Recent content by jbauch357

I agree there is no universal standard, what I'm getting at is that people need to look "through" their targets (regardless of shooting position) and see where their bullet is going to impact down range - then adjust height accordingly so that rounds are delivered into a berm rather than the...

The range I'm a board member of is having some issues regarding people placing their targets: - Too high - resulting in rounds going over our berms - Too low - resulting in rounds hitting the ground and skipping over our berms I'm looking to the community here to see if they have a free to...

As the cone continues to erode it will eventually open up so much that the spray will chew away at the frame. I sent a ~13 year old GP100 back to Ruger for the same but more severe forcing cone erosion, just to see what they thought and if it could be repaired. They said it could not be...

We hunted with Jager Pro and had a great time. Night time hunts with NVG scopes on top of Remington R-25 rifles... pretty awesome. The local accommodations at the lodge were great too. Mossy Creek where they take the hogs for butchering and taxidermy is, well, a complete joke. They were...

I had a CO2 canister over pressure in the sun and explode a couple feet in front of me when I was in early elementary. It went off in a grenade like fashion and sent a half dozen of us to the hospital with shrapnel (mostly pebbles from the dirt blast) wounds. Ever since then I'm awfully damn...

Congrats on the deer! I repeatedly had the same experience with NBT expanding way too fast (on mule and black tail deer) and moved to Hornady Interlock which has been perfect in every way.

I don't reload because I enjoy it as a hobby, I reload because it saves me a substantial amount of money over buying factory ammo - and it is a good way to kill time and do something productive when otherwise I'd be sitting in front of a computer drinking beer, like right now...

If you are fine with a bobbed hammer go S&W 638. Double action when you need it, single action when you want it - with a nice little bobbed checkered hammer that won't snag anything and is just big enough to cock manually. They're awful sturdy too, ran mine over with my car. Left a bit of a...

Not an autoloader, but I did wear out a Ruger GP100. Had the thing for about 13 years, put thousands of rounds though it. I started getting a painful amount of blowback from it and found that the forcing cone was fracturing and blowing away in chunks. It was also at the same time chewing...

You can't find a cheaper gun to tinker with, and they are about the cheapest centerfire rifle out there to feed - so why not? For years I found no reason to own a Mosin, then I bought one so my PSL had something to share ammo with, now I have 4 of the stupid things. People aren't lying when...

My steel and the steel I maintain for our local range is 1/2" AR500. It should be considered the minimum thickness for anything you want to actually hold up to punishment or continual rate of fire. Black tip hardened steel core armor piercing .308 will take small chunks out of it, .50BMG API...

Just from how much I love my pre-safety Marlin 1894C I say go Marlin. You might get lucky like me and find one for $350 that looks really rough with beat up wood, bent sights and a couple decades of gunk on it... But cleans up into a beautiful specimen after a stock refinish, skinner sights...

I can hand my Saiga 7.62x39 with POSP to a novice shooter and have them ring 20" steel at 200 yards all day long, put somebody more familiar with rifles behind it and they'll hit ~80% on an 8" steel at 200 yards. I'm sure some shot out rusted war relic is going to be pie plate accurate at...

I bought a sub2k specifically to go aside my GLOCK 9mm pistols. Spent the time to add on all the aftermarket goodies including the KelTec quad rail up front.... Then shot it twice and never picked it back up, it hasn't seen range time in years. The trigger is awful beyond description, and the...

I've got a pre-safety Marlin 1894C which has never stopped impressing me with how well it functions and how accurate it shoots, .38sp have also been fine in it.