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My brother's youngest son, a high school senior this year, just began shooting trap about a year ago. The coach at his school found out he was a duck hunter and heavily recruited him to join the multi-school trap team. I loaned him my BT 99 and he began his trap shooting experiences; he liked...

I'm loading for two 7mm-08's now and will be going through a load development process for each of them again after starting a new powder container. In the past i've just altered my powder charge and generally used saami oal or used an arbitrary .015 off of the lands as a standard. So I've little...

In the past past I've been fortunate enough to find really good loads with only minor variation from book specs. But with this new rifle I'm in search of a bit of guidance before I get too far from book specs. I just picked up a 44 mag single shot Henry rifle for use in Michigan's old "shotgun"...

About 25 years ago I had a very brief fling with an admittedly cheap illuminated reticle scope, I think it was a Swift 4-12 [?] with a reticle that could be illuminated using a control that would vary the intensity of the brightness. It sounded good for hunting at dusk, so I bought it and used...

After many years of regular shooting [and cleaning], I lived through another time going long periods [several years] without firing a shot through my rifles and shotguns. Now, trying to get active again, I've cleaned them all thoroughly and am once again ready to shoot. But I find myself not...

A friend gave me some 30 cal 150 grain scirocco's to load for his 30-06. But I don't have Swift manual. Can anyone help me out??? Will my old standard 30-06 load using 52 grains of IMR 4064 work?? I've found it to be quite accurate in several different rifles over the decades using Rem...

My son in law just bought himself a new Tikka in 22.250. It has a 1:14 rifling rate of twist. What would be the best bullets for accurately loading in this rifle? It will primarily be used for punching paper with my grandkids as an introduction to big and loud guns in preparation for moving them...

I've been considering the purchase of a .45 ACP 1911 and an XDs recently. Although the acquisition hasn't yet occurred, I've been starting to accumulate the necessary tooling and supplies to build ammo for this cartridge. But never having shot a larger caliber handgun, I have no idea of what...

My buddy recently purchased an AR chambered in .308 Win. He has also decided that buying commercial ammo is beyond his budget and he has asked me to teach him how to reload for his new toy [and his Browning A Bolt in .300WSM]. So..... What is the best bullet to use for an AR type rifle? Will...

My buddy's son recently purchased a Browning ABolt in 300 wsm without the boss. The young man [and his dad] are interested in getting into reloading for this rifle. I have invited them to stop by after the holidays and we would load up several rounds for his rifle to begin the load development...

The general Nosler rule has been if it's sold in a 50 pack it's a hunting bullet, if it's sold in a 100 pack it's a varmint bullet. Does this rule of thumb hold true for the 85 grain 25 cal CT ballistic silvertips? They're sold in a 50 pack; but the "regular" Nosler Btips are sold in 100 packs...

This is a new dimension in reloading for me. When does the weight of a case demonstrate such a divergence from the average that it should be culled from your inventory? I have 60 previously fired Remington 7mm-08 cases; all freshly trimmed, tumbled, flash holes de-burred and re-primed. The...

I got out my chronograph yesterday to begin prepping for the arrival of a new rifle and the load development that goes with it and to my surprise i found all of my diffusers [skyscreens] have yellowed. Yup, its been in the box a lot longer than I care to admit; but will I need to replace these...

Does anyone have any info [derived from actual shooting comparisons] of degradations in accuracy resulting from adding spiral flutes to a Rem 700 bolt in a modestly built custom .257 Roberts rifle? I didn't think it would affect it, but my smith [whose quite conservative about such things] has...

Yesterday I broke a bit of new ground.... ordered my first custom built rifle in .257 Roberts. I bought a new SS Remington 700 in 7mm-08 during a pre-hunting season sale for about what I'd been willing to pay for a SS Rem 700 action alone. My 'smith recommended using a Douglas XX barrel, and...

Is the 100 grain 25 cal Ballistic Tip suitable for deer hunting or is it a varmint bullet?? I'm in the process of building a 257 Roberts and it's looking like the projectile acquisition phase of the project may be beginning soon due to SPS making these available or should I wait for the 100...

I am thinking about buying or building a .257 Roberts, probably on Rem 700 short action. I want this rifle for informal target shooting and hunting use. If I follow thru on the build it will be my first custom rifle. As a hunting arm, I'm looking for it to handle Michigan Whitetails and maybe a...

Sometimes we take things for granted.... like this forum.... and great bullets. I've been a customer of Nosler for many years; ever since my gunsmith recommended 120gr 7mm bullets to a recoil shy shooter [me] over 15 years ago for use in my Rem Model 7 7mm-08. Since then I've been hooked. And...

My hunting partner has recently had some neck surgery which has left him very sensitive to recoil from his hunting rifle. He has changed to an autoloader to lessen the felt recoil. I'd like to load some 125 gr BT's for him to use in hopes that it will make shooting more comfortable for him. My...

Whatever happened to the Remington Etronx? Many years back Remington was marketing a bolt action small caliber rifle using an electronic fire control system versus the mechanical system used in virtually all other modern rifles. The concept sounded interesting. Did it really provide any real...