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Ever since the shortage began, I've been looking for my favorite rifle powder, H335. My favorite shop finally got some in, and I restocked. Now I can go varmit hunting without fear. Oh joy! I'm wondering if we've found bottom on the shortage.

Went varmit hunting the other day with a new load I worked up for my .223. Had been using a 45gr. Sierra spitzer softpoint over 26gr. of H335. Shot pretty well for me, and had decent terminal performance. But I haven't been able to find that bullet, lately. So I tried a 40gr. Hornady...

I’ve had the jones for a levergun for a long time. As part of my personal economic stimulus plan, I decided the time was right to get one. A low cost one. A Henry. Searching TFL, I noticed a familiar pattern. Those who owned ‘em loved ‘em. Those who owned Marlins and Brownings thought...

Got this on e-mail. Gave me a laugh. Enjoy.

Tell me this is not an April Fools Joke. Slackening demand for ammo? Where? In another universe? And searching here didn't come up with any discussion on it. What the heck? Source is McClatchy. Here's the url, and the scoop. There were earlier articles about another layoff in Nov '08...

Yeah, there's a big powder shortage going on. The place it hurts me most is H335. Just curious, has anyone seen any anywhere? FWIW, Idaho residents, Cliffs GSR in Boise got in a pallet of powder today. AND primers. :D But no H335. :(

I haven't bought any components for a while. Combination of being busy at work, and not shooting much this winter. Went into Sportsman's Warehouse in Boise. They usually have 50? 80? rows of powder stacked 3-5 cans deep. Call it 150-300 pounds of powder in stock. There were 5 pounds in...

I am in my early ‘50s, have wanted to hunt deer for years, but couldn’t get over the inertia hump. Which is to say, I couldn’t get anyone to invite me out. Finally got a young guy from work, an avid hunter, to take me. We started small, A half-day hunt. Here in Idaho, that’s practical...

Don't know how many of you remember Larry Correia (3,800 posts here,) but he's written a book that's as much fun for a gunnie to read as any book I have read in a while. Its called "Monster Hunter, International." Basic plot is, monsters are real, and real people have to hunt them down to...

I building a sizable collection of .223 Lake City brass, mostly by scrounging. It has proven quite accurate in my Varmit rifle (.223 NEF.) Are the lots pretty consistent from year to year? Will I get better accuracy by sorting by lot (or year?) Or is that an unnecessary stop that won't add...

Sigh. The things we do for love, and our love of the sport. Yesterday I played rangemaster to 66 Cub Scouts shooting BB guns. Fortunately, not all at the same time. 9 groups of about 7-8 each. This is the first time I have done something like this. My wife is in the Stake Primary...

I've been using a foaming bore cleaner for about a year now, and I think I like it more now than I did when I started. Especially for my varmit rifles, which tend to get "rode hard and put away wet." Old routine: wet patch with solvent, change to bore brush and scrub a while, let it sit, scrub...

A coupla years ago, I inherited a .17 wildcat. .357 mag pistol brass necked down to .17. A great varmit rifle. I've put over 1k rounds through it. (Based on shooting the bag of 1k bullets I inherited with the rifle.) My cleaning regimen has evolved to: -Bore snake every 20-50 rounds or so...

One of my good friends passed away a while ago, and his widow gave me a bunch of his old reloading stuff. There were 2 paper 1lb cans of H110. Price marked on the cans was $2.25. Do any of you seniors with good records know how long ago you could buy a pound of powder for $2.25? There were...

Just kidding. Its an off the shelf P-3AT. But this group got me a litle excited. 7 yards, offhand, 6 shots, about one shot per second. I was in the groove. The little pistol is capable of putting the bullets where you want them, once you get used to the slim grip, long trigger, strange...

Seems to me that many of the conservative talk show hosts have been mentioning the 2nd amendment and RKBA in the past week. Just a few minutes ago I heard Glenn Beck warn that Giuliani and Bloomberg did not believe in the right to bear arms. He said he used to think "from my cold dead hands"...

I read about the OCW ("Optimal Charge Weight") method of load development here on the reloading forum. Have reviewed the original website. I need to develop a couple of new loads soon. One for .308, one for .223. So how has the OCW method worked for those of you who have tried it? And...

Who makes the .762 NATO ammo with the IVI headstamp? I was at the range yesterday, sighting in a scope on the new mount for my CETME. The guy next to me had some business associates in from Holland. He was being a gracious host :D Anyway, he had a an M-1A SOCOM (?) an M1A with a 16" barrel...

...when you have a daughter to help reload? Just got done doing some .45acp, with my 8yr. old daughter helping. I operated the powder measure and checked powder drop. She seated the bullets and operated the (single stage) press. Went pretty fast with the two of us. Yeah, I know I'll...

I haven't reloaded .308acp for a while. Used up my stash of Laser-Cast bullets. Bought some new Berry's bullets. When I loaded 'em up, I had a big problem with insufficient neck tension. Over half of them wouldn't hold a bullet properly. I checked as many variables as I could. I checked...