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So, last weekend I was doing a quick test to see how close my 2 batches of brass would be. I got different numbers and was concerned. I forgot something! In the middle I ran out of one sleeve of primers and grabbed several from another sleeve! I think that is the main cause. This led me down a rabbit hole of lot numbers. I learned how the CCI lot numbers are coded. So, I sorted all my primers by the year and month they were produced on. Then I decided to test 3 lots that I have either 2,000 or 3,000 of the same to see what would give the most consistent results. These were all produced at the end of 2023, but I think the last ones I used were from January and June of 2023. I believe that the different months gave me some larger than typical results. I am seeing after this test that these produced in the same quarter are much, much closer. I think my best bet is the ones made in December, so that is what I will work with from here on out. At least through the remainder of this barrel and my next one! Now, the big question. Is the 5-12 fps difference between lot 1 and lot 2 of my brass that I am consistently seeing something to be concerned with? Should I lower the powder in the faster lot to see if it will match the other? Maybe keep them separate, but still be able to use the same Kestel data. I don't know, please let me know if you have a good idea! My other big concern. It seems that between last weekend and the weekend before last, my windage shifted! It seems to be a very consistent shift to the left. Nothing appears to be loose. And each group looks to be the exact same movement to the left. Is this just a change in my loading? Something caused by the new lots of primers? Or maybe using a different rear bag? I was shooting at dusk/sundown, so maybe I was not as lined up as I thought I was. Just seems odd it would not shift around after getting off the rifle and back down between groups if that was the cause. Let me know what you think! I gotta figure it out this weekend. Match is weekend after on the 29th!! Let me know what you think. Remember to double check your load data if you change primer lot numbers! Some things may very well be different!! Thank you for watching and hanging out for a few. I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

This is a fun video. But WOW, am I feeling the pain! I had some questions about my Stoeger M3K and I decided it was time for another range trip with it! Someone wanted to know a few things about it, mainly how it would run 3 inch magnum shells. So, I realized I have not taken in out in a very long time and jumped at the chance to make another video with it! I do have this set up more with competition in mind, so I have the lower powered Federal 1145 shells tuned for mine. I have a weighed action bar and lighter recoil spring from MOA Precision installed. It makes it more reliable with the lighter recoiling 1145s. The downside is the more full power shells have a harder kick to them! As you can see from this, I got tossed around a good bit more than usual. It was still a lot of fun! A great reminder to not be too focused on one thing and get out more of a variety and just have some fun days on the range from time to time. I got to smash some clays, hand throw some in the air, and run my Texas Star a little bit. Plus, I made some funny faces, so that is always a good time!! I hope you had a good time seeing my pain in this video. Make sure and subscribe and leave a like and comment! Really helps me out and I greatly appreciate it! Have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

This week I decided I needed to fine tune my process. I got way too much lube last week when I first used the new Alpha Munitions Case Lube. It sprayed out quite heavily and I got a lot inside my cases. It was a long process to get it cleaned out. I am looking to save time where I can. So, this week I apply much less by hand and just get a light coating on my cases. As you are able to see, it works just as well with very little and the ram moves very smooth on my press! I also decided to test not lubing inside the necks when using the Cortina mandrel die. This seems like it will work. It does require a little more effort, but for me, the lack of lube inside my cases are worth the extra effort. I need to save time wherever possible. By doing this, I will be able to size and mandrel my brass, then drop in some rice and tumble the lube off. Leaving me with some very good brass ready to load up and see how it works! I also wanted to get a quick tuner test in this weekend. So, after my sizing work I just wiped these cases off with a paper town and loaded them up. I wanted to test 3 groups of 5 shots at different settings on my tuner. I think this little, quick test showed me that one setting is quite better than the others I tried. Now, let me know! Do I just run it with what I found here, or should I keep going and test it further to see if I can get even better? I think I am good to stop messing with working this load up and I should get on to working the physical skills, but please let me know what you would do. I really need to get my skills honed down and be ready for the start of this season, so I want to get back to pushing myself and getting the PRS skills down better. I think my ammo is plenty good now. I need to work the skills that will make a bigger difference in a match. I need to get my movement speed up faster and my ability to settle into a position quickly. I plan to work that the next several weekend. I hope you liked seeing me cut my lube usage down to a minimum, save time in the loading process and have some good luck with my tuner. Let me know what you think!! Thank you for spending some time with me. I really appreciate everyone who watches. I hope you have a great day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

