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@JimKirk - i was just reading back through this old thread and saw that you said you are loading 71 grains for a 270 WSM? I thought the max in the manual was 70. are you actually loading above spec (your perogative) or are you using something other than the hodgdon reloading data?

Thanks for all the responses! It's lots of fun to read the input. I will echo a couple of you in saying that if I were to go shopping for a "movie gun" intentionally, it would likely be a Colt SAA. Maybe throw in some Hand of God grips... Course that will likely happen when I have money to burn...

won an auction yesterday for an S&W Model 13-1. I'd been eyeing a .357 for a while and I've enjoyed shooting my wife's Model 10-5, so I figured the beefed up twin brother would be a good choice. In my obligatory binge of excited reading about the gun I just acquired I found out that not only...

I recently acquired an AMT Lightning 25/22 (a 10/22 clone). It is equipped with a butler creek folding stock and I've added a magpul tactical barrel band. I also have a basic truglo red dot sight and a dovetail adapted picatinny rail in the mail to mount that scope (as the receiver on the AMT...

7mmb, thanks for that... what you're saying does make a lot of sense. my AV for those loads was right around 2950, so your'e not far off. a couple of things i'm not doing to my cartridges right now that i've considered are: - flash hole deburring - primer pocket uniforming - weighing/grouping...

thanks for the advice, fellas... as for my groups... at 100 yards, a three shot group will be about 1" or so...this takes into account the fact that these are lead-tip groups and for hunting i will load up Nosler Ballistic tips, which should group a little smaller due to the greater consistency...

Hello, everyone! I'm up against something that has me stumped. I e gotten pretty meticulous with my hand loads for my rifle but the variance in velocity still seems way outside the acceptable range. I.e., last week I loaded 18 rounds using 67.5gn of hodgdon retumbo under a 150gn Speer lead tip...

hello all! i'm a lifetime shooter/hunter (IOW, very conscious of safety) and i recently picked up a couple of low-end daisy bb guns (buck model) for use with the group of teenagers i work with... a few of them have shot guns before, but many of them have not. i'm trying to come up with some...

slamfire... so are you indicating that you trim the cases to allow .015" of clearance? i'm seating all of my bullets .01" off the lands so i'm right at or dang close to factory spec. plenty of room in my magazine. bgr... i trim all of my cases to within .001" of each other. consistency there...

when you say you're taking revolvers for SD in bear country, i hope you're referring to your S&W 500 :-)

in the last little bit i've been getting really picky about my hand loading. i shoot a Winchester M70 Super Shadow chambered in 270WSM. i'm shooting a 150gn Nosler BT over 68ish grains of Hodgdon Retumbo (haven't tuned it in just yet). SAAMI puts the brass at 2.1" in length, but i've surmised...

new to the forum... hey guys, (and gals, i presume) just joined in with you mostly because of my interest in hand loading. i've been learning a lot by reading and have a few questions i haven't been able to clear up. my main interest in firearms is for hunting, though i take self-defense very...