Recent content by PJGunner

Well Varget is not a powder I've ever worked with but I've worked with and used the 30-06 for years. I use a chronograph while working up my handloads but I'll have to presume, at least at this point in time you don't have or have access to one. Here's how I did it during the dark ages of my...

I don't know if that bull in the photo is a baby or not but I do very much like the curve of his horns. He'd look just fine on my wall, that is if I have a wall strong enough to take the weight. Paul B. PS: I know this isn't the best place to post this but for the last few weeks this site has...

A propellent that I've found to work very well in the .270 Win., .280 Rem. and .300 Win. Mag. is the now long discontinued Winchester magnum Rifle powder more commonly known as WMR. As it works so well in the first two cartridges mentioned, it is a mystery to me why it is so erratic in the...

I may be going out on a limb here but this is just my honest appraisal of the .308 as experienced by me. First, a bit of history. I never had .308 as I thought it was a 30-06 want to be that just didn't cut it. I didn't have any interest in the cartridge until 1973 when too many years of being...

I never had a problem running 180 gr. Sierra round nose bullets in either the .308or 30-06 on deer. Never recovered any of those bullets as they all passed through the animal. Deer usually dropped on the spot. Paul B.

I concur. Date for a 165 gr. bullet will work just fine. Paul B.

Dunno how easy they may be found but Browning made a run of exact clones of the 1895 Winchester. They came in 30-06 and .270 Win. Either one could easily be rebored to the .35 Whelen. I have one in the 30-06 and I like to run 220 gr. Cast bullets at 30-40 Krag speed through it. I do the same...

I used .270 data as a base for my .280 Rem. The only similarly common bullet is the 150 gr. So I reduced the .270 load and wworked up From there I sent to a 160 gr. Speer Grand Slam (older version) using WMR powder with is now long gone. My rifle is a custom on a DWM Argentine Mauser with a 24"...

Not in a .270 but the 165 gr. Accubond shoots sub MOA in my 30-06, I took a nice fat cow elk with it a few years back. Bullet hit the right side just behind the short ribs and stopped in the left lung making strawberry jam in the process. I never found the bullet and no exit wound. I think it...

Well I have a 6MM Remington and 7 MM Rem. Mag in Ruger #1s, the "B" model and a Ruger #1A in 7x57. Then there is the .280 Rem. which once carried the name 7MM Express. Sll are nice guns and all are very accurate except the 7x57, Still at 1.25" on average it's more than good enough to hunt with...

I've never used one of the Bergers in anything and frankly probably never will. Someone mentioned the ABLRs and what little I have done with them has been pretty dismal. I tried the 150 gr. ABLR in three different 7x57 rifles and a .280 Remington. Nothing even close to good in the 7x57s and the...

In conversations with different guides on elk hunts, their opinion was depending on the cartridge the distance should be 100 yards or more and with most magnums definitely more. The only ABLRs I've done anything with were in three 7x57 rifles and a .280 Rem. I never got any kind of decent...

FWIW, you can use those same receiver sights on the post 64 M94 rifles. I have a few pre64 M94s and a couple of M64s which are a fancier version of the M94. I also have one post 64 M94 and thus is the crux of my comments. When I snap a pre 64 to my should while looking at a spot on the was or...

I have two Redhawks, a 5.5" and a 7.5". Either one needs a carriage as they have mass and weight. Definitely hell for stout. I wouldn't mind finding a 4.2" just to complete the set. Paul B.

Me too! Six shots and six dead elk. What's not to like? Rifle is a custom Mauser, 24" barrel, 1 in 14" twist. Load is the 225 gr. Barnes TSX, Remington brass, Winchester WLR (standard) primer and RL15 powder. Accuracy usually one inch or less and velocity 2710 FPS. Paul B.