This week I got to size and test my new Alpha brass. I was curious to find out if the two lot numbers I have would give different results. Each 10 shot group was within 5 fps on my average speed, so I think they are close enough to not worry about mixing the lots! That is great for me. I will do some more testing as I go, but I think for Alpha it is not going to be a concern! Very good news. I got the Cortina mandrel die. This is my first time to use a mandrel. It does seem to give more consistent numbers. I think my tension may be a little tighter than the new brass, because using the same powder charge I got about 15-20 fps faster speeds. I am assuming that is a tighter grip on the projectile so it built a little more pressure. I may test another few at a tenth less powder. I want to have my speeds right under 3000 and I am currently right at 3000. Trying to not burn my barrel if I can help it! The new Alpha case lube is great. It is a little thicker than I was expecting and I got too much on my first few. I think that bumped my shoulders a little more than I wanted, but it all worked just fine. This is a very good product. The easiest sizing I have done so far in my reloading journey. The press moved so smoothly with very little effort! I just need to find the sweet spot of just enough lube to do the job and not over that amount to build up in the die and press my shoulder a little. More testing to come, but I think instead of spraying it, I will just put a little on my fingers and apply by hand. It is harder to get off with my rice cleaning process. I had rice stuck inside the cases. I ended up washing them with water and that did the job. This is probably better used with a wet tumbler to clean after sizing! Something to be aware of! I think this first test went well. My numbers are pretty good. I just need to drop a little on my speed and I should be where I want to be for this season! Let me know what you think!! Thank you for watching me go through this process and share what I am doing with you. I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, I wanted to do a little more testing and see if I could find that super great powder charge. I think all I did was prove that I have a large range that seem to perform really well! Is this Alpha brass just that good? Or am I getting better and my whole setup is giving me excellent results? I really thought these tests would give me a clear answer on powder weight. Or, at least point out some that I can scratch from the list. I am sure that now I need to size, mandrel and load up some and see if anything changes after that. I think there is a chance that some numbers will shift around. Hoping with the mandrel die added to my bench that my SD and ES numbers will shrink a little. At the minimum, I hope to get rid of that 1 or 2 every 10 that seem to jump a little outside the range of the majority. I show how some of these necks are not "perfect" out of the new box. I think that may be part of the few higher or lower numbers. Just not sealing and releasing as consistently. The mandrel should solve this issue. We will see next week!! I am starting the process this week getting deprimed, annealed and then ready to size over my weekend. Please let me know what you think! Is it normal to have like a whole grain range that gives good numbers and groups on target? Or, did I just get lucky here, lol. Thank you for watching and spending some time here. I hope you have had a great day, and have yourself an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, I thought I would take the time before the PRS season starts up again to see if I can find an even better powder charge for my new Alpha brass. I loaded up another 3 charges and tried some 10 shot groups with them. Numbers are pretty good. This is still new, unfired brass. So this is also my fireforming shots. I am thinking I will probably need to do a little fine tuning after I process this all. Anneal, size, mandrel. My Lapua loads had changed a little after that. I'm not sure if it was because the brass was processed and changed slightly, or was it just my barrel needing to be cleaned, lol. I have more testing to do, I think. But, I would like your thoughts! Am I wasting my time with these tests? I still want to get all my 200 pieces of brass fired so I can make them all the same through my process. I don't know if I should do a few more powder charge tests, or just call it good and pick one of these. It seems to me, all of my groups at 39.1, 39.2, 39.3 and 39.4 grains are making plenty acceptable groups on target for my PRS needs. The speeds are slightly different, but not up to the same as my Lapua load at 39.2 yet either. I am still new, so any input and thoughts on this would be appreciated! I want to get a good, dependable loading figured out in the next few weeks so I can make up a lot of rounds to be ready for the first 2 matches when they start back up in September! I still have a few weeks to get ready, but I am trying to get a little ahead of the crunch time. I can keep going up and see when I hit 3000 fps, I notice that over 3000 my groups open up a lot. But staying just under seems to work well for my barrel. I kinda want to keep going until I find the charge that gets me at 2990fps, so I may need to just keep going and find it. Or, I could be wasting my time. Please let me know what you think!! I appreciate you watching and any input you have to share with me!! Thank you for spending some time with me, and have a great day and an awesome weekend! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

