The ultimate Alaskan bear-stopper: a .35 Whelen Mini-G by Shuff’s Parkerizing. It’s a true “carbine”-length M1 (16.1” Criterion barrel).
Pic below is from one of Shuff’s AK clients, posted on...
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Forum: Military Rifles
The ultimate Alaskan bear-stopper: a .35 Whelen Mini-G by Shuff’s Parkerizing. It’s a true “carbine”-length M1 (16.1” Criterion barrel).
Pic below is from one of Shuff’s AK clients, posted on...
Forum: Military Rifles
A lot depends on whether it’s been subject to Bubba-butchery. That receiver alone, if unmolested, could be worth some money to either a pre-War collector or an M1 fan wanting to build a “correct”...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Anyone with these dinosaur-caliber rifles using 5744 for reduced loads, but at velocities that are still hunting-capable on non-dinos (e.g., deer, hogs)?
I have a 404 Jeff, that’s why I’m asking.
Yeah, a 4” GP100 in .41 Spc would be the cat’s keester!
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
For those members here who like to play with their Big Bore rifles using reduced loads, what powders do you prefer?
And by “Big Bore” rifles I mean the kind chambered for African-type cartridges,...
4.9-5.0grns of Bullseye duplicates the 230grn Mil hard-ball ammo.
No need to push that bullet any faster unless you're a risk-taker.
Which is hard to do anyway with over-pressured handloads likely to crack frames, bust brass, and shorten spring life. :roll:
Forum: Cast Boolits
Bumping this thread, as I have a .404 Jeff as well.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that a .404 Jeff owner had made his .424 HC boolits from .44 mag HC boolits using some sort of Lee product...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
5344 and poly-coated heavy (i.e., 200gn) HC boolits. No filler or fluff needed.
That was me, using coated H&G-pattern 230grn HC boolits. 4.8 - 5.0grns of Bullseye pretty much duplicates a Mil ball load. I’ve even shot it in 3” 1911s (Defender size) with excellent results. In...
Old Col. Coot especially contradicted himself (typically without explaining why) in his statements in support of his Scout Rifle theory.
The “making weight” aspect is just one glaring instance. ...
Don’t need to.
The old coot said a lot of contradictory things over time, as well as offering up pontifications on non-gun topics well beyond his range of personal experience.
I’ve loaded the H&G #34 230grn RN boolit extensively. A local guy has moulds for several H&G-pattern boolits, and he can crank them out coated for a few pennies extra.
Prior to all the...
Not intending a thread hi-jack, but I’ve got a Remmy M600 in .350RM and was interested in loading these 200grn Cast Performance g/c boolits:
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1988172847?pid=247808...
Forum: Military Rifles
Supposedly 1957 was the date FN switched from using corrosive to non-corrosive primers in 30-06 ball ammo. I'm sitting on what's left of a 1K-rd case of it that I got years ago.
The production...
10mm Mag conversions on S&W 610s never had misfires. But the conversion really makes sense only on the longer barreled revolvers anyway, as a dedicated hunting handgun and general boonies howitzer. ...
Some of the older reloading books (mid-'80s to early '90s vintage) have the data.
FWIW, Norma's early 200gn FP load actually did display a m.v. of 1200+ fps from a 5" barrel, which is what the...
Once 10mm revolver guys find out about the 10mm Magnum 'conversion,' done by means of reaming the cylinder chambers to Magnum length, they have a three caliber wheelgun: .40S&W, 10mm AUTO, and 10mm...
"200 @ 1200" was the old "Sonny Crockett" load for the 200gn FP slug.
Made the '80s roar, it did. :mrgreen:
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Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Looks similar in concept to the HOPCO-USA M1 mount for micro-RDSs reviewed by GarandThumb here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=er__eN-Xm_M
There's also the Ulitmak forward rail mount for M1s....
Forum: Military Rifles
A guy at our range just bought two CMP M1's - one directly from the CMP, a .30-06 RG or FG 'Special' (the ones for like, $750-$800), and one in .308/7.62 that was another club member's. I think he...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |