Long ago, I competed in .22 indoor pistol matches wit a Hi Standard Tournament. I got about 1 failure to fire out of a box of 50 with Win, Rem, or other standard velocity ammo. I switched to CCI...
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Forum: Rimfire Area
Long ago, I competed in .22 indoor pistol matches wit a Hi Standard Tournament. I got about 1 failure to fire out of a box of 50 with Win, Rem, or other standard velocity ammo. I switched to CCI...
Forum: Leverguns
This will be my second post on this thread. My oldest granddaughter (29) went to her local range to participate in the weekly running deer match, competing with a rifle I gave her. She earned a 3rd...
Forum: Leverguns
What Winger-Ed said. I had some new .30 Rem rimless brass I was neck expanding to .32 Rem. On firing the necks split. Annealed the rest of the batch, 90 new brass mind you, to solve the problem.
Forum: Leverguns
My .303 M99 is a takedown, but I have never done that. No need. Before the PRVI Partizan brass was available, I cut off .40 S&W brass to make a sleeve, and pressed it down over a .30-30 case to make...
Forum: Leverguns
Thanks for all the help! I had to wait a few days for a bore light to arrive (my old one was kaput). Follower is steel. No dents or obstructions in the tube. Shortened the magazine spring 4 inches,...
Forum: Leverguns
I have tried to load the magazine as normal with other lever guns, but can’t get more than 4 rounds in. First round goes in OK. Succeeding rounds hang up as if the nose is catching on something. By...
Forum: Leverguns
Yes indeed. I gave my M94 .32 Special to my daughter. It is very accurate with cast bullets. Go for it, make cases out of .30-30s if necessary
Forum: Leverguns
Mine might be older, it has that crappy finish. But I did have that same feeding problem. The lifter has a kind of stop sticking forward to position the round. I cut that back an eighth of an inch as...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Get a case of hardball also. Where you are, you may need it, and keep your magazines filled. Just saying.
Forum: Rimfire Area
OK, I got a group with the Hornady 30 gr v-max from a Marlin M983S bolt action rifle. It’s cold, so 25 yds off the back porch, 5 shots into 0.45 “ with 4X scope.
Forum: Factory Rifles
Really like all these reminiscences. By the ‘70s I was out of the Marines, married with kids, trying to make a decent life for us in an up-and-down economy.
The gun I still wish I had been able to...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Triplebeards - those are nice groups. Its been a long time since I skinned a squirrel. Wife was a city girl, and won’t eat them, but if there is no other protein (politics being what they are now),...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Did some 25 yd shooting with the 30 gr Vmax ammo today. Does not group in the Ruger Single six. In the S&W M&P it groups as well as the 40 grain, but is fully 2 inches lower.
My daughter shot her...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Received the ammo today. Ordered 1Feb, delivered 6Feb. Clarksville TN to Belfast, ME UPS.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Haven’t got this ammo yet. But my daughter bought a Smith & Wesson M&P in .22 WMR caliber, and brought it over for me to try it out. It has a 30 round magazine. I loaded 20 rounds of CCI 40 grain TMJ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
The Ruger #3 single shot will also accept the longer brass. And, as DanLee says, make it out of .30-30 as we did when the caliber was new. 6 gr. pistol powder, cornmeal on top to fill, a dab of wax...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I have a Ruger single-six and a Winchester 9422 in this caliber. The ammo I have is 40 grain softpoint, and maybe a part box of 50 grain around somewhere. I took a look at the Hornady 30 grain, and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A number of people have no idea where the bullet can go. I had been shooting, then watch the only others, a couple, on the range. He had spotted an iron plate at the 100yard berm, which had been shot...
Fiocchi prints that right on the box. For .38 special, they make 110 gr @ 1100 fps, 125 gr @ 1050 fps, 158 gr @ 850 fps, 148 gr @ 750 fps.
The gun is an old police Smith and Wesson model 10, fixed...
Intro: it’s cold, weather is wretched with snow, rain and ice here in mid coast Maine, and I’m old. So, I don’t get out to the shop to do reloading very much.
I know this is about cast bullets,...
I have said tat the Ruger Bisley grip is Ruger’s best kept secret. I have both Super Blackhawks. Far more pleasant to shoot the Bisley. ( .41 Magnums)
Forum: Rimfire Area
I would want a really good observer on the spotting scope.
Forum: Leverguns
The article on this gun appeared in the January 2024 Rifle magazine. Art Merrill is the author. I will let him tell about it.
Here are my thoughts/questions:
1. Is this in reaction to the...
Forum: Military Rifles
It would seem to me, you could load up some pleasant shooting loads in the 8mm06 brass with a cast bullet, maybe 20 gr 4198, and develop a useful CB load at the same time as fireforming the A I...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Laminated stocks: Some years ago I bought an M1 from DCM. It was a return from the Philippines and the stock, front hand guard, and rear hand guard were all different kinds of wood, which offended my...
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 |