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How big was the gong? I was dinging away at our 12" at 400 yards at our club one day, using up an odd lot of match ammo (I had switched from 168 BTHP to a 150 FMJ that closely replicates M2 Ball as my match opportunities are drifting away from OTC to JCG matches). A guy walked over from the...

I would turn them into brass with some quality offhand practice. You'll notice less recoil shooting in this position as your body absorbs and dissipates it more effectively. I've been downloading the .30-06 and .308 for some time now. I joke that every .30 cal rifle I own is a .300 Savage...

I'll stick to hunting guns. My primary waterfowl gun, a Stoeger 3" semi auto, carries one of 3 tubes depending on the day. For close shooting on smaller birds, as when I'm hunting small water with timber where the majority of my birds are teal and wood ducks and I'm slinging HV #4 steel, I use...

It's hard to push for something seen as potentially decreasing safety, whether the decrease is real or imagined. Who wants to be the beaurocrat or legislator who votes for something that causes a death or injury? Kind of like raising the speed limit, it's by nature an uphill battle. As a...

You'll find it a fine bullet for whitetail sized game in the .280 Rem. I've been using it for years. Excellent expansion without the meat wrecking "poof" of ballistic tips, and a little better penetration than conventional cup and cores. Concur with others above, a softer bullet is called for...

I've been loading mine, a T38 carbine, with either BL-C2 or IMR 4350 and a flat based 120 grain Sierra SP. I'm referencing Hornady load data, away from my notes right now, so I can't give you weights, but I'm staying a couple grains below max. PRVI brass. Loads are about as accurate and...

http://missouribullet.com/details.php?p ... econdary=9 I'd recommend these over about 4 gr of HP38 for a clean burning, low recoil plinking load in .38SPL. Note, this is still a relatively full power load for that "big gun" feel, recoil is reduced by the low bullet weight. Try trail boss or...

Look into hi-tek coated bullets. I believe Missouri makes the softest alloy ones in .357 diameter that would be best for low velocities on steel. The lead is completely encapsulated in these until they are fired. They are much less expensive than jacketed bullets, and somewhat less than...

Another vote for the solid base soft point, at least in some bread and butter offerings. .270 130 grain, 7mm 140 grain, .308 150grain. I really miss these bullets, I found them superior to BTs on deer. I would really like them to expand their pistol bullet line with some heavier partition...

I have considerable experience shooting both rounds. With mild recoiling .308 150gr vs .280 Rem 150 gr, I don't care what the numbers say, the .280 feels "sharper," even though they should be identical. That being said, it is not unmanageable, even for a shooter of lighter build. The...

I'm not a high five kind of guy, at least not where big game is concerned. The taking of a large mammal is for me a very solemn occasion. The culmination of months of hard work and days of patience, years of developing and honing my skills. It is a relief, a joy, a sadness, and I'd be lying...

Yeah, I caught the original intent of the post also, but my mind was already on walkabout, so I decided to share some of my youthful indiscretion. Personally, I always shoot donors. I don't really have donors anymore, as "The Death Ray" .280 rem is the love of my life and any other rifle I get...

I grew up spending the summers on a couple different farms where guns were tools. The uncles and Grandpa had some decent quality guns locked in a safe, but the guns "us kids" were encouraged to use were all prone to give one pause before pulling the trigger. There was the Sears .410 single...

I've shot the 6.5x55, .300 Savage, and I'd lump my .280 Rem in also as I shoot it mostly at 7x57 Speeds, and taken deer with all of the above. Ones I think I would add to the list: Modern .223rem...Fast twist barrel of at least 20", 5.56 pressures. Very efficient cartridge, just coming into...

I'm going to go on a different tack here, not far off of the .308, just a tad longer. Speaking strictly in terms of ballistics, the 7mm Mag would be superior, but there is another variable here. The shooter. OP states primarily a bird guy, so OP needs considerable rifle practice to even...

A Rem 722 in .300 Sav or .257 Roberts with abused wood and good metal and bore. Need a new project LOL. It would have to be cheap right now after my basement flooded a couple weeks ago.

Field pistol (straight walled cartridge, iron sights) is 25, 50, 75 and 100m on 1/2 scale targets. Big bore is to 200m on the rams. Shot a few matches last year. Struggled in Big Bore as I didn't have enough elevation or repeatability in the stock Ruger BH sights for 200m, had to use a heavy...

There's no accounting for taste, or is there? My particular female prefers a very old, very well used Ithaca M37 Featherweight 12 pump with a few small modifications. I've tried putting every gun I could find in her hands to try, and she still gravitates to this one so I've given up trying...

You could just go .270 Redding or .270IHMSA (.300 SavX,277), existing dies and reamers are out there. This would give you a tad more horsepower yet, and have the right geometry for that M7.

Maybe. Is there a speedy method of reloading tube magazines? Not too familiar with the cowboy guns. I'd think prone might slow you down throwing a lever. I know I can cycle and charge a straight pull Swiss pretty darn fast though. Even a straight bolt mauser with practice can be fired...