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Thank you Mike. It was a great visit with an old friend. As a plus I got to see family in Wisconsin on the way to/from, and that was special as it’s close to the year anniversary of losing Mom.

Chris,
That’s a beautiful rifle and beautiful deer. I really enjoyed you sharing the story about load development and getting the deer. It prompted me to research Watsons. Please keep us updated on the work to develop a LRN load.

Larry

CJF,
Sorry about your Mom.
Mike

Thank you Mike and Larry. It was a good trip, and great catching up with friends and family. I appreciate your kind words.

Curious if any of you with a 360EX 2.25" rifle have found it to be sensitive to case trim length.

I had a case fail with a pin prick hole near the base. I checked the length and found it to be 2.31". I wasn't sure if these had been stretching out with repeated firings. Possibly. I trimmed them all back to ~2.25" using cludged equipment (a Lee case trimmer and drill, intended for a different cartridge) and after tediously trimming 26 cases, I thought to measure new Bertram brass...which turned out to be 2.31" long.

I've had good accuracy from two rifles with the long cases, but also had inconsistent velocity. Curious if that will change after trimming.

How much is inconsistent? I wouldn't think 0.06 would make that much difference. If the cases are unequal in length by that much, I guess it's possible but doesn't seem very probable.

I read the whole thread but must have missed your load. If the case fill is short would be more suspicious of case fill than case length causing inconsistent velocities.

Having said that, it IS definitely a lovely rifle!! Congrats on the buck as well!

I'll also second everything that has been said about cast bullets.