02/25/2024 – The local roads are posted, so Maine spring and mud season can’t be far behind. All of my bitching about clearing snow and freezing temperatures will be replaced with my bitching about spring clean up, landscaping and maintenance work. There is always something to grouse about that doesn’t…...
Tag: 7.62×39
Supersonic – Subsonic Handloading the 7.62×39 Ruger American Ranch Part III
Prologue 04/24/2022 – From my perspective, this project was enjoyable. Handloading is one of those aspects of firearm ownership that appears to hold more narrow of an appeal with each passing year. I guess this is because of how our interests in firearms are so varied; hunting, competitive shooting, self…...
Supersonic - Subsonic Handloading the 7.62x39 Ruger American Ranch Part II
4/10/2022 – There is an old saying, “You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs” which is where Part 1 took me… lots and lots of broken eggs. The breakage began when I chose to ignore everything experience had taught me about the 7.62x39mm in pursuit of theoretical…...
Supersonic - Subsonic Handloading the 7.62x39 Ruger American Ranch Part I
04/03/2022 -I am stuck. I can’t make up my mind if I want this John Deere 2038R… which I can’t afford, or a smaller, but similarly equipped John Deere 1025… which I also can’t afford. It isn’t the cost of the basic tractor, but rather all of the options and…...
Zastava's ZPAPM70 AK Derivative Part I
01/18/2022 -The plan is to write this in two to three parts. There is too much for me to learn and cover in one single pass. I hope you’ll bear with me. It appears that many firearm manufacturers are substituting changes in rifle stocks, the pattern of camo and/or the…...
Ruger's Mini Thirty 7.62x39
10/03/2021 Just ten more days until the official start of Fall and there are so many projects to wrap up before winter. Frequent, if not heavy rainfall, kept the porch deck wet. So all of the hours spent cleaning, deoxidizing and other prep work for staining and sealing 1,000 square…...
Ruger's Mini-Thirty 7.62x39mm Part II
Audio Prologue: 05/17/2020 Today is a handload assembly day. So no political news, no Facebook, no conversation. Maybe just a little Gillian Welch playing in the background. I would listen to Muddy Waters, but then I’d start singing along and playing air blues guitar… just too much of a distraction……...
Ruger's Mini-Thirty 7.62x39mm Part I
Audio Prologue: 05/11/2020 – Sometimes my wife allows me to assist in putting lunch together. Today was one of those days; tuna sandwiches. Diet whole wheat bread, two cans of white albacore chunk packed in water, two large tablespoons of Hellman’s mayonnaise, chopped celery, chopped green onion, a dash of…...
7.62x39mm
Warning: Bullet selections are specific, and loads are not valid with substitutions of different bullets of the same weight. Variations in bullet length will alter net case capacity, pressure and velocity. Primer selection is specific and primer types are not interchangeable. These are maximum loads in my firearms and may…...