Recent content by JohnM

Think quail are hard to hit, go after chukkar. I swear I used to average about 2 birds to a box of shells!

Not a whole lot you can do if there's a lot of stuff in the cameras FOV that can move in the wind. I get a lot of pics caused by wind movement no matter how careful I am about placement, even have fast moving cloud shadows trip the camera. Speaking of which, I need to go down and check mine...

Sounds like a question from someone who shouldn't be hunting in the first place. No one should let animals suffer needlessly. Dispatch your game as soon as you can, including fish and fowl.

Some nice pics here, I got this guy on the camera last time I went and got the card.

Good deer and antelope cartridge, I know a lot of guys use it for elk, but rabbits? Usually won't be enough left worth picking up.

RC posted a link to some loads above. Need to be sure and refer to it as the 25-20 SS, totally different animal than the much more common 25-20 WCF. Another place for ammo is here: www.buffaloarms.com/25_20_Single_Shot_Black_Powder_Ammunition%20_it-157971.aspx?CAT=4441

Don't rechamber an original 25-20 SS!!!! There never were that many. Sell it for mucho bucks, or shoot it. Do some googling, everything is available, even ammo if to want to pay. Lot of my old friends who did BPC shooting liked it.

25-20SS is a pretty obscure old cartridge. You can still find ammo and components though.

He's a washed up has been. Hardly worth notice.

All those round trays worked fine for everybody's primer boxes till Federal came along with that ridiculously oversized one.

Win 92 25-20.

3 thou?, that's a little more like it.

3 tenths ?

Be interesting to know just what the actual case length is for # 1,2, and 3; and just what the actual OAL is for each one. All 3 bullets are obviously seated differently.

Be pretty unusual to have enough case length variation on something like a 44 Mag to cause problems of crushing the case when crimping, especially with lead bullets. Proper position of the crimp groove along with correct crimp in a correctly adjusted die will go a long way to avoiding this...