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I see a lot of threads about Makarov pistols but don't ever see anything about the Stechkin pistols that the Eastern Bloc also used. Do any of you fellows have Stechkin pistols? I see that they (or some of them) could be shot in full auto mode, but don't know if that was a certain model or if...

My Ruger Hawkeye shoots amazingly well with 65 grain Sierra gamekings, and that's a fine bullet for what I use it for. But...I'd really like to shoot some of the small bullets like the 35 and 40 grainers, leadfree or not leadfree. In my early bullet/powder workups with the rifle, I didn't have...

My wife and I had some company this weekend - two single women in their 50's - and they wanted to shoot some pistols. I dragged out a couple of 22 revolvers, a 38 snub nosed, my 357 Python, and the Beretta PX4 in 9mm. After a lot of shooting with each pistol, they both loved the 22's but...

Though deer season is over, I'm still in the woods looking for coyotes and the evil pigs. I see plenty of deer most every evening but the boys and girls haven't seemed to be very interested in the opposite sex - until this evening. I've got does to my distant left and a buck to my distant right...

You may have read my other thread on how my Burris FFII died. Well, it didn't die. My abject apologies to Burris and to Oldcspsarge, who said that he didn't believe it was dead, which spurred me to retest it. I had taken the Burris off the gun and replaced it with a Bushnell that I knew to be...

Well Darn...I've had a Burris FFII on my Ruger 260 Rem for about 7 months and I've said on this forum that I liked it quite a bit. I think that it has died. Just this week I got a pound of Reloader 17 to try out, and I couldn't get a decent group with any powder load. I was just spraying them...

I'm going to buy a neck sizing die for my 223, and I could use some advice on which one to get. People have said on this forum that the Lee collet dies are excellent and relatively cheap. Is that a better choice than the more expensive versions just because it's less money for the same quality...

For many years I've been mostly partial resizing brass. That worked great with my 270 and my 220, both of which have tapered cases. When I got the 260, I just went straight to partial resizing. It hasn't worked on the 260 as well as it did on the other two and I have since read that partial...

I'm ready to work up some R17 loads for the 260. The bullets I'll be using are Nosler Ballistic Tips in 100 gr and 120 gr. From now on I'll use which ever one turns in the best accuracy. None of my loading books even show Reloader 17, so I've been doing some googling. I have some info now, but...

Based on info from this forum, I ordered some new water based surfactant carbon remover (Slip2000 Carbon Killer) and some Boretech Eliminator for copper removal, though it's an all around cleaner. I decided to try the new stuff first and follow up with my 'old' stuff to check if the new stuff...

Deer season is over, so I parked the 260 and 270 in the safe and took out my 220 Swift to do some coyote hunting. Well, I'm not doing so good finding coyotes, but the pigs are running all over me. Twice this week I've put a 55 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip in the lungs of a big pig and twice I...

I've got 2 lever action 22's, a 39A and a 9422. Both are accurate and fun to shoot, but I've had a long time gripe about the 9422. I've said that it's finicky about ammo and occasionally will just NOT feed a new round. I've had several theories on the cause, but every time I thought I had it...

I managed to put a lot of copper in the barrel of my 223. I've been working on getting it out, but severe copper fouling is pretty tough to remove. Based on what I've read in this forum, I went out (to the big city) to get some better copper removing materials. I bought two different types and...

The thread about 260 versus 308 for long distance shooting is interesting, but I think the caliber decision might be easier than the rifle decision. This is directed at the folks that actually DO shoot targets at long range, and doing it with other than military rifles. I really would like to...

I knew it would happen when I picked up the 223 to go to the woods this afternoon. All season I've been looking for the big 10 point that I saw 2 days before the season opened. Since then I've been hard at it, and armed with the 270 or the 260. Finally I gave up and took a nice 8 point (in this...

This deer season is almost over here in central Texas, and I've spent pretty much all of this season with my beloved Sako 270 in the safe and the Ruger Compact in 260 in my hands. The compact rifle now has a full sized synthetic stock, so that it'd fit me a bit better, and I put a Burris FFII in...

It never fails that when I see a big coyote, and blast him, he's gotten much smaller by the time I've walked over to him. I've tried walking faster, but 'ground shrinkage' is faster than I can walk.:D I've laughed about ground shrinkage for years. But...this morning I had a big one come past me...

Recently there have been some back and forth comments on styles of hunting and what constitutes "real hunting". Of the two opposing groups, one thinks that you need to do it the hard way or it isn't real hunting, and then there's the group I'm in where we hunt out of nice box blinds and feel no...

The most recent scope purchases (one Leupold VXII and one Burris FFII) have the range dots below the main crosshair. I never thought I'd have much need of them, but bought them like that anyway. Today I decided that instead of hunting deer I'd hunt coyotes so I took the short barrelled 260, with...

I have a Ruger 77 Hawkeye in 223, with a 1 in 9 twist, and I have found that it's a tackdriver with the Sierra 65 gr Gameking. The rifle seemed to have a preference for that heavier bullet and didn't do nearly as well with 55 grain bullets. I could just leave it at that but would like to try out...