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Since my shoulder operation I've been taking a look at ways to lighten up on the recoil. One of the calibers under consideration was .30/30 in the new extended range Marlins with the 24" stainless barrels. I love my 1895, but it hurts me. Then I remembered, over on the old Marlin forum, talk...

How's that for a grabby headline. Heck, we all need a new rifle. But I am developing a chronic right shoulder. Darn thing has been separated in a traffic accident and has a touch of osteoarthritis, now I have torn the rotator cuff and will have surgery next month. Recoil is becoming...

I recently loaded a batch of .270 Win ammo, using the max load of H4831sc listed in the Nosler manual, using virgin cases (RP). I fired off 30 rounds last month in my new TC Encore barrel, then decided to reload the fired cases. As I began to resize the cases, I noticed that the primers had...

Nosler: your FAQ posts show minimum reliable expansion velocities for Partitions as 1800 FPS. Gut instinct tells me this is not true for Partition HG bullets or the 45/70 300 and the .30 170 rn. What are these values??? By the way, how about a .35 caliber FP or RN, about 200 grains, for us...

My pet deer rifle is a Marlin 1895 with a Leupold VX3 1.5-5. I have worked up a load of 51 grains of H4198 with the 458/300 Partition. I get 2200 fps and it is Northest deer woods accurate. +2/-3" point blank range is 170 yards, father than I will likely shoot in Maine or New Hamshire. This...