Recent content by snookdock

My final comments and Iraq men review weapons I joined the NRA as a life member in 1973. I do not remember when I started buying it off of magazine racks. Please do not tell me you cannot buy it from stores, this was then. Perhaps in over 35 years, this was my source of the "kernal of...

1953 S&W MISSING I bought a Detroit PD surplus .38 with some kind of shiny surface at a gun show circa 1995. I gave it to my 40 year old Nephew. He just told me it is missing. Most likely one of his teenage son's "friends" took it in a party. Should he report it missing? He can't say...

I did it, trust me quote "I find it hard to accept you actually managed to get the thicker, fatter, cartridge case to actually fully chamber in the tight chamber of a caliber .30/06 Browning BAR rifle. An out of battery ignition can be a truely nasty thing in rifles of this caliber range."...

thank you for clearing this up It is amazing how things change in just 115 years. I heard this over thirty years ago and the person who told me may have gotten it from his grandfather. Time dims all things. Ken

This could have been told to me by the guy who said This could have been told to me by the guy who said to go ahead and try a .308 in a .30-06. Sometime ago I was had. However I poke fun, I don't play jokes with a man's tools or his life.

I read that in the bad times of WWII, Germany rethroated some rifles to accept a larger bullet. I do not remember the sizes, but I recall something like using .311 ammo in a .308 bore. The idea was to give the bigger bullets a running start and thereby avoiding a blow up. If true, it...

7.62 NATO in .30-06 myth ?? I heard this sometime in the early 1970's. I'm not quite so stupid as to try this out of whole cloth. Stupid, yes, but someone told this to me. Has anyone ever heard this as, say, an urban myth?

Thank you I was not sure if it was a bad idea. Now I know. That still leaves the question: Did the military want an emergency back up in case older weapons were out of ammo?

I heard that the military would not accept the 7.62 NATO unless it fired fine in their .30-06s. I tried this once in a Browning BAR semi-auto deer rifle. The casing came out elongated, but worked fine. You have to carefully fit the case under the extractor. I was going to show this stunt...

When I was 16, I mixed up the 3 chemicals and made some black powder. It was very fine, likely FFFF as I know it now. There is a "corning process" to make it bigger grains. I shoot black powder very little. Just a few hundred grains in deer season. With the cost of powder and $20 +...

In 1971 my friend Ron shot a young deer with a Federal .30-06, 180 gr that hit a front leg bone, did not expand, and ended up bent in a hind roast. In 1973, with a new box of 180s, he shot at 200 yd a 180 pound, dressed, 10 pt. buck and had quite the opposite action. The bullet fragmented...

Jordan buck The massive Jordan buck was taken with a .25-20 The 9mm can be better than that. I used to shoot deer at 7 feet with a weak bow. It can be done.

Leading the barrel Leading the barrel: To deposit lead in the grooves. Common in very high speed .357s with soft lead bullets. To Byron: I am a "Red Warrior". I served from July 1968 to April '69. I was in B co. 1/12 4th inf. div. We chased the 66th NVA regiment until they caught us...

I heard you can make a .45 ACP "shotshell" from .30-06, .308 or simiiar that cycles the M1911 and has a OAL the same as loaded .45 ACP. Anyone know how?

reply to Brian or any married man I should have said US Army (ret) I am giving my wife a new Ruger® compact for her 50th birthday, Shhh. Its a secret. I still don't know how to give it to her well before Nov 20 when the season starts and still have it be a birthday gift on Dec 10...