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I picked up a couple of boxes of 215 grain coated Missouri bullets for 300 BO sub-sonic loads. I'm having trouble seating them to a consistent OAL. I believe this is because my Hornady 300 BO seating die has only stems made for very pointy tipped bullets. Only the very edge of the flat-nose...

I picked up a surplus Bulgarian Makarov to add to the cold-war/commie gun section of the collection a couple of weeks ago. It looks and shoots great but at 25 feet, it's already 2 1/2" left, and 2" high of my point of aim. The rear sight is dovetailed and staked. Any chance of knocking it to...

I'm in the planning stages of building a 300 blackout SBR with a 10.5 inch heavy profile barrel. No way of knowing how many more months it'll be for the tax stamp so the planning stage may be prolonged... :rolleyes: All my other AR-15 rifles (16,18, and 20 inch) have free floated barrels to...

I have a Rock Island Armory 1911 "tactical" pistol and I want to replace the fixed rear sight with an adjustable model. According to RIA it has "standard" Novak dovetail cuts for both front and rear (.495" x 65º). This is not a carry gun. I'm looking for something that will work reasonably...

I've been loading 9mm, .40S&W and .45 Auto for several years now and I never much worried about trimming cases between loadings. Now I'm starting to load for some hotter calibers, namely 10mm auto and .44 Remington Magnum. Do I need to start worrying about trimming those or are the cases...

I have a few thousand "twice fired" .223 cases to anneal. I picked up a Giraud tool annealing machine a few months ago and did some initial testing with some junk cases and 750 degree (green) TempilLaq. It seems most of info and YouTube videos on the Intertubes concerning annealing is wrong...

I picked up a new Smith/Wesson model 69 recently. The only .44 ammo the store had at the time was a box of cast lead "cowboy action" rounds. so I got a box of.44 special and a box of .44 magnum. I went through the magnum box, and about half the special box along with some poly/moly coated...

I picked up a pound of the stuff at my local reloading shop. I've got a thousand 115 grain Berry's round nose projectiles I want to load up for plinking. I have three sources of load data for this but they vary quite a bit: The sheet that came with the powder says they use 6 grains for...

I picked up a couple hundred for testing. If they work out, I'd be using them for highpower service rifle matches. What powder are you using with them? How are they grouping? Sierra says they'll load to magazine length but they're even longer than 80 gr SMKs.

I posted this is the "smithy" forum without much luck. I'm hoping it'll do better here. I'm looking for pictures of an M-16/AR-15 service rifle showing the modification described below: I don't think this is the same thing as the "tension screws" that push up on the upper's rear lug. It...

I'm looking for pictures of an M-16/AR-15 service rifle showing the modification described below: I've found a lot of pics of a "tension screw" that pushes up on the take-down pin lug but I don't think that's the same thing.

I'm building an AR-15 for CMP & NRA service rifle competition. I'm going to be using a Rock River DCM legal float tube. The two barrel nut wrenches I have won't work with this float tube & nut. Anybody know which wrench will work with the RR setup?

Not too long ago Brownell's had Bushmaster stripped uppers & lowers on sale for $49.99. It seems I just couldn't pass up that deal so I got one of each. I figured I'd put together another AR "eventually". Well, that plan changed into building a "no excuses" gun for high-power service rifle...

I've got a few thousand pieces of Lake City 223 (or 5.56 if you prefer) "once or twice fired" brass. In the past I've sorted this stuff by the year on the headstamp. Now I'm wondering whether the year really matters, or if there's some other attribute I should be sorting by, like maybe whether...

I'm building an AR-15 for high-power service rifle competition. I purchased a Krieger 1 in 7.7 DCM HBAR barrel from Brownell's for the project. The barrel has a "min spec" 223 Remington chamber. The description on Brownell's web site mentions that this barrel has the "ideal" twist rate for 69...

My home range for high-power league shooting is only 200 yards. We use reduced targets for prone and prone rapid. I'm going to be using a newly pinned removable sight on my flat-top upper next season. I plan to zero the elevation by adjusting the front post to hit the X at 200 yards with a 6...

Just wondering... Were WW2 Garands issued mostly with the M1 cotton web sling, or the 1907 pattern leather sling? It seems leather is more popular among service rifle high power shooters. I see mostly the 1907 pattern sling on Garands in Hollywood movies. But my CMP Garand came with a web...

I picked up an M1 Garand from the CMP recently, and while looking for info about rear sight dis-assembly I came across: http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/striphtml/detailstripsight3.html and I really like the way the rear sight markings were much more readable on the rifle in those pictures...

I own a FEG PA-63 which as far as as I can discern, has a 1959 acceptance stamp. While I don't yet consider myself a "collector", I was talking with a guy at my gun club (who definitely is a collector) about it (he owns an R-61). He told me that FEG pistols were "not made in Hungary". He said...

I picked up a "CMP Special" M1 a couple of months ago. It's got a new match grade .308 barrel, new black walnut furniture and all other parts are either refurbished, refinished or new. I was spending some time with it today before putting it away for the winter and after about 25 rounds, the...