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I have two Swedes and neither grouped satisfactorily well with 120 gr bullets. They both shine with 140gr pushed by 40+gr of IMR 4831. I tried a variety of powders and none did as well for me as IMR 4831. I have used this powder/bullet combination successfully for target work and deer hunting.

They don't have to license out their patent. They can maintain their exclusive right to produce and market that product.

"but not one company has come out with an equivalent of the fcd." Perhaps the patent has not expired yet.

Your initial reasoning has nearly come full circle with regards to price of components in my area at least. My loads are ~ $1-2.50 a box less than purchased new ammo.

It's so simple a caveman could do it......I have done it the Lo-Tech way for my bolt action rifles and it has worked perfectly well to get me on paper fairly close enough to center without having to expend excessive ammo fine tuning the setting. I have taken a large cardboard box and cut a V...

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"The thing to worry about is your homemade level truly level." In a word, yes. My reloading bench is almost perfectly level throughout with the central portion actually being perfectly level. I laid a level (the type one uses in home building) on the bench and my homemade device on the level...

An ATF that strongly fought FOR Americans' gun rights.

So far I liberated a level from an inexpensive line level. I cut a piece of dowel that fits closely inside a small medicine bottle, drilled a 3/8 inch hole as close to dead center as I could get it with my drill press and glued it inside the medicine bottle. I drilled a corresponding hole in...

"Scope levels are cheap." Yeah, but that's not the point. Never underestimate the amount of toil a skinflint will endure to save 50 cents. :) My scopes are mounted correctly. One I mounted in 1982 and the other in 1996 and they remain spot on. This is something I wanted to try to...

Somewhere I had come across an article of how a person used a small pill bottle, and a level vial that fit over a scope adjustment knob to help the user to avoid canting the scope when shooting. I did not have time to read the article and did not bookmark it. Does anyone have a lead on what I...

No mag dumps, too old for such tomfoolery and too poor!

I pulled my AR from the safe last night and shortened the stock a few clicks and tried to adopt a stance like Mr. Verity, checking my reflection in the car window and it felt as if I had better control. This was just positioning practice in my garage, no live fire. I otherwise had just always...

Does anyone think the anti-gun stance of the NM governor will have any bearing on this case such as influencing the prosecutor's vigor in this case and seeking the maximum penalty if found guilty?

" The actor must inspect the firearm prop immediately upon receipt, verify it's properly loaded with prop ammunition, and must not allow the firearm prop to leave his possession at any time before returning it to the armorer." ^^^^^ THAT. The last person handling the weapon is responsible for...