Recent content by Tech Ninja

No such thing as too much fireball

Yeah, if you like big fireballs, muzzle blast and recoil then 300 MP is it. The muzzle blast is very intense indoors and if you shoot outdoors the people next to you will move away until you are done firing. Love it. 21 grains behind a 125 grain bullet in a SP101:

I've had a couple of cases split in the last few years but I've never had one fail like this. Must have been a weak spot in the case. It's a Speer .38 Special that has been reloaded 3 or 4 times. I like how it looks like a little bow tie.

Cases were easy to eject. And I've never had flat primers in 357 even with max loads of 300MP. It is odd to have low pressure and flat primers.

No, but the primers were so deformed they looked like little flat top mushrooms when I removed them.

At what point do you decide that a load combination just isn't going to work? I've just started reloading .44 magnum. I like big boom and plenty of recoil. Loading light loads in .44 Magnum doesn't make sense to me so I want maximum (but safe) loads. I shoot lots of .357 Magnum using 300MP, I...

I went to an estate sale and picked up this .44 Magnum brass. Looking at the price sticker of $4.81 I would assume they must be pretty old. Anyone know when this might have been made? Oh and I paid 16 bucks for all three. Can't beat that!

I had the same issue with .38 Special. I think that's because it's designed to work that way. You have to accept maximum flair on the case to get it to make a full throw. The case mouth has to travel all the way up the expander die nose and contact the body of the expander die to get enough...

300-MP muzzle flash? Maybe just a little: That's 21 grains behind a 125 grain .357 bullet. I've fired hundreds of these and no flame cutting at all. But plenty of recoil! And the best part is it knocks all the loose brass out of the ceiling tiles.

Well it is Remington brass! Maybe that's the real problem, I'll have to experiment and see if other brass does the same.

I have been working on a .38 Special load, 4.7 grains of American Select and an X-treme 125 plated bullet, crimped with a taper crimp die. These work great from a GP-100. But when I tried them in an LCR it locked up on the fifth round and I found a bullet rattling around in the cylinder. I...

Here's an interesting less lethal handgun: "The Pogojet is an experimental new weapon that promises a versatile, accurate less-than-lethal solution. The key is a .50 caliber bullet that changes its speed on how far it has to travel, so that the amount of force delivered to the target remains...

So I was cleaning a bunch of brass and decided to add some case polish to the tumbler. The brass was already in the tumbler but that's not a big deal right? Fortunately I inspected the brass after cleaning and found this: I know it would have caused the powder to overflow the case but...

I'm often surprised at how different the experiences different people have. I gave up on lead because of the awful leading I got in all my guns. I tried all the tricks that are supposed to help but nothing did. And once I discovered that Xtreme plated bullets are the same price as lead I...

Interesting article about the oldest M2 machine gun that was still in service: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20151203.aspx Just think, that gun could have served in three or four wars!