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The SAFE, PRACTICAL, and ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN manufacture of nitrocellulose is roughly as complicated as making a cake from scratch. Except for the ATFE dragging their feet in permits &...

If this has already been mentioned, forgive me. The loads that I kept coming across for the M1A were 43.5/IMR-4895/147-150 gr. FMJBT, and 42.5/IMR-4895/168 gr. BTHP. IF MEMORY SERVES, Winchester...

That's STILL cool. And I don't even OWN a muzzle-loader.

The M1892 Rossi action is puh-LENTY strong. You won't stretch it using any published .357 Magnum load. I have one in .45 Colt, with which I've achieved velocities near the .454 Casull level with same...

+1 and LMAO ROFL!!!

Is ANY of us REALLY ready for ANY of this?

I'D EXPECT the same data available for copper plated projectiles to work for cast lead projectiles, also. If anything, velocities might be slightly higher, since cast lead bullets tend to have...

I'D look at data for IMR-700X. It is among the cleanest-burning of shotgun powders and seems to give wonderful consistency. Because it is on the faster-burning end of the scale, it will be quite...

Tangfolio Witness (NOT the "race gun") in .38 Super. It's been a while since I bought it, but MAN what a shooter it IS!!!

There WASN'T a shortage already?
Nitrocellulose is ridiculously easy and inexpensive to make (except for the regulatory/licensing B.S.). There's simply no excuse for the U.S. to NOT be making their...

I'D bet on it NOT being corrosive, or certainly not being AS corrosive as black powder. If memory serves, smokeless powders burn at a far higher temperature than black powder. The difference in...

If you are working with a propellant that you decide burns less cleanly than you like, there ARE things you can do to improve matters:
1.) Increase the charge weight. Unless you are all the way to...

I don't find anything wrong with that. I have been a BIG fan of Ed's Red, since the first time I made some. If I remember right, there is a paragraph in the write-up for making Ed's Red, which...

I know that, these days, availability dictates our propellant choices more than anything else. Even so, I'd suggest that you steer clear of propellants which list compressed charges in the data....

I'M with WingerEd on using Bullseye or Unique in .45 ACP, but I cannot imagine why True Blue wouldn't work perfectly well. Given the velocities vs. charge weights, True Blue appears to burn faster...

It also depends on the round of interest, and the usual chamber pressures at which they operate. I'll shoot almost any tarnished .45 ACP brass, though I may refrain from pushing the upper edge with...

MY favorites are Alliant Unique, Alliant Herco, and AA#5, with no preference among them. I'm more familiar with Alliant propellants than from any other manufacturer, so I'll use them for reference....

Reviews of the ammunition I mentioned report 3" groups at 100 yards, which would be more like it. I should point out that nobody reported such groups with a SxS shotgun, but I don't know why it would...

I have pondered a project like this for the last few years. When I mentioned it on another website, the more experienced shotgunners who (evidently) tried it reported disappointing results. I was not...

All of these different combinations that end up making usable bullet lube truly fascinate me. The combinations that I've seen discussed (so far) seem to make bullet lubes that are used in heated...

There's a load using RedDot and 158 gr. LSWCs that will give 1000 f/s from a 2" vented revolver barrel. I won't repeat it here, but it made me appreciate Alliant RedDot (or PROMO) for use in .38...

If your barrel slugs at .3080" -.3085", then forget what I said about swaging cases to get j-bullets of proper diameter. There are many types of jacketed .308" pistol bullets being made. The trick is...

It takes very little more than nitric acid, cellulose, a reinforced reaction chamber, and the technical skills of a Bachelor's level chemistry degree to manufacture nitrocellulose. Environmental...

I've shot a whole 50 rounds through a SINGLE Ballester-Molina .45 ACP, and only field stripped it for cleaning. I WILL say that the B-M shot pretty well for an "old war horse" type of pistol. When I...

LOL! You're among friends, Abunaitoo.