So, just how hard was it for the good guys in Butler, PA? Well, I thought I would use my space at my range and test some ideas to see just how hard was it for the counter team in Butler, PA to end the situation. As I show here, not really that hard! At least, not with good equipment and some practice time!! I have not been able to find a definite answer that I trust on the actual position the person who ended the threat was, so I'm going with the idea it was the 2nd team not shown in the famous pictures on the further barn roof. I estimate about 150-160 yards. So, I took my PRS rifle out that is chambered in 6 Creedmoor and verified zero with my previous match ammo. Then went out the next day and started at 100 yards, no problem. Then tried that 150ish range, right through the scope!! Decided that was too easy, so I jumped back to 300 yards and got right through the scope again! Ok, too easy. So, I went back to 500 yards! At this point, it was 20 minutes after sundown and I was losing light. My target was barely visible, so I took 2 shots. Chin and upper chest/lungs. So, in my opinion, and at least with me on the trigger, this was in no way a difficult shot. The story about the Secret Service team taking a "one in a million" shot to end the situation is total bunk. I practice for PRS matches, so I'm not a tactical shooter, but my skills are better served doing something like this. I think a sub-200 yard shot was like a 13 inch put at the golf course. Or hitting a baseball off a t-ball stand, lol. I appreciate that the counter team put an end to the situation, but I think I have shown that it was not that much of a "highly skilled, trained professional" type of shot!! Let me know what else you want me to try with this target! I have a few more ideas and want to try further with my Triggercam set up and charged to get more footage of what I'm seeing and show it to you all. Also, I can try with my AR at about 130 yards and see how many hits I can get on target. That might be a fun video. I just need to get out there before the sun goes down!! Thank you for watching. I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, I was wanting to show some way visually to prove that the conspiracy that Trump was not actually hit in the ear by a bullet because it would have damaged his brain from the shockwaves wrong, but my camera gear is not advanced enough to slow down the footage! My idea was to show that if a bullet passes near an object down range, it will not impart some radical force upon it just by the "shockwaves". I wanted to miss very closely to some water balloons and some soap bubbles, but it got too dark to see the bubbles. Plus, it was very windy and the bubbles blew away instead of rising up, lol. It was a race against the sun this day and I think the sun won this week. I also wanted to show how cheaper, bulk ammo is just not nearly as accurate as high end stuff. Most of you have seen my PRS videos and I think I have proven that I can shoot a small, tight group with my PRS rifle. This rifle is not nearly as precise and the Monarch cheap ammo is nowhere near to the level that my 6 Creedmoor hand loaded match ammo is. I think the example provided can at least prove that there is no way Trump getting hit in the ear was on purpose or planned. It was truly a miracle that he was only nicked through the cartilage of his ear!! It was far more likely to have missed by 6 inches or go right into his skull than for it to have been planned to put a hole in his ear. Well, if someone with better cameras than can slow down footage significantly more than I'm able wants to take this idea and show how a .223 passing near a delicate object is not going to disrupt it greatly, feel free! Someday, if I ever get some high speed cameras, I will try this again and use my PRS rifle that I know I can put a bullet exactly where I want. I had a few shots here I tried to get too close and went ahead and popped the balloons, lol. This is a fail of concept video on my end, but I had fun trying to make it! Next week, I will do something fun from the counter side of this situation and that I will use my PRS rifle for. Let's see how far I can get before it takes more than one shot to dispatch the evil doer!! Thank you for hanging out for a bit, I hope you had a good time! Come back next week and let's see how I do on that side of things! Have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, after over a year of waiting, I finally got the rifle case that I wanted! The Savior Equipment Specialist LRP Rifle Case! This thing is pretty slick for a heavy rifle like my PRS build. My current bag for the last year was their American Classic. It did the job well enough, but there are a few things that were bugging me. I don't like the shoulder straps very much and the rifle is kinda loose inside. It gets it to the range and back, but I was really wanting something better for what I am doing. This Specialist LRP has more purpose built sections. I can lock my rifle in place much better with the variety of strap points provided. The shoulder straps are much more like a quality backpack, so it is not as