02-18-2019, 11:39 PM
I need to make notes when I order bbl blanks so I can look up what I've got coming. Not long after ordering a 1-7tw .224" #4 sporter blank from Krieger, I got a notice from Bartlein that a 1-6.8tw .224" blank in their #3 sporter contour had shipped. To top it off, I'd found another #4 .224" 1-7tw blank on Krieger's inventory list & bought it. I wound up using the PTG 22 Grendel reamer on the Bartlein right after the go gauge finally arrived, and it turned out nicely.
I'd bought a Redding 6.5 Grendel Type S FL bushing die, and already having various bushings suitable for necking down to 6mm, just needed a few that would get me down to 22 cal, so called Grafs & got them coming. I didn't go small enough, since the smallest one (.254") left necks too large, and bullets just dropped in. I needed some other things from Brownells, so ordered .251, .250, & .249 dia bushings. That order arrived at the post office in town, but the guy working on Saturday put a yellow package slip notification in my box instead of putting my package out in one of the parcel lockers in the lobby & a key to the locker in my box - on a Saturday when they're only open until 11:45, and with today being Presidents Day & the PO being closed. No big deal I guess, but I could've been forming 6.5 Grendel Starline brass down to the final neck dia to work with the 22 Grendel bbl on the Mini action over the weekend while the weather was too crappy to do any shooting outdoors anyway. Small wonder that our postal service is losing money hand-over-fist...
I'd bought a Redding 6.5 Grendel Type S FL bushing die, and already having various bushings suitable for necking down to 6mm, just needed a few that would get me down to 22 cal, so called Grafs & got them coming. I didn't go small enough, since the smallest one (.254") left necks too large, and bullets just dropped in. I needed some other things from Brownells, so ordered .251, .250, & .249 dia bushings. That order arrived at the post office in town, but the guy working on Saturday put a yellow package slip notification in my box instead of putting my package out in one of the parcel lockers in the lobby & a key to the locker in my box - on a Saturday when they're only open until 11:45, and with today being Presidents Day & the PO being closed. No big deal I guess, but I could've been forming 6.5 Grendel Starline brass down to the final neck dia to work with the 22 Grendel bbl on the Mini action over the weekend while the weather was too crappy to do any shooting outdoors anyway. Small wonder that our postal service is losing money hand-over-fist...