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I recently got an Auto 5, 16 gauge 3-shot, from a customer who said it had feeding problems. I checked it and found a couple of rough spots that I cleaned up. It now functions smoothly, but has another problem. Now, it feeds well and ejects well, except for the last shot. It won't eject the...

I recently got an Auto 5, 16 gauge 3-shot, from a customer who said it had feeding problems. I checked it and found a couple of rough spots that I cleaned up. It now functions smoothly, but has another problem. Now, it feeds well and ejects well, except for the last shot. It won't eject the...

Just received this from Hornaday: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hornady® Recalls 7 Lots of 500 S&W 300 grain FTX® Custom™ Pistol Ammo Grand Island, NE – Hornady® Manufacturing announced the recall of seven lots of 500 S&W 300 gr. FTX® Custom™ pistol ammunition. Hornady ballisticians have determined...

I've looked hard at the .25-06 over the years and can see advantages over the .270 as a long-range varmint cartridge, shooting bullets lighter than 100 grains. However, I chose the .270 Win because, from what I understand, it has a bit better long-range ballistic performance, both external and...

See the attachment. I wrote it as a follow-up for Hornady website post written earlier, before the meat cutter found the bullet.

The case I found and reported yesterday as a .35 Winchester was so crusted/corroded that I missed the first few numbers. It's actually a .25-35 Win! Wikipedia quote: "While significantly more powerful than the .25-20 Winchester, the .25-35 WCF can be used to hunt small deer at 200 yards and...

I posted a new thread titled "Deer - Left Handed" under the hunting forum, if anyone is interested (with picture). Shot it with my .270 Win, Rem 700 Stainless in an HS Precision Sendero take-off stock, using 130 grain Hornady GMX bullets ahead of 60 grains of Reloder 22. The first bullet did...

It was cold and windy this morning, so I decided to go way down back of my son's 140 acre property in what we call the "scrub field", around which there's a good mix of hard and softwoods and some open areas near one of our tree stands. We'd seen plenty of sign there, but the tree stand is...

I was deer hunting today, and walking through our blueberry field in a bare patch of ground, saw an old empty .35 Winchester shell that was pretty well corroded. I'd never heard about the .35 Winchester, a rimmed cartridge, but am very familiar with the .35 Rem. Wickipedia said that it was...

There was another post I read today where someone recommended spraying WD-40 into a rifle action to "clean it" instead of taking it apart and doing it right. I respectfully suggest that gun actions and WD-40 be kept as far apart as possible. WD-40 gums up after a few months and can make...

Last week my grown son and I went grouse hunting in the North Maine Woods. We stayed at Historic Pittston Farm Lodge and hunted more northerly than that. It rained most of the time and we don't have dogs, so except for a few jaunts down grown-up woods roads, we rode logging roads. Staying...

The biggest problems with newer rimfire rifles are due to poor quality control, and design. Failure to fire, often due to one or combination of these: 1. Insufficient mainspring power 2. Poor firing pin nose shape: a. too wide or flat, b. hitting too high on the rim (fold); c. roughness or...

Being an old guy who was brought up with blued steel and real wood, I like pink guns less than black lipstick on a woman...not much. I will not offer to take one to the range to sight it in, but would do it in private if it were for a girl/woman. Won't do it if owned by a guy...NO WAY! :eek:

A friend had serious stovepiping problems with her Mosquito, so her husband asked me if I could look at it. Upon examination, it was obvious that the extractor was not holding rims against the slide face adequately. There was too much clearance and the extractor didn't push the case against...

I couldn't resist buying a like-new CZ 455 a month or so ago. I pillar-bedded it, but had problems with the original scope and with getting it to group well with the ammo I bought. The scope was replaced with a Bushnell 4-12X-AO Banner, which is much better than the Cabela's caliber-specific...

Here I am, 67 years old, just retired from a 46 year career last Friday, and decide it's time to take a walk down back this morning with my 1983 born, recently-rebarreled Remington 700 ADL, .243 Win. I got to the large blueberry field, found and picked up my IHMSA turkey target and carried it...

FYI: I've greatly improved accuracy on several .22LRs by using a few layers of electrical tape on actions that fit loosely in their stocks. One particular 10-22 wasn't grouping well, but after putting some "temporary" electrical tape on the receiver, the guy started winning plinker benchrest...

I recently bought an "Ultra-Walnut" stock like the ones offered by Remington. Our deer season ended last Saturday, so I decided to pillar-bed my sporter-barrelled action into it. (The previous stock is a take-off Sendero stock.) I used home-made pillars from 1/2" dia. steel tubing available...

This has been a topic of discussion here lately. I'd like to throw in my theory. I've had considerable experience in rifle accurizing, especially in bedding methods. I haven't found that there's a significant difference in accuracy between long and short actions, but more with case capacity...

I'm wondering how many people here have actually shot more than 10 deer with one rifle. Several people may have shot more than 10 deer, but have used several rifles to do so. That's nice, but not the question. I've had a couple of rifles that I have used to kill at least ten deer. Both are...