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Where I live on the Gold Coast Qld, Aus, I'm lucky enough to have a huge variety of interesting wildlife frequenting my backyard Here's a few. Female Koel Male Satin Bowerbird Male Koel Red Necked Wallaby & Joey

I used a lot of Winchester WXR (Winchester Extruded Rifle) when it was still available. I was always led the believe it was made in the same facility and just rebranded Reloder 22. I think it was replaced by W780.

In my Rem 700CDL 7mmRem Mag, when using 160gn Nosler Accubonds, RL25 produces the best velocity at 3000fps.

I've knocked up a few loads for my Marlin 1895 in 45/70 Gov, recently. 300gn Speer Jacketed HP's and 60gns of H335 was the winning formula. Believe me, I got some attention during my last trip to the range.

Here's a few more. I've photographed most of these birds hundreds of times and only keep about 5%, the other 95% get deleted as soon as I look at them. Female Satin Bowerbird ( or possibly a juvenile male ) Male Eastern Koel Rainbow Lorikeet. Juvenile Grey Butcherbird Pale...

A few pics taken in the backyard...Gold Coast, Qld, Australia. Galah; Pied Currawong Grey Butcherbird

A female Koel up close and personal.

The male Satin Bowerbird is usually quite shy but I was lucky enough to score this nice pic last year.

Hi Folks, Does anyone know if Hodgdon H335 has an exact equivalent supplied by another powder company, eg , Vihtavuori etc ??

My primary hunting load when using a 308 is 47gns Varget & 150gn Nosler Accubonds. I know I can get more velocity using either CFE223 or Alliant PowerPro 2000-MR but Varget (2208) is more readily available in my area.

In my 1969 Rem 700BDL with 24"bbl, 225gn Sierra & 59.0gns IMR4320 produced 2705fps. 200gn HP & 56.0gns RL10X produced 2851fps.After trying many powders those are my best combinations for those bullet weights.

Great informative video. Although in saying that, a Ranger Point Precision loading gate spring is what the test rifle needs. My Marlin 1895 45/70 had a loading gate like a rat trap once ....all good now though. While on the subject of the 45/70, here's a pic I took a few weeks back...

I recently purchased a new Marlin 1895 in 45-70 and have just started load development. I'm currently using Speer 300gn jacketed HP's #2482 and 51gn of H4198 for a 3 shot average of 2085fps. I'm wondering if someone could run the 300gn Speer HP 45-70 combination through Quickload. I just...

140gn Nosler Accubonds work a treat for me, especially when pushed by a healthy dose of Reloder 17.

I don't have QUICKLOAD and don't need to work out which powders perform well in a certain cartridge. If you're using 139gn bullets in a 7mm/08, Reloder 17 is damn hard to beat.