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I think we are already a reloading forum, with some politics and some life info mixed in. Kinda' nice combination.

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Just for grins I thought I'd see if QuickLoad would show any loads giving a decreased velocity with increasing barrel length. Nope -- even Doc's 9mm Luger loaded with heavy bullets and Bullseye powder is still getting a couple extra fps per inch at the 30" length level according to QL. Same for...

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What gets me is that these amazing surgeons (at least the ones around these parts) wouldn't utter the least opposition to the vaccine mandates and other stupidities of the past three years. Here in the Soviet Socialist State of Orygone we are still required to wear the dumb mask when we go into the ...

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suicide, especially conspicuous self-violent versions, as a hate crime against the survivors. Not in every case of course. But the losers are the families. It would be way more considerate to just disappear oneself, but I don't know of any. † I hadn't thought of that Grizz -- sure, the firearms rou...

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My local news web site, being CNN affiliated, likes to run gun-control related articles. So I was just perusing the latest which summarized state-by-state data for the years 2017 through 2021. 209,000 total deaths for the five year period, so a bit over 40,000 per year. Interesting to me that homici...

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I've never had problems -- seems instantaneous. Just tried it to see how things are today and it spit out the info immediately. I use Duck Duck Go.

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Well dang No.7, I'll bet the FBI has stepped in to have you "deplatformed". If we never hear from you again we'll just figure you are on a Guantanamo vacation.

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I shoot cast bullets almost exclusively. But invariably when I go to a jacketed bullet it is easier to get a good load and that load will generally outshoot my good cast bullet loads by a significant margin. From a bench rest of course. Once I'm on my hind legs it is real hard for me to tell the dif...

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Here are my favorites for wandering through the hills. 7 to 8 pounds. I have a few lighter and a few heavier but most of mine fall in this 7 to 8 or a bit over range. I always thought it interesting that a 20# overweight guy with 10 pounds of lunch/water/etc. in his day pack could get in a lather ab...

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Well... QL thinks that 24 grains of Lil' Gun would get you 1750 fps for a very nice load if those are gas checked bullets, or drop back to 18 grains for 1400 fps if they are plain base. Pressures 24k psi for the "hot" load or 13k psi for the mild, which is a range I have happily used Lil' ...

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The U.S. Forest Service (or at least that office of it) is totally stoopid. In a previous lifetime I worked for the darn gummint and my job would have been to get those cattle off the range (under the grazing regulations they are trespass cattle, not feral cattle). If I thought it was a bigger job t...

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In 32/20 the neck is a little longer than the others and turns out to be just fine for the 100 to 115 grain bullets I load. I hadn't worried about neck length in 44/40 as the 200 grain bullet I use barely comes below the bottom of the neck and wouldn't expose any lube groove. Being a fan of carbide ...

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Man oh man, I'll take one of those new 1894's in 44/40 with the spare 38/40 barrel. 26" should be just right for both. And maybe a 32/40 with spare 38/55 barrel wouldn't be anything to turn away, either.

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Well that's a blast from the past! I don't think I ever did have any data for the Herter's powders. I have 100 and 103 here; should probably figure out something to use them up in while they are still fresh (less than 50 years old). Hmmm.... well, maybe not much over 50 years old.

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I probably will never load black powder in my 38/40 but I certainly did enjoy Harry O's write-up. You can tell that Harry was a real skookum handloader and a student of the art, ready to "make it work". No, I'm pretty fond of my 38/40 smokeless loads and the lack of clean-up requirements t...

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Within the last few days I had read that "they" had been having trouble getting folks to take the bi-valent booster, but that now the FDA is recommending it be an annual event that you take at the same time as your flu vaccine the uptake has been better and we are up to 16% of us that have...

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Oh to be a kid again! I do envy those folks who can be so effective with the wonderful tang sights that are to be had these days. But I fear those days are past for my species of eyeball: since discovering that my eye has lost its ability to "automatically center" the front sight in the pe...

