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I am strictly a target shooter (paper, falling plates, etc.) and have a few handguns I shoot on a regular basis. The group I shoot with are pretty good short range shooters but we were never able to get any good consistency with my previous 9mm. I looked at a lot of 9mm handguns recently and I...

A few days ago I installed a Timney trigger in my M&P 15 and went out a shot a few hundred rounds. I'm elated with the crisp 3-lb. trigger. Our day ended with a failure to fire and when checking for the problem I found that the hammer/trigger pin had fallen out and the other one was coming out...

I am not very mechanically inclined but I do my best. Took apart my M&P 15 for it's first cleaning with help from YouTube. Everything went fine until I tried to put the charging handle back on. It just won't slide in easy like all the videos show. I googled the problem and searched around for...

OK, so I've had my M&P 15 for a couple months and have been working up loads for it. Bought some PMC 55 gr. ammo so I could break in the rifle and reuse the brass. The spent cartridges would eject to about 4-5 o'clock and 6-8 feet away (or so). On my first handload tests (55 gr. SP) the brass...

So I ordered 500 PMC once-fired 223 commercial brass online. I asked in an email if they had crimped primers and was told "no, but some of them have the red sealer paint". I have used these in other calibers so I wasn't worried. Well, when I got them I could not prime them because they were...

So a friend and I go out to the range to do some shooting and for him to sight-in his hex receiver 91/30. We put it on my lead sled and eventually got it on paper. We used my new front sight adjustment tool to get the windage and then worked on the elevation. As is common, it shot high so we...

Shot a friends pretty new Springfield 45 acp with some ammo that I loaded (as we always do). Once-fired Starline brass with CCI primers and two different proven loads (Bullseye and 231). In the 50 rounds of 231 there was no FTF but the Bullseye had 6 out of 50. Later we refired those rounds and...

I was watching a YouTube video of a guy shooting USPSA matches and he shot 5 or 6 mags per stage and was moving all over the range. The ground all around him was littered with 45 or 40 or whatever size empties. Do you guys retrieve your own casings after each stage or after the match? I reload...

I was watching "Have Gun Will Travel" on Encore Westerns the other day. Paladin mentions to someone that his gun has a 2-ounce trigger pull. He said it was a hair trigger and you breathe on it and it goes off. Now I had a pro trigger job on my Ruger Blackhawk 44 mag a few years ago. I used it in...

Just picked up a beautiful used Ruger 10/22 Target with a mil-dot scope. Took it out to the range with some Mini-mag ammo that I had. Fired off 10 shots at 25 yards and the group was one jagged hole about the size of a quarter. The group was about 2 inches high and four inches to the right of...

I like to use 158 gr. swc in my 38 special SAA for plinking. Been using 3 gr. of Trail Boss and it's nice but how low can I go for a real "powder puff" load? I'd just like to try it on 10 yard steel plates. What do you SASS guys do?

I have a 1942 Tula 91/30 that has a 4 digit serial number. It's a number, a letter, and 34. On the butt, bottom of mag and bolt are just the "34" part, not the whole serial number. Is this a matching number rifle? It would be cool if it was but not a huge deal. Just curious. None of the Mosin...

OK--I've looked at all the YouTube videos and they helped a lot on the cleaning and disassembly. Now I am having the problem that a lot of people have....getting the mainspring latch assembly to "click" in there. I've gone so far as to run a 1/4" wooden dowel in to see if it's lined up. It is...

Found a website for once-fired brass and placed an order, mostly to save some money. Order came and everything looked good for the three pistol calibers I ordered. When I re-cleaned and de-primed my 45 acp brass I found out that of the 285 I bought, 182 of them were small pistol primer size. I...