loose while on my back. The extra pockets are very large, plenty of space for the small things that I want to take to the range and keep with my rifle when going from stage to stage at a match. Of course, I got this after the last match of the season, so I will get to tinker and set this up a little more before the next match. I will get it dialed in how I like. I think I am going to add some velcro hook pouches into the large outer pocket so I can move things around as I want and keep things from sliding around. The 2 that come with it are great, but not available separately at this time. I already asked, lol. Maybe some day!! They are pretty neat. I'd buy several more for mags, small tools, cleaning stuff, etc. I will find some Amazon specials for the time being. Let me know what you think. I hope this will be the bag that goes with me from now on for my PRS journey! Thanks for watching, I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, the final match of my local group's 2023-2024 PRS season is over. I managed to finish in 5th overall out of I believe 11. Just a few hits behind 4th, but I am happy with this result. The higher skilled guys that always beat me by a lot were there and swept the top 3 spots. So, considering that I am very pleased with my finish. There were a few stages I wish I did a little better on. One was a communication error and that cost me some time. I didn't know what to do, so I lost probably half the stage time waiting for confirmation I got the last hit. Reviewing this footage in the scope cam, I can clearly see that I got the hit I thought I did. But, it was not called and you had to hit to move to next target. Another thing I need to learn! What to do in that situation!! A few stages I had incorrect wind on, but I was able to correct after a few misses. That is one thing I am most proud of myself for. Finally correcting during a stage instead of just missing all the way through! I tried to show as much as I could with the scope cam views. I hope you like the extra footage. Let me know if you like this and I will be using this more in future videos! I thank you all for going on this journey with me for my first year of trying PRS. It is so much harder than pistol matches! I am sticking with this for a while, so any tips you have and want to share with me, I will be happy to hear them down in the comments. I hope you have a great rest of your day and awesome weekend. Thanks for spending a little time with me here! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

So, I figured since I just cleaned my barrel pretty well, I should use this time to start my testing on this Alpha brass. Here is my first testing with the Alpha Munitions Brass in 6 Creedmoor. I loaded up a few and did an initial test with 1 charge giving some great numbers for a 5 round group. I loaded up more of that charge and a higher charge to test further. I'll admit, my second test was not as awesome as the first one. But, for doing what I need it should still be plenty good for my match. I've decided since my time is rather limited before my last match, I am going to run this and see what happens. Maybe now if I have a bad score, I can blame it on fire forming this brass during the match instead of me just doing bad, lol. I am getting some good groups with this, but I want to get a little more speed and see if another charge will have more consistency. I will be crunched on time, so I am going to run with the charge I have here in the match. If I had another day or two to test more, I might be able to find my final load. I think a .5 MOA group size should be plenty good for PRS though. I can admit that my rifle can still shoot better than me, so let's see how this goes! Looking forward to this last match and then getting into more testing with this after. I hope to do well this match and if this better quality brass can help me do that, then I will take any help I can find!! Thanks for watching! I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

So, this is just for fun. But, after the debate last week, I thought it might be fun to poke a little fun. I know that not everyone likes Trump, but I think for this year that is the best option we are going to have. I'd like to see him go for another term and do what he can to help steer the country back in the direction we were going before the big flu season hit us all. I hope the attempts at jokes land here. I just wanted to do something fun and try to make some people laugh. I think my attempt at what Biden would do on my range is actually pretty close, lol. I don't know where the voices came from. Somehow, halfway through filming this I started doing my Trump lines with a country accent. I just rolled with it. Seemed funny in my head when I was doing it, lol. This was just to show off a few things that I have not taken out to shoot for a while. Spending all my time with the bolt action getting into PRS made me miss some of these. I wanted to get in a little range time and have fun!! Thank you for watching. I hope you got to laugh a little. If not at the jokes, at least at me!! I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

