Recent content by Darkhorse

When I loaded .357 magnum all I shot were my own cast bullets. I was writing a column for the local newspaper and got all the linotype I wanted. For the first 10 years or so of shooting muzzleloaders I cast my own balls. I had a Karate student who built and repaired X ray booths and I got all...

On my last elk hunt I spent a week at Rocky mountain national park hiking around to get accustomed to the altitude before the hunt. One day I found a slide and climbed it. Far above the trail I found a 6 point elk that had been killed by a lion, the skull was upside down with the points all...

Thanks. If I got a wood stock the understanding is I would bed the entire action. Open up the barrel channel then bed that also while floating the barrel. Depending on the finish of the stock I would probably remove the original finish then seal and refinish the entire stock with a favorite...

My Tikka is a stainless w/synthetic stock. What I want to know is which is more accurate, the synthetic or the wood? Synthetics are nice for hunting, getting beat up and getting mud hardened all over it etc. But I like the feel of wood and the amount of tinkering you can do. Just wondering in...

My immediate family came from the backwoods of NE Florida and the Flint River valley of Georgia. Both sides hunted and fished for subsistence, little sport was involved. We always froze our fish in water and it's true that completely submerged and froze they retain their flavor for years. I...

I've been looking at boats again and wondered why I saw no Evinrudes. I didn't realize they were out of buisness. They used to make a good motor. Growing up all Grand dad and Dad would run were Johnson's and Evinrude. In '03 I bought a 20 footer with a 150 Evinrude for offshore fishing. We...

wvbuckbuster, Yes I've annealed before sizing and either one seems to work about equal. However if I size first I can tell which cases need annealing and which ones can wait another turn or so. That's the only reason I size first.

I have a simple method of dealing with the problem. I am mostly concerned that all my cases have the same or nearly the same amount of grip on the bullets. First thing is prepping old cases. I chuck a drill bit in the drill press and wrap steel wool around it, turn on the drill and run the bit...

Even though I only have 2 at the moment I am still a single action fan. Some things I just do best with the old single action. I have my old (1979) Super Blackhawk Ruger with the 7.5" barrel. The .44 mag. is poison on hogs down in the palmetto thickets. And mostly for practice a Ruger single six...

Older thread, yes I know. But data is still pertinent. Back in the 80's we had 3- 44 magnums in the family. 2 Ruger auto carbines and my 7.5" Super Blackhawk. They were all shot a lot and the carbines were hunted full time for whitetails. Just to cut to the chase the results of many deer taken...

When I posted earlier I had forgotten about this one. I am having shoulder problems and most of my rifles are now to heavy. So I've been considering a Savage lightweight. This one has the carbon wrapped barrel and only weighs about 5 1/2 pounds. I've never been a Savage man but this one looks...

I was shooting Hornady 150 grain SST's, the first factory loads I've hunted with in 40 years. When I got the rifle years ago I didn't have time to work up a load so I bought a couple of boxes of 150 Interbonds which I really liked but they stopped making them in any quantity, so I switched to...

That buck may have suspected he was a goner because he wouldn't stop and give me a good shot. He just went at a fast trot up an old logging road and any moment one step to the left and he would have been gone. I didn't really want to take the shot because of how fast he was going and how far...

For nearly 15 years my main rifle was my LH Rem. Model 700 in 7mm mag. Then I bought a 300 WM for an elk hunt and liked it so much it became my main rifle another 10 years of so. But I got older and started hunting a lot from ground blinds and those long barreled magnums didn't feel so good...

I have/had enough centerfires. Except for maybe a Henry in 44 mag. But I'm saving that one for later. Right now I'm planning on building another flintlock. Something much lighter and slimmer due to my support side shoulder problems. Since I prefer hunting with flintlocks these days and my other...