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Wanted to get some 22lr practice in today--unfortunately it was quite windy so the hardest part was playing "dodgeball" with the gusts and timing shots. I knew I wasn't going to get tiny groups, but the gustiness was mostly quartering tailwinds, so I figured I still had a chance if I could time...

A friend of mine recently scored this for a song from someone who said it sat in a safe for 25 years unused. I was asked to clean it up and check it out--but I'm not well versed on shotguns in general even though I have a few. I looked up the serial number and dated it to 1947. It appears to be...

I shoot quite a few of larger capacity magnums (a very expensive habit considering how fast that eats powder). Recently I've been shooting 7mm STW in both conventional brass as well as nickel coated brass. It may be purely a coincidence--but I've noticed that generally the nickel-plated brass...

Was out helping a hunting friend get ready for the upcoming season--he was doing the Corelokt through his 270 win remmie BDL and was getting wide dispersion on his impacts trying to zero his redfield scope. He invited me to take a few shots to help him out--which of course I gladly accepted. I...

Anyone tried Federal's new optimized levergun ammo yet? I'm kinda curious though I hand load my own ammo. Mostly I'm wondering if they made a better bullet.

I know the crowd that is into hand-loading their own rimfire is probably very small, but if you do-- head's up that precision reloading has some of the best VV powders for rimfire in stock.

Yup--had to get another one. Actually, this is the little scout, and I got it just for the receiver and bolt destined to be mated with Lilja's fast barrel. Even though I'm taking the stock barrel off, by no means am I getting rid of it--just like my first 457 the quality of the bore work is...

Hunting friend had a good year in business and I happened to find him where I shoot with a couple of new rifles. Last season he was sporting an old wooden browning in 30-06--I was shocked to see he's gone ultra-modern high tech.:) I got to examine and fire a Seekins precsion Havak element in...

I thought there was no way I'd get a delivery over the holiday weekend--but Fedex surprised me with a package of 22lr goodies from Creedmoor Sports. First, a 10 pack of R-100 for my CZ 457 which I know will make it very happy--and second Creedmoor's own precision scale for .01 gr accuracy for my...

Winds were forecasted to be in 15 mph +/- range today, so I figured it was going to be a hopeless waste of ammo for my 22lr. Then I got the curious idea--let's see what happens comparing my lowly marlin 17 hmr against my CZ jaguar--in this case my marlin was shooting a 17 gr v-max type bullet vs...

Got an inquiry from somebody on the Sniper Hide about this build--honestly I had forgotten about it and haven't fired it in a long time. It bubbled back into being a topic of interest given the recent--if not ironic--interest in the cartridge which is the mother of many wildcats, but became...

This subject came up here a few years ago--specifically, do some bullets show a propensity to actually get better accuracy past the "standard" test range of 100yds? I've read in Litz's books that he believes this does happen in some cases and I think that was the argument being made at the time...

I put a 338 fed together a few years ago based on Wilson Combat's barrel, it's a rather odd-ball affair at 18" and is the only AR barrel I've ever bought that comes with an intermediate length gas system. It came fluted and unthreaded at a discount price, so I believe it was meant for a woods...

I'm not much of a handgun guy, mostly cause my bad eyes have a hard time with their sights (I've been down the road of all kinds of corrective glasses etc.). But I recently stumbled on a goldmine of hand-load recipes on Shooting Times and that has inspired me to dust off my Colt competition...

Since the 6.5 Creedmoor is widely recognized on this forum as the Man-Bun cartridge, it seems only natural that the smaller 6mm Creedmoor could be called Mullet-Boy. I actually built this years ago and it was well-used when I set it aside and pursued other projects, but a recent thread on...

Just watched this movie (I'm very partial to sniper movies) and it is superb as well as being contemporary in topic. The most interesting part is the mix of eastern and western rifles and scopes used by both sides, I recognized most of the gear and wonder if it truly is that mixed in the actual...

I have visitors about to show up for a few days--but decided to take a break from the endless cleaning to get some lead in the air. Decided to squeeze off 10 rounds of bulk ammo through my "bottom of the barrel" AR 47 upper I scored for $149 some years ago. I probably pulled a few of the shots...

Decided to revive work on this hot number, the biggest problem with it has been finding brass. I did finally find some after resorting to resizing 375 H&H brass, but the factory 7mmSTW brass still wouldn't fit the chamber properly and I had to figure out how to resize it to fit. The chamber was...

Having set aside my 6mm BR norma ambitions for the time being (I will be back with a different barrel) I decided to return to work on my 25 PRC project which has also been somewhat frustrating. The biggest problem is the very sparse load data that is out there--and what little is out there has...

This cartridge and barrel came up recently in conversation--and since I've bought one and put a rifle together using it; I recently "revived" my development efforts and have a few suggestions to make for anyone contemplating getting one. The barrel comes in 1:8 twist which theoretically gets...