This is how I celebrate the 4th of July out on my range, the Freedom Farm! This is a perfect example of why I named my range what I did. It is literally in the middle of a farm, surrounded on all sides by land that my dad grows crops on. Mostly wheat and alfalfa for hay. In the middle of the section a creek winds around. So I cleared some paths and made some places in the trees to set up a lot of targets. Hence, the Freedom Farm!! I tried to pick up some fun things from the fireworks stand for this. I wanted to show off a few different types and I think we have some good variety here. I was not expecting the parachute thing to be so hard to chase down. At least you can laugh at me failing to catch the falling object, lol. I did try to find them, but they were at the top of the trees and I was not trying to climb those trees without anyone there in case I fell and broke a leg!! I hope you enjoy this little celebration of the day we recognize as the day our country started it's official journey! July 4th is a great day to be thankful that you get to live here. We are the greatest in the world. Let's all remember that through the other 364 days each year! As we have seen over the past year, when enough of us come together and work to a common goal, we can make some changes!! Let's keep it going strong! Thank you for watching. I appreciate your time! Have a great rest of your day and enjoy the long weekend if you get to have one!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

So, after cleaning my barrel, the next step is fouling it! Always seemed odd to me that I have to spend a lot of time and effort to get my barrel cleaned, just to have to foul it up again to get it shooting well, lol!! This past weekend, I got out and fouled my barrel and tested my remaining personal loads. After a few shots, the speeds stabilized and I was getting some good ES and SD numbers!! I did find that when in prone, I am having some issues with my glasses. I do need to wear glasses to see things clearly farther away. For some reason, when down behind the scope in a prone position, I get a weird shadow and it is difficult to keep a precise aiming point. Something to work on fixing in the next weekends. Hopefully before the last match! Well, next up I will be loading up my ammo again. May try some different powder charges to see if I can get dialed in with this cleaner barrel!! I think I need a small tweak to get dialed back in like I was before! Always some more work to do in this process! I like it, but it's almost another full time job on top of my full time job, lol. Thanks for watching and spending some time with me! I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! Get out there and enjoy your freedoms!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Is this second attempt to clean my barrel going to work better? So, after that first attempt to clean my barrel turned out not so great, I did some more research and decided to try again. I got some new products to try and a better process in mind. First, thank you to all the people who gave me some tips! I ordered the products suggested and I can say that one of them worked really well!! If you see anything else I need to do better, please let me know. I think a few more times going through this process will really shine up the inside of my barrel!! I got some ThorroClean, Iosso bore cleaning paste, and Chameleon Gel. Also picked up some brass brushes, but I actually did not even use them this time. That might be what is going to be needed to get the last of the carbon out of the start of my barrel, right past the chamber. I still have a few black lines there for a few inches, but the rest of the way down I think it looks pretty good! Please let me know what you think. Is this good enough or do I need to go further and remove anything and everything that is black or copper colored? I know that a few shots are going to foul it again, so I figured this was good enough. But please, let me know what you think! Thank you for watching this, and thank you again to all the great commenters on the last video! The help is greatly appreciated by me! I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Got a fun one this week to share! Let's see how much a watermelon will slow down bullets!! I wanted to do this before it got too hot here and would melt my gel sitting in the 112 degree Oklahoma sun in the summer. I got lucky this Sunday with a cooler afternoon and picked up a few watermelons to test the theory. I used 9mm, .223, and my 6 Creedmoor. After this, I can confirm that the watermelon slows down quite a bit!! After hitting the gel after passing through the watermelon, the bullets were caught in the gel. When shot with no obstruction, the 9mm, .223 and 6CM just zipped all the way through both of my 16 inch gel blocks!! The point of this was to try and show a practical example of how much energy gets dumped into the first object that is hit by a projectile. Even through it made it through the watermelons, it was slowed down a lot as they entered the gel. This was pretty fun. A lot of work setting things up and trying to catch all the action with my gear. I hope you enjoy seeing this example! Check the slow motion of the 6CM with no watermelon. I caught the explosion that occurs inside the gel. It was pretty neat to see that from something I did. Very big, violent cavity is opened up and I think as the gel slams closed it compresses and ignited the oxygen trapped inside and makes it explode! Awesome!! I hope you had a good time watching this. Let me know if you have some other gel block ideas, and I will get to work to make them happen!! First, I need to clean this up and remold these blocks, lol. They are nasty now with watermelon guts inside, lol. Thank you for your time. I hope you have a great weekend!!