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"For the 6.5 CM the velocity is advertised as 2700 fps in a 24" barrel; I am only getting 2510 fps in my 24" barrel." That doesn't surprise me. I've run several factory cartridges over the chronograph with sometimes disappointing results. The 175 gr. 7x57 rounf advertised at 2440 FPY only did...

YUP! Paul B.

That video is full of more crap than a Christmas goose. He (it?) pans two of my favorite cartridges right out of the stating gate., the 30-30 and .300 Win. Mag. Maybe its chips are afraid of the recoil of the .300 Mag. scrambling its artificial brain. I can't comment on the other three it didn't...

Sounds good to me. Happy Birthday Fotis. Paul B.

Most of the time I'll pick a load halfway between the minumum and maximum loads in the manual I'm usig. If I'm running Nosler bullets, I'll use the latest Nosler manual I have on hand and work up from that point. It's worked out just fine for me, especially in these days of shortages and high...

The 200 gr. Hornady SP and RN got decent groups from an early Browning BLR and a Savage M99. However, in two different Ruger M77s they were more scatterguns than groupers. The two leverguns had 1 in 12" twist barrels and the Ruger' , 1 in 16" which may or may not have contributed to the problem...

Ain't that the truth. We generally lose power during the summer with out summer thunderstorms. I have the electric company on speed dial on my cell phone. They're usually fairly quick at locating the outage and getting the power back on. We've already had a couple this year and no high wind of...

There are so many laws in this country these days the if and when you get in or out of bed you're violating a law in some state. For some reason these two always seem to come to mind. Now to be clear I left San Francisco and the state of California back in 1968 so these may have been removed. In...

At what point did I lose you? Paul B.

I started being a true desert rat about 1970. I've seen coyotes as a single animal or as many as seven or eight in a pack and they always took off running. Even when calling them if it was more than one coming in after I shot the first the rest turned tail in a hurry. I never felt threatened by...

As I understand it, the various cartridges are loaded to a Maximum Allowable Pressure (MAP) and most reloading data is set at that level as well. Some cartridges are deliberately underloaded for safety due to rifles made in earlier years that are considered too weak for modern pressures or have...

In my desert ratting days I usually carried a .44 mag. of some kind. On rare occasions, it might be a .357 Mag. Usually first sht up was a rat load for snake problems and the rest for bigger stuff with potential nasty dispositions. More than once I saw a Black Bear or Mountain Lion crossing over...

I like Skeeter Skelton's load of 7.5 gr. Unique in the .44 Spl. (CAUTION: we above published maximum loads.) I use it as an all round load for my .44 Spl. Handguns. I run around 10 gr. of Unique as a working load for the .44 mag. and Elmer's 22.0 gr. 2400 load for a full power load for the .44...

Cha. I have three rifls chambered to the 7x57. All are strong modern actions. I've been using 7-08 data in the 7x57 and can run a 150 gr. Nosler to 2847 FPS, no sweat. using RL17. I did early on get 2880 FPS with the early style 140 gr. ballisric Tips but dropped in back to an even 2800 FPS...

Only one kill with the 165 gr. Accubond from my 30-06.I was doing a cow elk meat hunt and the day before the hunt was at the NA's Whittington Center checking out the scope on my .35 Whelen and a custom Mauser 30-06. The 30-06 was brought as back up rifle. When I shot the .35 the reticle in the...

For more years than I care to count I've used the Weaer rings and bases. I still have a couple mounts using the old style rings that clamped only on one side of the scope and they've never failed. Even used them on the .375 H&H Mauser and a Winchester M70 .375 H&H. I still use the Weaver bases...

I'm not sure I want to subject my two F. "Bob" Chow custom .1911s to those +P+ loads. My other custom is based on a Colt Gold Cup Slide mounted on a Caspian frame and is set up for light target loads. I like my Colt Combat Commander and would have to change to a heavier spring for sure...

I never hunted with the .300 WSM but I have helped noobies get their.300 EWSMs sighted on various platforms and did the load work up for a .300 WSM Featherweight for my son in law. Nice cartridge but truth be told, unless I got an extremely good deal on one I'll most likely never own one. Why...

Before I got my RCBS Chargemaster 1500 and CM Lite I did double throws for the .375 H&H and larger. One has to be a bit careful with those automatic powder measure as they can be affected by things like flourescent and cell phones. I had to completely change the lighting in my reloading shed...

I realize that most load data for the 257 Robt. is usually on the mild side but I use a chronograph to work up my top velocity loads so most loads with those bullets were shot at higher than published velocities. Nothing worked from the starting load to well over publish maximums. Results with...