BenT wrote:Browning 1895 in 06 and one of the most accurate leverguns I have.

Care to share the loads you are using. I have not found one my rifle likes

I bought a browning 06 in 87 as a getting out of the Army present to myself. Like the rifle but have never figured out a load it likes. Shoots 5 - 6 inches at 100 yards. Dads old 32 special with iron sights shoots about the same size group at 200 yards with reloads or leverevolution factory. Any of ...

Dad's old 32 special 26 inch Octo Barrel 1907 as I remember will still shoot 4 Inches with my 61 yo eyes at 200. If you look with equal bullet weights the 32 special is 100 FPS or so faster than the 30/30. Really funny the performance difference is the same as 308 vs 3006. 32 special is considered e...

My two favorite American WWII radial engined fighters: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/republic-p47-thunderbolt.jpg Grumman F6F Hellcat http://www.2blowhards.com/F6F%20Hellcats.jpg What is kinda amazing depending on the model the P47, P-38 and Corsair could go...

Dads old 32 spec 1907-08 mfg 26 inch octo barrel seems to like Hornady Leverevolution factory ammo. Anyone out there reloading with this rather new Hornady powder? How much is the secret to the Leverevolution ammo due to the pointy 165 grain (lighter than 170) bullet and how much to some kind of tai...

Anshutz super match of some type
trapdoor springfield
73 win or clone
berdan sharps
03 Springfield
SMLE or other .303 brit
k98
1917 us enfield
CSharps or Shilo cal undetermined
.338 win mag
86 win or clone
Baikal Double rifle or other under 10K
Perhaps an african caliber bolt gun

Have an old rossi puma 44 mag carbine slugs measure .434 - .435 depending vs .429. Keyholes at 25 yards with some loads and at 50 with darn near everything. Got some deparado soft cast bullets. 6 Inch groups and round holes at 100 yards. Not exactly match winning accuracy but much better than not be...

Torn between the spotting rifle (50 Cal short) on a 106 recoiless rifle or the German 1980s vintage panzer faust. Much like our 90 mm recoiless a real lauten boomer.

Shot out one barrel on an M1A and a whole lot of ammo on another champions choice install douglas NM heavy barrel. Never had a problem with extraction or feeding using Hornady standard new dimension 308 dies, mosty used lake city reg gi or lake city nm brass.

Have used quite a bit of AA2 and AA5 with loads as small as 3 grains for 32 ACP small ball spherical powders meter really well. Back when I started using the stuff it was really cheap compared to IMR or other brands.

Interesting about the dash cartridges. Most the -xx is a powder charge, year as in the 30-06, the parent cartridge as in 7-08 and 25-06 and 22-250, but the 250-3000 savage meant the .250 bullet going down range at 3000 fps (actually 257 bullet, we measure the bore size prior not max diameter after g...

Having no personal knowledge but have heard in the city limits of a major AZ city a box trap, a boom box playing rock and roll of your choice, a chipmunk rifle and cb caps takes care of the problem when touched off when in contact to the back of the head.

Years ago bought a Lyman T-Mag kit from Midsouth shooter supply. Came with virtually everything I needed. Had a good powder measure, decent beam scale, case lube kit, case neck brushes as i recall, some neck lube mica, loading block. . and maybe even a dial caliper. Brain cells die and it is hard to...

If you really want to cut wood. Use the chainsaw of choice to cut the wood into lenths that you can manhandle on to the carrier of a 36 inch buzzsaw powered by the PTO wheel of an old F12 tractor driving a huge belt. Used to help dad cut up to 10 cords a year keeping the house warm in montana. He wo...

Great, what savage am I looking for if it exists at all Years ago a friend of ours had a savage with rottary mag and a cartridge counter window in 300 savage I would like the same gun in 308. Never have liked the clip loaded savages, think I can unload the rottary mag without shooting myself or some...

The late great skeeter skelton swore by the 44 spec with 240 SWC loaded to 1000 fps. Hobies comments about using full length 44mag case have merit. Think any way you slice it 240 grains at 900 - 1000 fps will change a miscreants outlook rather quickly and renders same quite harmless. Floors could re...

A colt python with a real nice leather police type holster, belt and two boxes of shells for $350.
Had no clue what a python was or what they were worth. The gun alone was worth more than the $350

Back when I lived in Texas the squirrels were so big I had to use my 1895 browning 06

mossberg makes / made great guns, only down side is they don't cost enough to have any serious snob appeal, but put the bullets where the sights are

I've got the 06 version, were I after african lions, TRs Big Medicine would be the ticket.

If you can't make up your mind go for the 30 US aka 30/40 krag

It has been a long time but I made bows for a while about 21 years ago. Used Bingham patterns to make long bows and takedown recurves. Actually shot a doe in Texas with one of my TD Recurves #65 58 in. Gave the bow to a cousin. My favorite bow is a Bear Custom Kodiac TD Recurve with #55 and #70 limb...

Cool enough that I wont complain about the few extra notes that were thrown in.

Ordinarily if it aint the version the Army Corus sings (ya no the one, with just the note writen on the page) I don't like it.

How well will they group?

will they shoot any where near as tight as a full bore bullet?

One son cares not for firearms - possibly brought the wrong baby home from the hospital :wink: The other loves them and gets them all with a caveat. My dad's 32 special has to be handed down to a male blood decendant, so I he does not have a son, the rifle goes to one of my brother's sons or grand s...

Just Jumped on a new Cabelas (Read really a Lincoln Safe) Has electronic lock. 2 Nine volt batteries, One nine volt keeps on board litium battery charged. If nine volt gets low starts beeping, the second 9 volt takes over keeping he lithium charged and the beep beeping. Mfg Rep states the lithium ba...

Who would have thought.
The 32 Spec being .013 larger in diameter, one would think the bullet would lodge in the die.

Those who have tried it seem to swear by it.

We stand to get a whole lot more gun friendly supreme court judges with McCain than we could with either Obama Yo Mama or Hillary.

The old time herseys cocoa instructions work good, always better with half and half or a little creme mixed in to the milk, keep the overall volume the same.

Going to Montana the last week of July and first week of august (fishing and reunion)
Maybe next year either summer or spring, would love to bust some hawgs

If you can stand the stiff recoil spring a makarov is pretty small and the 9x18 is a lot hotter than a 380. Mine eats anything and hits where it is aimed. Sights suck but if you can see them they work.

Get the 44 Spec Dies, a true 44 Mag die will be much to long to crimp 44 specs when the die contacts the shell holder, the 44 Spec die just needs to be screwed out about .1 inches to seat and crimp 44 Mag. I use Nitro 100 for cowboy action loads something less than 5 grains, used Acccurate Arms Data...

Getting one's behind shot out of the sky does not make one a hero, nor does surviving as a POW for a number of years. Turning down a trip home early, hanging in there knowing what is coming, and being tortured repeatedly for having stayed and keeped faith with the other POWs does qualify one as a he...

What about the fighting 69th?