorry.....

[WalleyeGod]

Waska:

Hope to get to the range later this week. As you know you can also fire-form with a load and shoot method. I did that on the last "gun" and it worked Ok for awhile then I began to have troubles so decided to go to the false shoulder method with this gun. Will see how that goes but initial trials show great promise.

Good luck with the .204

WG

[WalleyeGod]

Waska:

Finished fire forming over the weekend and it all went well. Pretty quiet out there on Sunday except for the Unique burning.

Working on recipes now and will report on results when I get a chance.

WG

[waskawood]

I have been there a few times. Still need some work at 300 and 600 b4 league starts!!! I was hoping to shoot after cleanup tomorrow but it sounds like it will be windy. Grrr........... Found a problem with my Zeiss on the 204. In order to eliminate all the parralax the target is blurry.