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Tools and Shooting Accessories
Editors' Picks -- Our Favorite Gear
Gear Sources: Vendor Directory
JLC Precision Custom FL Dies and Wilson Micro-Seaters
-- Great Accuracy Combined with Superior Value --
Custom dies fitted to your chamber produce the best accuracy and longest brass life. You can order a custom die cut with a chamber reamer for $150-$200. A better solution is offered by Jim Carstensen. Send him a Redding 6BR Body Die, and some fired cases, and he will hone the die core for perfect, "just right" body sizing/shoulder bumping. He will also adapt the die to hold Wilson and Redding neck bushings. Your Cost? Only $35 plus the donor die. Does it work? Yes, just ask Al Nyhus, 2003 IBS Champion, who uses JLC bushing dies for his BR rifles.
JLC Precision (Jim Carstensen) jlcprec@netins.net
13095 450th Ave
Bellevue, IA 52031
Shop phone: (563) 689-6258, cell: (563) 212-2984
For seating bullets, we recommend the L.E. Wilson micrometer-top inline seating die. Nothing produces more concentric loads. Order the Wilson Dies from Sinclair Int'l or Midway USA. Cost is about $77, depending on caliber.
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Stiller Precision Eccentric Neck-Turner
-- Poor Man's "Pumpkin" --
There are many quality neck turning tools out there. The micro-adjustable K&M with its unique "doughnut-cutter" is a gem. Many shooters rank Don Nielson's $150 "Pumpkin" as the easiest to use. Jerry Stiller has introduced a large, round neck-turner that works every bit as well as the Pumpkin, at half the price. Like the Pumpkin, Stiller's tool uses an eccentric mandrel for precise adjustability. With a 2" diameter, it's easy on the hands. Stiller's tool uses Pacific Precision cutters (Dave Kiff) and comes in red, blue and green so you can color code them for different barrels or rough vs. final cut. Price is $75 including mandrel from Stiller Precision. |
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Edgewood Rear Bags
-- The Rolls Royce of Rear Rests --
There are just two kinds of BR shooters...those who have one of Jack Snyder's Edgewood bags, and those who wish they did. Nope, there is no Edgewood web site (yet), and you won't find them in Sinclair's catalog. That's because Jack hand-crafts each bag to a customer's specs. You select bag size (standard, Mini-Gator, or Gator), ear height, spacing between ears, and exterior finish. At right is the $95 "Mini Gator", 2" longer than the $85 standard bag. Edgewood also makes great front rest pads. Note: Edgewood is back-ordered and won't be taking new orders until the first of the year. Click here to see the whole Edgewood lineup. (Supersize).
Edgewood Shooting Bags edgewoodbags@aol.com
P.O. Box 276
Edgewood, NM 87015
Phone: (505) 281-0154 |
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Wipe-Out and Tipton Carbon Cleaning Rod
-- Less Copper, Less Labor, and Less Harm to your Barrels --
Wipe-Out foam bore cleaner is a godsend. We tried it. It really works. Spray the shaving-cream-like foam into the bore and after a few hours you just patch out all the copper fouling. The copper just vanishes with virtually no labor. It helps to run a couple solvent-soaked patches through the barrel first to get most of the carbon out. But then just plug the breach, squirt in the foam and wait. We found that 8 hours of soaking did a better job on a badly-fouled factory barrel than did a full hour of brushing and patching with Sweets 7.62 solvent, the strongest stuff we know. And you can soak the bore up to 24 hours without harming the steel. Gale McMillan said he'd seen more barrels ruined by improper cleaning than anything else. Wipe-out will reduce the risk of harming your barrel during cleaning, and it will save hours of laborious scrubbing. (In fact it cleans the copper so well, you may find you need 4-6 fouler rounds to get the barrel back to optimum accuracy.) Even using Wipe-Out, you still need a good cleaning rod. We've tried them all, and our current favorite is the Tipton carbon fiber rod. It doesn't pick up grit, it won't harm your barrel, and there is no coating to peel off. We used to use a Dewey, but the plastic coating came off after a season of use. We also had a Bore-Stix rod and the bearings failed. The Tilton isn't perfect--we think the grip is too fat. But it is still a superior product at a very competitive price, $30 from MidwayUSA. Click for Tipton Rod User Reviews. |
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RCBS APS Hand Priming Tool
-- They Built a Better Mousetrap --
We love this tool and use it for all our precision rifle rounds. No more primer tubes! No more upside down primers or primers dropped on the floor. And no more potential contamination--your fingers never touch the individual primers. The convenient strips let you sort different primer brands by color coding. The tool has plenty of leverage, so you can seat primers nice and hard, but there is still good, positive feel. The unit is speedy--much faster than any single-cup hand priming tool. A unique universal shell-holding head works with any cartridge you load--no more shellholders to fiddle with or misplace. Graf's sells the CCI 450 primers preloaded in strips, item # CCIA450B. The RCBS APS tool costs $38 from major vendors. More Reviews.
See also RCBS Bench-mount strip priming unit. |
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Harrell's Precision Muzzle Brake
-- Great product at a great price --
We use a Harrell's unit on all our rifles that wear a muzzle brake. It reduces recoil and muzzle jump dramatically, yet costs a fraction of most other quality brakes on the market. The brakes must be fitted by a professional gunsmith; installation requires threading your barrel. When installed correctly, the brake will not reduce accuracy--Mark Schronce's 6 BR has shot in the ones at 100yards with a Krieger barrel fitted with a Harrell's brake.
Note, muzzle breaks are legal in 600yd and 1000yd BR competition, but are not allowed in 100/200 yd NBRSA or IBS matches.
Harrell's Precision
Lynwood & Walter Harrell
5756 Hickory Drive
Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 380-2683 |
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Angle Cosine Indicator
-- Keeps Angled Shots on Target --
The "Angle Cosine Indicator" is an invaluable tool for hunters and varmint shooters in mountainous terrain. A rugged precision instrument, it's crafted from aircraft-grade anodized aluminum, in matte green or black. The A.C.I. is completely compatible with the "Mil-Dot Master" and ballistic software, as the cosine numbers are in 5-degree increments. It is simple to use:
1. Get the "angle cosine" number by aiming at the target, then looking at the A.C.I.'s red line.
2. Range the straight-line distance to target and then multiply that distance by the angle cosine number to get your angle-corrected distance.
3. Adjust the elevation knobs on your scope for the "corrected range". That's it!
For more info, visit Sniper Tools or call (800) 651-1050.
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