I use the latest (6th?) Lyman Cast Bullet manual a lot and with Hodgdon powders being the main ones available these days, their online load data is awful handy. I just noticed recently that there's a link on the Hodgdon site where you can request specific data but haven't tried it out for myself. S...

My renewed interest in a big bore lever gun has me burning up the interwebs looking at components, ballistics, etc One thing that I have noticed is how many dead links there are for things like gunsmiths and cast bullets that were going concerns back in the day Anyway, back on topic: All my reloadin...

The boss and I were stopped behind a vehicle trying to turn left on a busy 2 lane road, and 3 people passed us both using the right shoulder. No manners, no sense, not much of nothing in their heads. I asked the wife when was the last time she saw a car pulled over and getting a ticket for ANYTHING,...

No, absolutely not, even with a Ring camera and stuff I go to the door with a custom Glock 19, an extra G17 mag, and that is just to fight my way back to the bedroom and the SBR with a can and a 30 round Magpul with 28 rounds The boss has a G26 with a 2 shot extension in the side cubby of her reclin...

Thanks again for the welcomes and the advice, and I feel that you guys are right in steering me towards a "modern" .45 lever gun. I am going to shift my research towards something that will digest my loads on occasion and still be light and handy. I haven't looked at Marlin guns since my o...

Thank you all for the warm welcome and all the good info to get me started I guess it would help my cause to tell you what I had initially WANTED to do, vs what I see now as the probable reality of what I CAN do following the recent research I have done First off I am not a CAS shooter, just a guy w...

Hello folks New member here, hailing from Palmer Alaska, and I have a lot of catching up to do I am 70 years young and have had my dad's Model 94 in .25-35 around me all my life so I am not exactly new to lever guns, although I am researching the purchase of a modern 1873 Winchester/Miroku in either...