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I'm a revolver guy but some time ago I got a "deal" on a Kimber 1911 (one of the smaller models). What a sweety! Made me look like a better shot than I am. But I took a daughter out shooting and she liked it so much she exercised a "daughter's right to claim" and it left my posse...

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You may be OK from a technical standpoint in your "straightwall" state but I'd think you should feel some shame about thinking of using such a big powerful cartridge against the likes of the hapless whitetails thereabouts.

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Might have been good you were out of the small pistol primers Bill. For using W296 the small rifle (or small pistol magnum) primer is what you want. Years ago I ignored my reloading book's advice to go to the magnum primer when using those ball powders such as W296 and H110 and I got a couple of &qu...

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I had a Marlin 336SC Zipper for awhile . I used it as a two shooter since I loaded Nosler 60 grain Partitions for it . One in the pipe and one in the Mag tube . Thing actually shot fairly well . I’d wanted to kill a deer with it but never did before I liquidated it . That's why it should be the old...

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I've used both the IMR and the Hodgdon versions in the past. Couldn't tell a dime's worth of difference between them. Have been using RL7 instead for a few years since I got a "good deal" on a couple of kegs.

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Not to mention the .22 Savage Hi-Power (aka "Imp). Yep, also real similar, but the "Imp" case would be fully as long as the 30/30 case and have a longer neck than we see in the picture. To go along with a .228 diameter bullet. That's a 219 zipper made from a 30/30 case and doesn't lo...

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I can't testify about "handiness" -- I'm a fellow who shoots mostly off-hand and I therefore am quite fond of that 24" octagon bbl. As for using the cut-off portion in a revolver I would avoid that because the rifle makers use a stoopid slow twist for rifles so that they won't handle ...

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Bill we know how you operate: by the time you get it changed to half-mag (yeah, I also like the look of 'em that way) you'll be bored with the rifle and sell it. Go ahead and shoot a few boxes of ammo through it so you'll at least have shot it before sending it on down the road. When you sell it you...

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If some catastrophe resulted in my being limited to just one pistol powder -- well I'd just go ahead and eat my gun because life wouldn't hardly be worth living anymore.

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The ankle wasn't broken and she apparently didn't do damage to the surgery. But of course it took about 4 hours of waiting around in different rooms of the ER to get 15 minutes of information. Ankle must be pretty danged sore as she surely doesn't want to put any weight on it. Got her a walker so sh...

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Grizz is on the road headed for warmer climes, and we had arranged to meet up as he came through Prineville. Not much more than an hour from his arrival I got a call from oldest daughter -- her mom (my wife) had taken a fall and maybe broken an ankle. Wife is just a bit over a week post back surgery...

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When I was 10 years old my friend Les, who lived on the adjoining ranch, was diagnosed with Leukemia. As a reward his folks gave him the Savage 22-over-410 model, which all us boys considered the very finest of the fine. He and I greatly enjoyed his new weapon, and one day found a large skunk occupy...

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https://www.alliantpowder.com/getting_started/safety/safety_notices.aspx#:~:text=Blue%20Dot%C2%AE%20should%20NOT%20be%20used%20in%20the,appreciate%20your%20understanding%20and%20cooperation%20in%20this%20matter. Now that's interesting Ray! In the 357 I have happily shot my little 135 grain cast/gc ...

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Dang Doc, as a fellow who has several "favorite recipes" that feature a compressed stack of two different powders, you had me worried there!

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In the process of getting a gun and a load to shoot our "Little Q" match wherein we try to hit targets out to 600 yards with a pistol-cartridge levergun, I have come to appreciate the challenge. So far I have exactly one (1) gun and load that has a prayer of getting hits on the 600 yard bu...

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CowboyTutt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:29 pm I thought I had finally found a mold maker who could do this design, but I may have been mistaken. Waiting to hear back. -Tutt

Well dang, Andy. A bunch of us want to see you do this thing. Was Tom at Accurate Moulds not able to do the job? I'd have sure thought he could get 'er done.

