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That, and the .303 British example (& Eduard Rubin's experiments that led to it) are possibly something of a guide. I guess we'd have to lay some ground rules as to determining a "practical"...

In this case, it's a pre-64 Model 70 .30-06 but same family.

No issues at all running ball '06 or other spitzers, but the Accurate 31-194D round (ish) nose is giving me some problems.

The load...

Val Kilmer's Lee-Speed from The Ghost & the Darkness is at the top of my "I WANT!" movie gun list.

I can forgive them fabricating Michael Douglas' character as it allowed them to verbalize the...

Typical 6:00 case head blow-outs will direct their force into the magazine. That's probably the cause of the wonky orientation of the following cartridge, which likely pushed on the blown case...

Seems a bit like using a .454 Casull to hunt chipmunks to me. The body of a dove is basically a golf ball. There's going to come a point in your patterning with #6 shot where there are a lot of...

The Leupold 3-9 EFR allows you to dial the parallax out at shorter rimfire ranges if you're into a semi-precision field rifle. . .

I got a lot of good mileage out of a Weaver RV7 2-7x28 for...

I measured bore slugs from perhaps half a dozen 9mm's before concluding .357" is where you want your bullets to be. All but one of them were .356" on groove and the outlier was a Springfield 1911 at...

A pound-cast of your chamber and throat will tell you what you need for both brass length and bullet diameter.

A marked cleaning rod and a tight patch will tell you your rate of twist and what...

The fix indeed pretty much had to be in.

They would have had to pay Remington more money for rolling blocks, and the original intent was to assemble trapdoors out of leftover muzzle-loading...

Welcome! Sounds like you're well on your way.

You might want to revisit your hardness testing methods and confirm the properties of what you're casting your bullets out of. If you indeed are...

I've heat cycled and not heat cycled new molds. It certainly doesn't hurt anything, but I can't say I've seen any difference that enables me to say that it helps. I spray them off with carb and...

A 215 grain HBWC out of a .44 Special is basically cloning the 220 grain .455 Webley MKIV bullet, which is more or less what we've come to think of as an ogival wadcutter. That slug sticks out of...

Unless you're operating in temperature extremes that will kill an insufficiently protected human, so long as you're regularly attentive to the needs of the gun, it really doesn't matter much what you...

+1 on both the powder and bullet choice. I've really come to like Bullseye for this sort of load. Currently running Titegroup in the Special, but pushing 255 grains with it.

Welcome! My .303 geekery is fairly advanced, though I've yet to acquire a jungle carbine. I'll be watching this one to read and learn.

The 314299 and 316299 are both good bullet molds to own to...

Seems like a metaphysical question for handloaders: How many angels can stand on the anvil of a primer while watching powder burn? :veryconfu

I'm guessing the way to test this would be hook a...

Good score! The FA revolvers are about as good a gun as has ever been made.

Unfortunately, Dad lost the ability and I lost the interest in shooting super-duper top-end magnum handguns before we...

As an aging cynic who sees more similarity between cartridges than differences or advantages, I lean toward superior logistics as much as anything.

The 10mm is not an exotic (just a little...

For defensive applications, I think in terms of staying inside of a 4" circle.

For the 9mm subsonic stuff I mostly play with, that works pretty well with a 75 yard zero for holding dead on out to...

This is only a guess. . .

Maybe a precursor to the ".30 Caliber Shortnecks" that he ultimately designed three bullets specifically for the .308, .300 Savage, and 7.62x39? Proportionally, the...

Since the OP is considering both rifle and handgun. . .

The nice thing about a heavy-for-caliber solid is that it behaves very consistently on impact regardless of how fast it's going - - it's...

I would first ask if you intend for it to mechanically feed through a lever action or other repeater. That will have some bearing on your nose shape, as will intentions to hunt at longer ranges...

My Dad bought a Lab Radar several years ago. Took it out several times and after numerous occurrences of it automatically shutting off at inopportune times, reading other people's shots and...

Many ported 9mm's being sold these days too. A lot of young men in the country seem to have a severe case of vaginitis.

Some of the brakes on AR's might make the guns run a little flatter for the...

Your modern N-frame will be a round-butt style grip frame. They often sell them with grips that match the old square-butt silhouette and feel, but the actual backstrap has a pronounced forward curve...