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Turner's Outdoorsman is a rather large guns and fishing tackle store with quite a few stores in Southern California and has turned out to be a pretty good source for loading components. While in one today for some primers, I asked about powder and the reply was, by law according to the salesman...

https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/category/categoryId/754 Graf and Sons currently has available Federal .300 Win mag "pull down" brass as primed cases, meaning loaded unfired rounds that have been disassembled. Price is something like $68 per 100 and I have a hundred on the way. Pictures of...

Late yesterday, only briefly, there was a new thread titled, I think, "Mixing Powders" that was rather oddly worded, leaving itself open to perhaps ridiculous replies, something that we would have had a lot of fun with. However the thread has been removed, perhaps for the best. While the author...

SOLD 7/5/15 For some time I have only been using large rifle primers so I might be doing a favor by putting up for sale the left over handgun and small rifle primers. Since we're talking primers and haz-mat fees, that I wouldn't bother with, you would have to come to me, but if in So...

I pulled a box of 20 Lapua .308 Win 185 gr HP-BT bullets that turned out having a thick, crusted coating of black sealant at the junction of bullet and case (pulled for the purpose of using the bullets with another project and replacing the .308s with another bullet). Removing the sealant from...

For reduced rifle loads for a variety of calibers, I use Trail Boss powder and an assortment of cast lead bullets. Since the former #1 source for lead rifle bullets, Montana Bullet Works, is no longer available, I had to run to the internet to find other sources. Suppliers of cast rifle bullets...

I seem to have an excessive quantity of 190 and 200 gr .30 caliber Sierra bullets that I would like to cut down on by loading some for '06 Garand ammunition. My usual loadings for 150, 168 and 180 grain Sierras are 45 gr 4895 and 4064 and have tried a few clips with the same powder charge using...

My three '06 M-1 Garands all insist on ejecting most of the fired cases 10 feet or so in front of the firing line with just a very few rearward or at arms length in front of the line, making recovery 40% at best. It seems that about all rounds loaded with 150s will go forward while a few more of...

Recently acquired ten 20-round boxes of Federal American Eagle '06 ammunition "FOR M1 GARAND USE", 150 gr FMJ, with headstamp FC 13 (or 18) 30 - M1, and crimped primers. There is no question about the quality or shootability of the ammunition. It's all first class. The box indicates "Made...

There have been some recent posts about Federal primers and criticizing the way they are packaged. Here is the reason why: A FedEx or UPS driver was transporting a quantity of Federal primers packaged in their original small boxes when the truck struck a sharp bump in the road, causing the...

I use a large variety of cast lead rifle bullets, mostly for indoor range shooting and primarily loaded with Trail Boss powder. Up to several months ago my primary source of cast bullets had been Montana Bullet Works but very unfortunately owner Dave Jennings had to quit business due to injury...

Probably enough already, but I would like to cover an aspect of brass tumbling times that never seems to be mentioned. Members report tumbling times anywhere from one hour to eight hours and even longer. Something isn't quite the same here. What no one mentions is whether they are tumbling rifle...

I question why more reloaders, when preparing cases, choose to chamfer rather than use a flaring tool to bell case mouths. If just removing inside burrs, fine, but going much farther with the tool (chamfering) can result in cutting a knife edge ridge around the case mouth rather than keeping the...

I seem to recall from an American Rifleman article that firing lubricated or oiled ammunition, due to a hydrolic effect, can increase chamber pressure. Probably more of a concern with rifle ammunition. Does anyone have any insight on this?

This is a follow up to a thread I initiated a while back regarding moly coated bullets and possible negative effects on rifle bores/chambers. It was pointed out that a Mdl 700 .458 Win Mag developed chamber (but not barrel) pitting possibly from the use of moly coated lead bullets, resulting in...

For reduced loads for several rifles I use Trail Boss powder and the black molybdenum coated bullets (as well as standard lead bullets). Two rifles using the MCB’s are Rem Mdl 700 .458 Win Mags and one developed pitting in the chamber (but not in the barrel itself) that eventually became so bad...

The following is presented as a general discussion for using Trail Boss powder with rifle loads and is not a reply to other posts. Most forum discussions on the subject of TB powder relate to handgun loads. I have never used Trail Boss powder with handgun loads but have used over 20 lbs with...