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I'm guessing you are talking about cottontails, shooting them sitting still. Yep, light 38 loads are nice for that though I go ahead and put mine in a 357 case because my rifle feeds 'em better that way. But if you talking about shooting the speedy jack rabbit (my all-time favorite target) the sub-s...

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Gentleman, I have a question and as I don't cast bullets, please excuse my ignorance. I was just wondering at what temp do you bake this coating at and for how long, and how does that affect bullet hardness? Lets say you harden your bullets to BHN of 20-22, then you coat them and bake them at 30 mi...

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That'll certainly thump whatever it connects with! I looked at it in QuickLoad and QL thinks your 33 grains should get around 1525 fps at 35k psi; the 3 grains about 1300 fps at 20k psi. And I have no idea how close QL is to reality in this cartridge. If your "range lead" is as soft as min...

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Hey Earl, looks promising! Who makes it? Spec's please! Inquiring Cowboys want to know!!! :D -Tutt or Andy to you, God Bless Brother! As you've probably realized by now Andy, this is the sight taken off an old Springfield '03 during a sporterization project. Of course I'll have to do a little cutti...

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This eBay find came in the mail today.

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Having discovered what a wonderful sight they put on the Springfield 1903 I thought I'd like one on a levergun. Now to decide which one!

I'm kinda' thinking the Marlin Cowboy, 38/55.

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First 3 at 50. That looks promising crusty! Would a Lee 'Factory Crimp' die work for 38-40 (I mean the 'rifle type' not the 'pistol type')...? Doc, you'll be happy to learn -- the FC die for the 38/40 is the rifle type die. I have one but have not used it yet as I haven't loaded any rounds for the ...

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I've shot one at long range, not sure what they do at 100 yards, probably like my 71/84 Mauser and shoot really high at that point. The Mauser doesn't even shoot to point of aim until 200 yards with a smokeless load that duplicates original ballistics. -Tutt Yes, my trapdoor is still a little high ...

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Dang right! That'll do the job.

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The first 10mm magnum -- our fine 38WCF or 38/40 -- has plenty of fans on this forum, and this article looked promising: HandloaderDec22.jpg Handloader1222article.jpg So our author starts out by conceding that the 38/40 has some challenges in loading, but what he considers "challenging" is...

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My bride of 50 years wimped out on me a few years ago and no longer will come along wood cutting. But she was still helping me when I'm running the log splitter until last month when she ruptured a disc (wasn't the firewood that got her -- it was a dang heavy mattress off one of the beds). Got a fee...

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Back in ancient days when I was shooting handguns a lot I killed a couple elk and a deer with the Ruger Redhawk, 7 1/2" bbl. I thought that gun was so close to perfect I bought a second to have on hand for when I wore out the first one. Haven't wore out the first one so have two of those "...

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My favorite target. But in Central Oregon they have become an almost-extinct species. So I haven't shot one around here in several years -- I'd hate to kill the last of the species.

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A couple fellows have been shooting (and scoring very well) with Stevens 44's at our vintage/lever match. But theirs do no't have such a fine heavy barrel as that one. Very very nice!

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Remembering back through the fog of time I'm afraid I overstated my little Thumler's longevity in my care. I wrote in my first post that I'd been using the tumbler almost as long as I've been reloading. I've been reloading just shy of 60 years, and I think I've only been using the Thumler's a little...

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I've become fond of the "spray-on" method of case lubing, but my home-made stuff leaves things a little juicier than I like so when I do a good wad of them I like to wash off the cases. So a few minutes ago I piled a bunch of 38/40's I just resized into the tumbler barrel and got her going...

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Dang, Shrapnel, you scored another one that makes me

I have a Marlin 1894 I have not yet got acting competitive -- have to see if I can figure out its sweet spot this year.

That '88 certainly is fine lookin'!

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I thought I would look and see if there was any data for the 50-140 cartridge in Quick Load already. Doesn't appear to be although I could pretty easily modify another 50 caliber I think (50-70 was in there but it's the "auto" one?) Anyhow, your not interested in going smokeless I know, b...

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