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Might get ran out of here for what im going to ask about but figured this would be the best place to find info on my new rifle. I bought a 1896 Springfield the other day and it appears it has a serious chamber issue. I took it to the range and fired one round and noticed it was a little hard...

Hey all I'm looking at building up a Mosin Nagant and I have been contemplating a 338 of some sort. What I'm looking for is info on any rimmed 338 cartridges. I know there is the marlin express, and I found a few mentions to a 338/348 win ackley that I was thinking would be almost perfect. I can...

Ok so today on a whim i loaded up some 219 zipper with trail boss powder and took it out to the range in the wind and the rain and oh man what a blast. feels like your shooting a 22lr but you can still hit the 200 yard gong consistently. I was getting some pretty good groups too. The wind was...

so im going to try to get a reloading bench set up this summer and im looking at kits and am trying to decide. Ive been helping my dad reload ever since i can remember on a rcbs rockchucker kit and have always had good luck with it but i see i can get a turret kit for not much more. Ill be...

so ive been toying with the ideal of building a 1911. I like the 1911 style of pistols and i have found several sources for frames and then i could mill it to spec and fit all the parts. I know this would be a enormous amount of work and would cost more than a custom pistol from any manufacture...

ok so the more i mess with guns the more i love odd, outdated and wildcatted chamberings. Currently im building a 6.5-06 on a mauser (commonly excepted wildcat) and a 219 zipper on a marlin lever action (not really a wildcat just old and forgotten). Ive also been looking at wildcats based on...

So i was bored and looked at the henry site. I already have a golden boy 22lr and love it and wouldn't mind having a couple of the big boys and one of the 30-30s but i see all the henrys load from the front of the tube. now on the 22lr and maybe even the 357 and 45 i could see this but on a...

so today i broke out the sand paper and messed with my two projects a little, a mauser, and a marlin 336. I'm completely rebuilding both of them and i want to polish the bolt on both guns for the end product. Luckily the Mauser bolt isn't pitted so it will just be a matter of making it shiny...

So i was in the farm-ranch supply store that has a sporting goods section the other day looking at guns and they had probably 30 Mosin Nagant rifles on the shelf for like 90 bucks apiece. Now i know this is going to rile the history purist but is there any reason why one wouldn't make a decent...

so a while back i bought a factory marlin barrel in 219 zipper so that i could rebuild an old marlin 30-30 i had. The 30-30 was given to my dad and was pretty beat up and the barrel was way loose. The 219 barrel fits almost perfect. it lacks about an 1/8 of a turn when screwed in hand tight so...

So im looking for ideals for a long action .22. I have a long action remington 700 action and my dad has a 222 barrel already threaded to fit. Longest .22 ive found is a the 220 swift, dont want to waste a long action on a short little round. So what are options for a long action center-fire .22.

Well a couple weeks ago i ordered a Remington Army from Cabela's I tore it all apart and smoothed what i say needed it and polished it here and there. Still working on fitting the grips but any how finally got to shoot it today. Only got to shoot it for two cylinders because the wind was blowing...

so the other night i was thinking it would be fun to shoot some black powder 38 special loads out of my 357 mag. really wouldn't serve any purpose other than making smoke and experimenting with black powder cartridge a little. My question is would it be safe to fire such loads in a modern gun...

so the other night i ordered a new model army Remington from Cabela's after realizing that anyone with a credit card can buy them. This got me wondering why aren't black powder guns considered fire arms. Im only 20 so im still waiting till i can buy my own pistols even though I've been shooting...

So im just thinking as i have many other projects on my list before i would get to this but i love the elegance of double rifles but i can't afford a cartridge version and im not ready to try and build an action yet. I was thinking that a muzzleloading version would be much easier to build and...

So i am starting a hunting rifle build based on a Mauser 98 action. A member of this forum(RwBeV) is helping with the build as he has built quite a few of these rifles before. It started out as a bare turk Mauser action and so far i have ground and filed the action down as well as we got it...

So ive been wasting time surfing the net looking at guns and cartridges and i got to thinking why is that you never see 22 hornets in lever guns. I have always wanted a hornet ever since i was a little kid. No reason really other than i just wanted one and while most other cartridges will put...

so ive been looking at scopes today and it seems like everything is a 3-9 or 4-12 now. I have always used straight 6 power scopes and they work well for me. Im sure a variable one would be neat for long range or target practice but ill be hunting mostly and would like as few as possibilities to...

So I Am planning on starting a few rifle projects and am need of inspiration. I like classic styling and was thinking of basing a couple rifles on the classic sporters of the great hunters from days gone by. So show me what a high class sporter from the early 1900s would be built like.

So i have always i have always liked the looks of the 1858 Remington Conversion pistols and was thinking about getting one sometime in the future. I know that Uberti/taylor is offering a reproduction but is anyone else? Would appreciate any info on 58 Rem reproductions in 44-40 or 45 Colt.