Recent content by badgerrr

Got a fresh American Rifleman today and they have a Lever action piece. In it , the author observes that he was unable to bring the iron sights to shoot to point-of-aim with the Ranch Hand. He was shooting the .44 caliber model. I don't have one of these, but have been seriously considering...

The RG 66. It's the single action .22 that I started my handgun career with. Not exactly top of the line, but a good solid revolver for the money a teenager has to pay.

On the subject of the .45lc/410 derringers; I have a load recommendation. This critter is hard to do anything constructive with. It shoots astoundingly high. Tears up your hand like crazy; if it doesn't squibb. But it squibbs 60%-40% of the time with my conventional loads. The most...

Best "Bragging Shot" was hitting a bowling pin at 250 yards with a Ruger Bearcat at a Range north of here. :what: I sure let out a holler after pulling that shot off! :D

"Makes me shy away from reloads and reloading! I would hate to ruin a expensive gun trying to save a few cents buying cheap reloaded ammo! " Every time I hear something like this, I flash-back to the day I opened a spanking fresh pack of Remington 12 gauge rifled slugs only to find one round...

Count me in for being a solid Revolver type. Autos certainly have their application; but for the vast majority of civilians, Revolvers are the cats pajamas. This becomes quickly obvious if you ever plan on reloading. Autos toss brass everywhere. It dings the stuff up and the actual...

Good luck doing any killing work with the .177. You certainly need to maximize your rifle to get that work done right. (I've always been very impressed with the .22s for this job.) I would recommend getting accurate as possible, with a penetrating pellet design. To determine which pellet...

My 5 1/2" bobbed-barrel Ruger Bisley 45 LC. It's the sixgun I grab when I got serious business to attend to. Nothing else I have gives me the confidence of that hogleg. Would hate to lose it. :uhoh:

The headstamp on mine: OFV 02 7.62 M80. I've shot some of this and can observe... Yup...pretty inaccurate Case rim size varies. When trying to fit these cases into my shell holder, the rim is frequently too large to allow it to fit. Have now chosen to not reload these boxer primed...

My wintertime In-the-Woods revolver. A 6 inch Security 6 in Stainless. Still working on my heavy, long range load. But it seems that the little 160gr bullets are a good field compromise. Lemme tell you, them 200gr round nose would be the cats meow for a strictly long range proposition...

I suggest letting your targets advise you on this subject. With a nice, oily barrel - do some serious shooting, from a rest, for accuracy. Then go thru 10 to 20 rounds plinking around (blowing out the oil). Cool barrel for half an hour or so. Then, with the fire dried bore, shoot for...

I bought a 25-3 a number of years after buying my Ruger Blackhawk. Being prudent, I started by thumbing in my Ruger Squirrel loads. That was 10 gr Unique under a cast 230gr round nose. Cases stuck in that S&W cylinder, hard enough, that I had to poke out each case individually with a...

The fact that MY government undertakes this sort of activity, I find highly embarrassing. The Militia - American, Iraqi, Chinese, Mexican, Canadian, New Zealander.....exists for the protection of THE PEOPLE . Only the enemies of The People of the Nation are interested in disarming them...

29%!!! Going the right way but a loooooooooonnnnnnggggggg way to go. :(

My Savage does pretty good with : Lake City cases CCI small rifle standard primers 24gr of IMR 4198 under a 40gr bullet which can be.... Speer 40gr Soft point Hornady 40gr V-max Nosler 40gr BT (Accuracy edge goes to the PolyCarbonate tips, economy edge goes to the Speer Soft...