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, let this be a cautionary tale to anyone new out there! Listen to the Erik Cortina videos about cleaning your barrel!! I think I waited too long and I am going to have to do some more work after this video to get back to a good, clean barrel. I have been going for a year now without doing a stripped down, deep clean. I was thinking the typical, just shoot until the groups open up and then it's time to clean. Well, I have still been doing well with my groups, but I had a lot of rain and I thought it'd be a good time to finally try and clean. As you can see, I have a lot of bad stuff worked into the barrel. I tried what I could with the products I have on hand and some nylon brushes. After seeing the results after a few rounds of brushing, I am looking at the more heavy duty products. I will appreciate any tips or suggestions. I'm trying to stay away from the CLR process, but I do have some if nothing else seems to do the job. I think I will get some Iosso paste and particularly some bronze brushes to scrub in the grooves harder than the nylon is doing. Stay tuned, there will be more to come and I'll let you all know what ends up working to get this build up out of there!! I am posting this to keep everyone updated with what I am doing as I do it. If you were wondering why you never saw a barrel cleaning video, well that is because I have not cleaned my barrel!! O man, this is going to take a lot of work to get done, lol. That is the price I must pay for putting this off for so long. The lesson here is, don't do this, clean much earlier and more often! It will be much easier in the long run and you won't have to do what I am about to have to do in order to get this job done right. Thanks for watching and let me have it in the comments. I do know I messed up though. I thank you for watching and letting me know any tips you have for tackling this issue!! Have a great day and awesome weekend! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

So yeah, that last match was bad for me! I am determined to find the cause of my terrible performance. I had a few ideas and wanted to get in and test them out. I thought I would take you along as I go through a few things I believe could have been the issue. I tested my zero. It appears that it is still plenty close enough for PRS targets. I don't think anything is wrong there. Move on to testing my binos and Kestrel. I did notice that my binos were giving a different degree than my Kestrel. Some directions are off 30 to 40 degrees, some are right on. Very weird. Once I realized this, I thought it might be the problem. But, after testing here, I am not seeing the windage be off enough to have put me off target. So, even though the numbers are off at times, I don't think that is all of the problem. I do believe that I either just had a bad match, or I was making some bad wind calls. I feel like I was doing my part well, so I am hoping it was just bad wind readings. Most of my misses seemed to be off the side, so I think I was overcompensating for the wind and pushing my rounds off the edge and not getting very many impacts. I freely admit that reading and performing in the wind is my weakest point right now. I am getting confident with everything else, but the wind still is beating me down. Of course, that is the hardest to learn. I will double down on learning the wind better. I want to be able to feel and hear the changes in the wind and know how to correct for that while I'm down on the rifle in the middle of a stage. I also need to learn better how it behaves when there are terrain changes. Sometimes we are shooting from an elevated position and the targets are down in valleys where maybe the wind is behaving differently. Always more to learn and I will share it all with you! Let me know if you have any good drills or tips to get a better handle on the wind!! Thanks for watching. I appreciate your time. I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, it finally happened. This last weekend's match was terrible for me! It was pretty much a full on NRL Hunter match instead of a PRS match. I've spent my time trying to learn the skills to do well at PRS and the NRL Hunter stuff is very different. The conditions were brutal also. Wind all day, starting in the 7-10 range building to 12-15 and a few stages with 18-23 mph winds!! Plus, it was already over 90 degrees! Factor in moving from stage to stage with all my gear, carrying it through the stages, then moving to the next, I was well exhausted by the end of this. My rifle and gear is probably around 30-35 pounds that I would carry each stage. My rifle is designed for PRS, not going hunting, lol. I am about double the weight of what most people use when they are serious about doing NRL Hunter matches. That worked against me a bit, but mostly I think my problem was data collection and utilization! I was missing way more shots that I should have. After a few stages, I started trying to lock in the wind direction manually like I do in PRS and have had good luck with that. I forgot that when I range with my binos that it also sends the target direction and somewhere in those numbers, things were off I am guessing. The only stage I could see misses on, I think I was overcorrecting and then not coming back properly to get on target. I was defeated with a few stages of Zero hits! That mentally has me down. I show off a little example here of how one of the stages would be run. Start carrying everything you'll be using, move forward to the ranging position and scan between a left and right mark to find the targets for that stage. Then