My rockchucker turned 29 years old this year, bought it new when I was 18. I use a frankford arsenal hand primer. How does that savage 340 shoot? Do you have a scope on it?Originally Posted by Jbotto
JTD
My rockchucker turned 29 years old this year, bought it new when I was 18. I use a frankford arsenal hand primer. How does that savage 340 shoot? Do you have a scope on it?
JTD
Was finishing up last night at the bench and decided to start on a whole new cartridge. Set up dies for .30/30 which I’ve never loaded before. I got in the groove and probably sized 50 or so cases before I realized how late it was. I have probably 150 more to go here in the apartment and might have some out near the tumbler in the garage too. Someday I’ll land a good deal on a used lever gun but for now my old Savage 340 will have to work for these.
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Are you able to drift the sights on it? Is it drilled and tapped for a scope mount? I was going to load up some 243 and 22hornet test loads today, but I lazied out.
JTD
Yes sir. Drilled and tapped for side-mount scope and also peep sight. But I love the wide-open iron sights. The rear sight is driftable, but I just haven’t got to it yet. I’ll include some pictures. It’s just a neat little rifle as I had passed one up years and years ago with a period correct weaver 2.5x on it for $250. I kicked myself for a long time a few years after that before I stumbled onto this one. All original, just needing some TLC ( that it still hasn’t received ) and walked away with it for $125.
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Great rifle!!! Anybody load anything today?
JTD
Nope, I didn’t get time to do much of anything yesterday. Maybe tonight I’ll get some time at the bench.
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Yesterday afternoon I got back to my partial coffee can of .30/30 brass that I resized last weekend. Sorted out by brand and realized I didn't have as much brass as I initially thought. I currently have my Lyman trimmer set up for 7mm-08 and my friend who I'm helping with the 7mm-08 still has some factory ammo that he hasn't shot yet. I'm not wanting to take that apart to set up for another case size at the moment so I may dig out another trimmer that I have mothballed to work on a different project.
I do the same thing with my trimmer. Once it is set I finish what it is set for, before moving on to something else.
JTD
I managed to load up 3 test loads for my Armalite AR-10 this morning before getting called in to work. I’m using LC LR brass, Fed 210 primer, 168gr Speer Gold Dots, and TAC powder. Bullets are seated to 2.800”.
JTD
Didn’t do any reloading but thought I had a buyer for a set of dies that I have so I disassembled and cleaned them up. This is a pretty old set I have and they were caked in old grease/lube from its last life of being used. Hoping to get out to shoot tomorrow and then do some more loading in the afternoon. Have a great weekend folks!
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