Recent content by Texas Pride

There we go RC! After confirming that the shoulder was pinching, I readjusted the die again, this time to a point where the lever binds and is hard to lift back up. Now the cases extract easily and I can commence putting together some range fodder. I knew this problem could only be solved with...

Well, I adjusted my die as prescribed, and the resulting case still sticks. It shows the same striations down the body, just below the shoulder. I'm really starting to suspect that my dies are just not tight enough... But then, .001 difference in body diameter shouldn't be enough to cause...

Well I picked up a box of RTB ammo, and after talking to the shop owner he gave me one round of Remington UMC from his personal supply so I would have one to pull without disassembling the game load (he was out of the cheap stuff for sale). All have chambered fine, as expected, eliminating the...

My dies are set all the way down so that they contact the shellholder well before the lever arm is all the way down (the lever pull is easy enough that I prefer the shorter stroke) so I don't know how to adjust it any further down. I'm headed to the store in a few minutes so I will grab a box of...

I'll start by saying that I am not firing any of these until I determine the cause of the sticking, in hopes of avoiding a mass outcry of simply "Don't do it!!!" I have a new S&W M&P15 chambered in 300 BLK and I've loaded up some plinker rounds to try out at the range, forming from .223 Rem...

Thanks Gordon and Devonai for confirming this for us. It's a shame, as finding a cylinder for my Colt has not gotten any easier in the 5 years since I inherited it. But I appreciate you saving me the trouble of buying an incompatible part.

Years ago I posted on THR and elsewhere about my 1917 needing a new cylinder (it is a Colt). Another member has found me and has a S&W 1917 cylinder he is offering to sell me. As neither of us have handled both the Colt and the S&W 1917s, we don't know if the parts are interchangeable. We...

Sound advice. I'm not sure about the throat length, but that's a great point. If I remember right, that's why the 6.8 SPC II chambers can handle the hotter loads, because they lengthened the throat to give the powder more room to expand before the bullet gets caught up in the rifling. If I end...

Yeah it's definitely more of a want than a need. I do have a softspot for calibers that most folks aren't familiar with (I recently had a friend argue with me that there's no such thing as a .41 magnum and so my revolver must be a .44mag. Fun times). I've taken plenty of whitetail with the 7mag...

Thanks for the reply. That does make sense. Weak loads for old rifles is a common occurrence, and one that makes sense here. Is that the only hypothesis? I'm no stranger to loading older cartridges to higher pressures for use only in modern, strong actions. Agreed. In this case, loads are...

The following could apply to any cartridge and its Ackley counterpart, but I'm especially interested in the .280 Rem chambering: So I've been looking at the .280 Remington lately, since I like the .270 Win but already handload for the 7mm Rem Mag (same bullets). Whether the Ackley Improved...

If it's the type of indoor range that uses the trolly to move the target out, I see no need for a cold range. In fact, I've never seen such a range go cold. Just make it clear that no one moves onto or away from the firing line without clearing their firearms of ammunition and either casing them...

And I'm pretty sure that neither Congress nor the BATFE cares what the forefathers cared about. But the Courts lately seem like they might, so the future might bring some improvement to this part of the law.

The same could be said of the biathalon. In fact, that's my theory of what happened to the yettis. They were murdered by all those canadians you see skiing down mountains with rifles, shooting at things willy nilly. Yet another race of beings done in by the evils of the slide-by-shooting...

That is an excellent point Justin. I don't think it's the same thing as BATFE acknowledging any sporting purpose for detachable boxes, but it does provide some hope that they aren't calling them "unsporting." I'm not sure what practical difference that will make in their decision though. It...