range and get your data (hopefully correct, lol), then move forward to the firing position and engage the targets. What I would do is get my wind reading, then drop my Kestrel into a pouch and not look at it again during the stage. I never noticed that the target direction was likely off at least 90 degrees! I noticed that after filming this mock stage at my place. I went to see if I could figure out why I was missing the same shots I was hitting before the match. I realized that the target direction was off considerably. I am pretty sure that at some point early in the day my binos lost calibration and I never realized it. I just figured I was having a terrible day and not doing very well. After I manually corrected that error I noticed, the numbers were different and I tested them. All hits after that! So, I am pretty sure that was my problem. But, I will do some more testing on that theory this weekend. We have 1 more match to go in a few weeks for this series! It should be a more normal PRS type match, so I'm hoping to end the season well and get back some confidence that I just lost after this one!! Then, on to try my hand at some of the more pro level matches!! Thanks for your time. If you have any ideas, please leave a comment and let me know what to check. I need to identify and correct the problem. I will look into a few more things and find the error and share with you all what it was and how I fix it! I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, I had to change a few plans. Instead of getting to my range to work on some things Sunday, I got rained out and was able to start my brass prep. I wanted to show the steps I go through and take you along with the process that has been working well for me so far. Lots of work goes into this, but my results have been great so I think this is working well for me! If you want to know more about anything, please let me know and I'll be happy to share more details if I can. I enjoy this quite a bit. Taking individual components and turning them into something that performs very good and gets hits on targets!! Best feeling in the world! I also show a little more detail about the rice cleaning brass process. I timed it and show the results at about 30 minutes, 3 hours, and then overnight at 16ish hours total. I think, if you are just wanting a decent shine, but good cleaning, 2 to 3 hours should do a pretty great job! Let me know if you want a more detailed look at this process and smaller time intervals. I also was able to make it to my place Monday afternoon to work on my match flow for this Sunday. I think I can make this work for the stages they have planned. As long as my Kestrel and Vortex Fury binos stay linked, I can get the data displayed inside my binos and write it down real fast and get on my rifle and start engaging targets! I have a process down now to link the binos to the Kestrel right before I go up to start the stage. I think it will keep the connection while I range the targets, get my data, then I am done with them for the stage. I found out the stages will be either: 1 position, 4 targets 2 positions, 2 targets 4 positions, 1 target Knowing this, I think I should be able to get through the new stuff in this match. If I get first shot hits, I get 2 points and can move on to next target. 2nd shot is worth 1 point, then move on. Wish me luck and stay tuned next week to find out how I did here!! Thanks for watching and have yourself a great day and awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, I decided to add the new Double Alpha PrimeVibe primer tube filler to my bench tools. It is supposed to be a quick, easy way to fill your primer tubes! I am always looking for things to make tasks more hands free or automated so I can multi-task better. This is actually going to work well for that! It is really easy to get set up and running. Once it is all set, I can dump in a pack of primers and turn it on, then leave it to run while I do something else for a few minutes and come back to a full tube of primers that I can start using on CPS! For me, this is great. It is a totally not necessary tool to have on your bench, but for someone like me, it is just what I wanted. I had tried their VibraPrime handheld vibratory tube filler. It was a little more finicky with the Primal Rights tubes I have to use. Maybe I just didn't give it enough of a chance, but with the PrimeVibe, I can do the whole process hands-free and that works better for my work flow! Let me know if you have any questions about this. I'll be happy to answer all that I can! Thanks for watching and I hope you have a great day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Let's look at the difference in bags! I can show how they perform on target now! I finally got myself a Triggercam 2.1! This will allow me to show everyone better what I'm seeing through my scope. I wanted to show how the last match was giving me problems with my bag choice. So, I get the cam set up and installed on my scope. Then I show off 4 bags and how it looks on a target at about 500 yards and 740 yards. The first is what I used in my match. You can see how it moves around off target too easily and when running the bolt, it's all over the place!! Takes a few extra seconds to get back on target. Next, I show a Shmedium Game Changer, then an OG with a lighter fill, and a Pint size Game Changer. These really are the best bags for resting your rifle on to get stable on a prop or barricade. It's quite impressive how much better these work! I think I may take some more fill from my first bag and see if that will take some of the roundness out of it. Try to allow it to flow better and plop down and get more stable. Let me know what else you want to see looking through my scope! Next, I will try to show how rear bags help and different ones affect how stable your reticle is on target. But, I'm happy to try and show off anything else you want to see. Just let me know in the comments! Thanks for watching! Have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

