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Tribfisher,

Presuming that you grandfather's rifle is in sound condition, a load of 14 grains of H4195 & using your current 170 grain bullet should equal that old-school factory load of the WWI...

NICE. = Ought to be FINE for bunnies & bushytails.

yours, tex

skeettx,

WELL SAID. = When I took my II-B Hirsch (RED DEER) in Germany long ago, my forstmeister insisted that we wait a 1/2 hour (seemed like a HALF-YEAR to me) for him to bleed out. = He stopped...

John McCorkle,

Exactly what I wondered when I read that. = When I as single & had a house in rural NE Texas, my local friends in the PD, SD & I used to shoot .22, .32 & .38 "target loads" down the...

brewer12345,

Fwiw, MANY a mulie/elk was taken in the 20th Century with a .22 Savage HP, .25-35WCF, .38-40, .44-40, .303 Savage or the .32-40WCF. = None of those rounds is a "powerhouse". ...

Minerat,

EXACTLY. = That is what the Armed Forces calls "battle-sight zero" & it provides GOOD "practical hunting accuracy" likely out to 300M..

yours, tex

WayneSmith,

At the time that I posted the comment, there was a message on the page but NO picture of anything, unless you count: We missed one..

yours, tex

peter72,

LOOKS FINE. = CONGRADS.

yours, tex

An Army surplus heavy-duty canvas mechanics tool bag, for which I paid 2 bucks at a local gun-show. = NOT pretty but works fine as it is very STURDY.

yours, tex

To All,

Fwiw, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol & OSBI years ago used a 220grain LHP at about 800FPS out of their .357MAG S&W 4" Model 28 revolvers, which they described as "very effective".

yours,...

Char-Gar,

Fyi, the British, due to a pre-war shortage of firearms, received/used a lot of BOTH .38 S&W & .38 SPL Colt's & S&W revolvers, under Lend-Lease. = SOME were US Armed Forces revolvers...

To All,

Some 10-12 years ago, I encountered a Deputy Constable from Tyler, TX who was armed with a S&W Model 64HB, which was loaded with what he called "barrel bullets", i.e., what looked like a...

Chill Wills,

The old-school 200 grain lead boolit at >750FPS is definitely A KILLER.
(When I was a young deputy with the SD, that was the standard load that was issued to our street deputies for...

ShooterAZ,

It's hard to find a better load than yours for general use with Garand rifles..

Fwiw, I use NOTHING but Lake City once-fired cases (that I get FREE from a local Garand match shooter)...

starnbar,

Frankly, I'm surprised that the Armed Forces haven't pulled some out of depot storage & issued them to skilled marksmen for service in the mountains of Afghanistan.
(The M4 is nearly...

georgerkahn,

SORRY that I wasn't clear. = I was asking "osteodoc08" for his "pet" load that is "softer recoiling & still full functioning" & preferably a GCCB load.
(My JHP hunting load is a...

osteodoc08,

Would you care to share your "pet load" that functions the Garand action??

yours, tex

Char-Gar,

I feel your pain. = The SAME happened to me when my first wife & I "split the sheets" in 1979. - She got my REAL Colt's Walker & promptly sold it "for peanuts".

yours, tex

georgerkahn,

CONGRADS. = LOOKS A-OK to me. - Be sure to report on how she shoots!!!!

IF that Winchester was MINE, I would go to a show & swap out the CMP wood for the proper GI & all the other...

Tatume,

For "good quality", domestically produced .38 S&W revolvers, I'm sure that you're 100% correct but that is NOT so for some overseas revolvers in the .38 S&W caliber. = New WWII Enfield...

Char-Gar,

YEP. = In my college days/DAZE, I was employed as THE railroad detective for an industrial "short line" & routinely carried a WWII-era S&W Terrier as a sidearm.
That 200 grain...

Tatume,

What is "specified" is often WRONG, especially in older firearms.

yours, tex

38splpete,

In my experience, ANY hollow-base OR "cup-base" lead boolit that works for .38SPL will work FINE in the .38 S&W, as that hollow or "cupped" base spreads out to fill the barrel quite...

peter72,

Inasmuch as Husky never made BP-only firearms after the turn of the 20th Century. I wouldn't worry over much about the safety of the firearm (presuming that it's tight & otherwise in...

peter72,

ONCE MORE, you NEED a chamber cast to see what EXACTLY that the caliber actually IS. = MANY older/antique firearms were rebored/rechambered in the pre-WWI & post-WWI era.

Btw, because...