Looks like I get to try the early season High Buck hunt. Probably in the Pasayten Wilderness . Any advice? I imagine it could be warm temps and where we are going takes at least a day to hike in. Keeping meat cool could be a challenge. Be at least two of us, maybe 4. 3 point minimum and I hear...
Hybrid steel/nickle for reloading. Lighter, Stronger, Faster for your speeding bullet. Like the cases for the 7mm Backcountry?
https://shellshocktechnologies.com/shop/cases-reloading-tools/shell-shock-308-nas3-cartridge-cases/
Also says on another page
Can I reload NAS³ rifle cases?
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Ground squirrels, Dusky, Spruce and Franklin Grouse -Remington Model 12 pump 22 rimfire, age 10 to current
Wild Pig- FN 7x57. Stalking thru the tunnels they make in the tule reeds is something else. Coonhound went first.
Having success with old SR 4759 and 25 caliber match bullets for light 1700 fps loads. I sure wish they would bring back this powder. Anyway I a had a great couple of hours at the range. These loads have no kick. 18 grains of SR4759 and a 100 grain Sierra Match bullet (2nds). The 25-284 used...
I sort my brass and bullets by weight when loading for jacketed bullets, not so much for cast. These military cases were not weighed, but the all had the same headstamp and date, even had the pastboard box they came in, so presumably were from the same lot. I haven't annealed them either, so the...
The Glorious 12th (grouse season) doesn't start here till next month. We have to make do with a bear hunt and picking huckleberries. No bears yet but the berries are better than I've ever seen. Easily a gallon an hour with 3 or 4 berries in a cluster. And Peaches! You remind me we have a local...
Loaded some 223 grain cast bullets for the 30-06. 25 grains Reloder 7. Seated to the lands. 100 yards with some wind. Everything the same except the brass.
Top of photo old military brass I found at the range. Foreign stuff with a 1969 date.
Bottom same load but with RP brass. I stopped...
Sportered 1928 Springfield with 212 Eld X and Staball. Bal-Var Scope. 2600 fps.
Backup/Rain and Fog, Mossberg plastic 375 Ruger with 250 grain Sierra gameking bullets, IMR 4350 reduced recoil load 2500 fps. Weaver 1.5 to 4.5 scope for closer timber and fog shots.
Not bad shooting from such an antiquated cartridge lacking all the "inherently accurate" updates of the cartridges of the last decade.
Right now I have mine set up with 212 ELD x at 2600 fps using Staball 6.5. Maybe for elk season. It really likes 150 and 180 BT's too with Imr 4350.
My father in laws ruger semi auto like the 240 XTP accuracy wise. Since they also are most accurate in my blackhawk, I'd start there. However if grizzly was a possibility I think I would find some 300 grain hard cast for a lever action
Rumor has it that IMR4227 is rebranded H4227 (which isn't on the current Hodgdon burn chart). I see some nice heavy loads for 38 special using H4227 and I have a couple of pounds of IMR 4227. Okay to use IMR for H data?