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…...
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Ruger Hawkeye African Part II
300 WSM
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…...
Ruger Hawkeye African Part I
07/13/2020 The sight or mention of the word “Swede” triggers many reaction, even for us unwoke… folk; professional wrestler Phil Olafsson as the Swedish Angel in Mighty Joe Young, the cynical squire in Bergman’s Seventh Seal and Svenska Biogas’s yeoman research into the extraction of methane from slaughterhouse rendered cow…...
Remington's Long Slide 1911 R1 10mm Hunter Part II
06/12/2020 Pardon the redundancy… This issue of 10mm Automatic power was addressed on Part I, but the comparison was to large bore magnum cartridges. Now that we know the 10mm Automatic pales in performance, kinetic energy wise, to the 50 BMG, the table below may provide more reasonable associations and…...
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…...
Winchester's Model 1885 and the 38-55 WCF Part II
So I loaded up the Winchester Model 1885 Traditional Hunter’s Deluxe with Blackhills Ammunition 38-55 255 grain flat nose ammo and fired a shot that went 1,331 fps over the chronograph. The rifle shrugged, as though it barely noticed, the muzzle of the 28″ barrel barely coughed, burped and didn’t…...
Winchester's Model 1885 Traditional Hunter Deluxe and the 38-55 WCF Part I
04/19/2020 The Model 1885 was invented by John M. Browning in 1878 and patented in 1879 as a generic Browning Brothers single shot rifle. Approximately six hundred rifles were produced by the Browning Brothers of Ogden, Utah Territory between 1880 and 1883, before the manufacturing and sales rights were sold…...