I’ll admit it, I am the last person on earth to use a red dot sight, but I finally caved. It isn’t a distrust of technology, especially mature technology, it’s just that I didn’t know how the little dot got in there and I didn’t like the way it keep […]

Generally speaking, I think most of us tend to get familiar with one brand of reloading die when we start out reloading, and stay with that brand unless we encounter some serious problem with the product in use. Each brand has some feature designed to set it apart from competitors, […]

I’ve been waiting for a range day for over three weeks. This rainy season has kept me working indoors as chronographs frequently won’t work in dense fog or under heavily overcast skies. When I woke this morning again to the sound of driving rain, I thought I might dedicate some […]

I’m not generating as much material for  the site as I intended. There is a lot of work going on, like the addition and development of services to the site. If you call or email for service tech support, you’re probably hearing names like Joe (another Joe), Rich and Mike, […]

OK, I know what you’re thinking, “Why in the world would he end the year with a frightening photo of a refugee from a witness protection program?”.  The truth of the matter is, people sometimes ask who I am, as in, “Who the heck do you think you are?”. My […]

If you were poking around the “Members” top menu button, you might have noticed  a new active drop down menu line ” Handload Data Base”. We put this beta version up so we could get a live test, clean up the active program and add features and information while it […]

If you are unaware, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, the family friendly store owned and operated by a family of billionaires has elected to bar Christmas from their stores. I guess there is no limit to the money you can make in the absence of character. It is unfortunate because it was their […]

I wrapped up the previous installment with the heading “No pain, no gain”; I wasn’t joking. Fitting a firearm for a strain gage takes care, if the resulting reading as are to be credible. I’m not suggesting this is a difficult process, it just isn’t a casual process and instructions […]

There is great satisfaction in shooting handloaded ammunition, that has been assembled with an optimized selection of components, “optimized” defined as yielding the best possible combination ingredients for a specific application. The application may be low cost target ammo, something for maximum bullet expansion on big game, an emphasis on […]

I was planning to handload a bunch of 7.5x55mm Swiss, but I was having a heck of a time finding brass. Most of the usual suspects catalogued the item, but all were out of stock, so I had to look to a donor source at $14 per box. The Prv […]