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When it comes to .30 cal mid capacity cases with 160 to 220 grain bullets, IMR-3031 is the goto in my powder-magazine. The 30-30, 300 Savage, 303 British and 30-40 Krag I shoot all perform accurately...

The M91/24 Italian Carcano carbines weren't merely cut down long rifles. The folks at Italian Ordnance were fully aware of the accuracy and bullet stability problems they would create if they just...

Huvius,

All the design work's done, the barrel and reamers are built... I decided to test it in a Greener Martini first to wring the bugs out of this late 19th century wildcat on a known stable...

If you would like to see a sweet example of an Alex Henry 20/577 double rifle built as a 12 bore in 1868, then re-barrelled to 20/577 in 1900 click here . In any case these big bottlenecks were...

Largest bottleneck, huh... for starters there was the 'scaling up' of the Westley Richards 500/450 #1... introduced by Alexander Henry in 1871, it was built on a drawn 2 3/4 inch 20ga. case... the...

Moto,

This is the same method I used years ago to ream a .457 Rapine grease groove mould to a .457 slick sided PP Boolit mould with delaminating ridge for my 577-450 MH... But... no matter the...

Here are a couple of pics showing the neck sized and rim trimmed 30-30 case ready for fire forming to .225 Winchester...

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Frank,

The wood on your little High Wall ain't too shabby itself...

You will like that H-414 load, it's fairly easy on the brass. I use it for both 52 and 55 grain boat tails. I use a medium...

The smaller capacity .222 would likely be the best choice for cast bullets... but for jacketed slugs you can't beat the .225 Winchester.

I like the rimmed .225 Winny 'cause it works really well in...

In their e-catalog, Poppert's doesn't even list the Krag anymore... Numrich, e-gunparts.com lists bolts for the Norwegian, and bolt sleeves for the Danish Krag... nothing for the US Krag.

If you...

Townson Whelen spoke affectionately of his armory built 30-40, and there were no doubt many others like it crafted at the armory in the days just after the Krags were decommissioned. Still others...

There is no doubt that virtually all US Krags with original barrels whether fitted with new bolts or were among those to have properly treated bolts from the onset, if they have reached a point close...

This is likely the "stretch" fitting I mentioned in my last post which would happen if a properly hardened Krag bolt and receiver was subjected to hot loads early on.

However, like Multigunner...

This is exactly what happened in most cases, brittle bolts would crack, the softer ones would stretch a bit. In effect this would actually strengthen the action by a kind of rudimentary timing of the...

It's curious to see how this technology has finally come full circle.

Without batting an eye, Holland & Holland snatched up the patented Fosbery system in the late 19th century and gave it the...