Search results for query: *

gun myths For me the most annoying, and common, are in movies and TV where the good guy picks up a gun to chase after or engage the bad guy....and never even checks to see if it's loaded, on safe or whatever, never looks for exta mags (or clips, if you will) or ammo. Getting hold of the gun is...

IOR scope I don't have experience with the scope you are looking at but I do have experience with an IOR 1.1X4X26. It is a strong and well built scope with great optics but one vexing problem, parallax and lots of it. When I first got this scope it was on a .223 rifle and I didn' notice any...

I was reading of a young lady interviewing the Finnish sniper White Death and she asked him if it was difficult to shoot all those Russians. He responded (I paraphrase here) " yes, they would bob and weave and duck for cover"

Manyirons, I got the BP for free, all I had to do was pour it out of a drum. I can't recall the name on the drum but it was painted black and may have had Dupont on it somewhere. My alloy was 18 lbs wheelweights to 2 lbs linotype. I haven't slugged the bore, but I tried Cerrosafe once and...

Thanks for that info, Manyirons. Unfortunately I went to the range before reading your post and fired my reloads. As I had gotten good results with smokeless I was puzzled when my first group at 50 yds was 7in. I wasn't even on paper at 100 yds. My first 10 rds used virgin Bell brass. Then I...

Thanks for the welcome, Third Rail. Seems like not too many are into shooting BP in 43 Mauser. I'll make up some lube soaked wads as the thread recommends. I've gotten good accuracy with smokeless loads, it will be interesting to see what BP will do.

Hi folks, Looking for your info on good loads for 43 Mauser in a 71/84 rifle with FFg. My bullet is a 340 grain from a Rapine mold sized .446 with SPG lube. I have read the old military round used 77 grains FFg with a 385 grain bullet. When I vibrate down the FFg in a case, stick in a...