This video I wanted to show off and share this PRS Skills Stage Barricade Wall that I built. As I have been talking about in several of my videos, my weakest point right now is during the positional stages. I'm still not great at getting set up quickly and having a solid, stable position to engage targets from. I need to work on this the most currently. I found this in the PRS rulebook they call a Skills Stage. It sounds like most ranges will have a wall like this and run one of three stages from it. I figure if I can get better at doing things like this, I will be able to move up a bit more in my finishes!! The idea is that all the ranges will have one stage that is the same no matter where the range is. Some places have mostly positional stages, others are mostly prone with a few positional. By having a consistent stage, there will always be one stage that competitors can gauge their performance on a set, predictable metric. So, as me and my dad were building this, I burned my face, lol. I tried to be helpful while he was welding, so I got some eclipse glasses so I could hold the metal in place for him. I didn't think about the bright light coming from it, but the next morning my face was very burned!! It's ok, feel free to laugh at me! Remember to wear the proper safety attire when welding!! I took the weekend off from actually shooting at my range. I know in the long run, having this built will do more for me than one more weekend of trying to practice the same things I've been doing. Now that I have this built, I can set up a few different stages on my place and work on moving from position to position. I will be testing a few more bag options and ways to set up on the barricade in future videos. Make sure you are subscribed so you can see how those test work out!! I'd like to have you join in and follow along as I work on improving these skills!! Thanks for watching what I did here. I hope you have a great day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

Well, this last match was overall pretty good! I got out there and had a really solid start to this PRS match. My first stage went awesome! Got a hit on every shot!! I was pumped. Then, I had a bad stage on the 3rd target, lol. I think my wind call was a little off. Then the 3rd stage, I chose wrong on my bag usage. I explain in the video, but I thought using an attached bag was the smart move. I was much more unstable than I wanted to be. I show off what I should have done. After the match, I did some dry fire practice just working on the prop and learning a better way to move through it with my Game Changer bag. I am starting to finally see why everyone only uses that bag. It really is awesome and can do just about everything. I just need to get better at moving positions with it. I am learning all the time and next time, I will be better at this!! The 4th and 5th stages all went really great. Overall, I ended up 4th. I was only behind 1st by 10 total hits!! If I did a little better on that 2nd or 3rd stage, I would have ended up 3rd and maybe could have been 2nd. But, just means there is still more to work on and improve. At least I am at the point that I can see more quickly what I do wrong and figure out the best way to correct those errors!! Thanks for watching. I really appreciate your time. I hope you have a great rest of your day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly

So, I figured with the eclipse happening, I was going to have a chance to test something that seldom comes around. Everyone was talking about being prepared, getting extra supplies and gas, having another form of communication ready just in case things went bad. Well, that gave me the idea to see if my pistols were going to work during an eclipse!! In my area, we were only about 90%, so it never got dark. It did cool down quite noticeably. That was pretty neat to experience while outside. I didn't manage to find any eclipse glasses in time, but it was obvious that it was not getting dark at my place. Was hoping to show off some light work, but that did not happen. Either way, after testing I can say that your pistols should be eclipse-proof!! I had no problems from 22LR to 9mm. Even managed to hit some farther away steel targets!! This was a fun time at the range in between the work I'm doing getting ready for my PRS match this Sunday. I hope you liked spending some time with me at my range having a fun time. The Freedom Farm is the best place to be!! Thank you for watching. Leave a comment and let me know what you want to see next from me! Have a great day and an awesome weekend!! This is a private range. All shooting is done in a safe, controlled environment with no people or dwellings within miles to be at risk. Help support my efforts: Score some of the best tasting coffee here from Coffee Brand Coffee: This link will save you 10% and help the channel. Code is: CK2A https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=dC8omF4z6GXzwI Direct Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChadKelly