Search results for query: *

A couple of Saturday’s ago I got to do my annual “Cub Scout Rangemaster” day. My wife runs Cub Day Camps for our district, so guess who gets to be rangemaster? Yup. Her spouse. Ran 70+ scouts through 10 shots each at the BB gun range. Groups of 5 (I could only find 5 out of 12 rifles that...

Have any of you traveled overseas with your handgun? I just got back from a trip to Guatemala (1 week service mission to help build a school in a really remote village.) I didn’t take my handgun because I didn’t research early enough. Didn’t think about till almost time to go. So I left...

I have always been of the opinion that Lee equipment was "good enough," until now. I was resizing surplus .308 brass. Which is pretty thick stuff. Broke the back off the part of the press that holds the handle. Anybody deal with Lee customer service before? How are they?

I like these Berry's .45acp. 185gr. HBRN. But I worry that the hollow base increases case volume enough that the powder charge may need to be changed to account for that. I have just used regular 185gr. load data to date, and no problems to date. But I figured it wouldn't hurt to check...

Let’s start a fan club for these fine rifles. They won’t win any beauty contests, but “beauty is as beauty does.” These rifles are: -Accurate. As Col. Whelen said, only accurate rifles are interesting. And they are interesting. -Rugged. Few moving parts. Built like tanks. Great...

Now that whistle pig season is over here in Idaho (think 1/4 scale Prairie Dogs) I am reminiscing about how much fun I had with my Handi-Rifle (an Ultra-Varmit) in .223 this season. Sure, its not as tacticool as my buddy's AR-15 with a can, but it shoots sub-MOA, has a 24" barrel in a short...

Sigh. The things we do for love, and our love of the sport. Yesterday I played rangemaster to 66 Cub Scouts shooting BB guns. Fortunately, not all at the same time. 9 groups of about 7-8 each. This is the first time I have done something like this. My wife is in the Stake Primary...

I want to get some electronic muffs. I nearly always wear a hat when I'm shooting, so I think I need muffs with a behind-the-neck band. Tried on the Peltor Tac-6s with that band, and they seemed to fit fine. But I have heard people bash them for being hard to change the batteries. Are...

A coupla years ago, I inherited a .17 wildcat. .357 mag pistol brass necked down to .17. A great varmit rifle. I've put over 1k rounds through it. (Based on shooting the bag of 1k bullets I inherited with the rifle.) My cleaning regimen has evolved to: -Bore snake every 20-50 rounds or so...

Just kidding. Its an off the shelf P-3AT. But this group got me a little excited. 7 yards, offhand, 6 shots, about one shot per second. I was in the groove. The little pistol is capable of putting the bullets where you want them, once you get used to the slim grip, long trigger, strange sight...

I was loading some pistol rounds on my single stage tonight. It got me thinking that I could save some time if I had a Turret press and could size/decap and flare in one step. So, how handy are those turret presses? Do they save any time on bottleneck rifle presses? I can't see...

Have any of you 7.5 Swiss reloaders ever used "pulled" .308 milsurp bullets? In my never-ending quest to get the cost of plinking rounds down, I want to try it. I made up a dummy round, with a commercial (Speer) 147gr. FMJ, which is supposed to be milsurp spec. To get the round to chamber...

I just acquired a Beeman 650, with a trigger pull approximately 10lbs. Spec from their website is 3.5lbs, so not their best rifle, by any means. Its a non-adjustable trigger. I have done some light home repairs before (replaced extractor fixed a burr in the mag catch of my CETME, fixed...

Cabela's Bargain Cave has it for $88. Lowest I've seen. I'm not looking for anything other than a good plinker. Accuracy must be satisfactory. That's about it. Would you do it?

I'm thinking of getting some pullued milsurp bullets from Hi-Tech Ammo, for plinking rounds for my .308 and .223 rifles. Anybody use them? Is accuracy satisfactory? Or am I gonna wind up trading these away for something more accurate?

Last week, I had my first-ever big game hunt. I have hunted upland birds for years, and varmints, too, but never anything that could account for multiple meals from a single critter ;- ) We had a family reunion in central Florida, so my brother in law (BIL) and I decided to try a guided hog...

I was reviewing some reloading gear I inherited. There were some old Hornet bullets in there. .223 diameter. Modern .223 ammo is .224 diameter. If I shoot these up, am I going to get keyholes and shotgun patterns? Or will they work fine? There are only 23 of 'em, so it wouldn't...

I got the chance to try the Wolf .308 ammo I bought a couple weeks ago. With surplus .308 getting a little rarer lately (yes, I know AIM still has the good South African) I thought I try it as an alternative. This was not the cool new polymer cased stuff, this was the lacquered steel cased...

Anybody tried it? Search only turned up one thread several months ago, when it first came out. There was a comment or 2 on reliability, but none on accuracy. Am I going to be disappointed in the accuracy? Is it a viable alternative to South African surplus .308, which seems the only...

This is only idle musing on my part. But if one were to stockpile ammo mainly to maximize trade value in case civlization went belly up, what caliber(s) would have the greatest demand AND the lowest supply. I'm sure there would be demand for .223 and .7.62 NATO, but there would also be...