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Last Tuesday I took off for my birthday and celebrated the solitude of an empty range .

I took Dad's M700 Varmint Master 25-06' with the OM wide shoe trigger , early 1972 . Very...

Dad's M700 . This is where Dad shot his load zeroed at 200 yd 100gr SMK or PH at 3100 fps I haven't run the cast loads over the Chrony yet but the 125 gr cast should be about 1900 with Unique and...

Observations , stories , discussion.

I've used 3-4 different tools and methods to "get the first shot on paper" . Like so many of us vision changes have changed the means . In my 20s , enough...

Hard cast is a marketing term . There's 10 ways to get a bhn number and 8 very different results. Fit stops fouling .

I'll be watching the progress .

Free hand , kind of an upright Weaver stance, I was shooting 3" at 25 yd . For a compact type pistol with a floating barrel ,bone factory stock , self defense type auto I was satisfied as I had...

That makes me feel pretty good about my 2.5" XD40 .

I wish it was 4" I could get 1000 fps MV.
I used Unique with cast .

Just for geewiz what do get with the 175/180s ?

The groups look good to me . What range ?

Not really wildcats as such but out in the weeds .

148 gr nose out WC 358361 Lyman .
3.0 Unique 9×19
Data is sort of an amalgam from 38 short ,12 kpsi cartridge, and 9×19 147 halved and worked...

Just a quirk I stepped in .

I've been shooting the Santa Barbara 98 358 Win for a while . Since I got it set up it's been fidgety with the last round. Things being what they have been since the...

358 Win 360-238 XCB NOE , 20 rounds 8.5 Unique for fire form FC 308 .
257 Roberts 257412 10 Unique 20 something to shoot.
275 Rigby 7mm 168 RCBS 8&8.5 Unique and 41&41.5 DuPont 4350.
25-06'...

RP LRP brass
Win LRP
IMR 4350
Sierra Match King HPBT 180 gr .

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The rifle .
41';Tirni Carcano
Montana Rifleman 20" 1-8.5" target crown .

A long story shortened to I needed a cartridge rim to fit a bolt face then fitted a caliber barrel .

6.8 data works fine up to 130 gr but I want use the whole of the available twist . Not a...

It's a 1917 and has to retain the case mouth head space with a .453 maximum dia cast bullets .
The 45 mag dies came up dirt cheap compared to the Colts dies I looked up yesterday........ $75 !?! I...

Did another 200 Colts today . Star Line brass.

I have a 45 ACP reamed 45 S&W with an ACP Reamer . It seems the 45 Win Mag is just the right length dies for the taper crimp and evev the steel sizer...

Speed #12 says 10-11 for their 260gr jhp soni could probably go on up to 11.5:with the 252 gr cast .

One hundred each 45 Colts in 1x Armscore Precision brass . The fine NOE 454-250 SWC version of the Kieth 454424 Lyman from WW-pure at 50-50 . The lube is the left overs in the new to me lubeizer...

Can't get the followers there to drop in here .

I check at least every other day ,I try to make it twice a day . I don't post much because I don't get to shoot as much as I'd like .
Most of what I do load is finished and fixed data in known loads...

100 fps is factory data for a case step in caliber with like pressure........
It's also why up to 165 gr the 308 is in a dead heat with the 06' .......
It takes roughly 5,000 psi or 5 gr of most...

Yeah I made contact .

Long out of production now 100 round 410 trays.

They may have been this one has some 45 Colts in the back half .
That would make sense if it were for 100 each 410s ,you could 200 in a 30 cal can , probably even 3" .
Honestly I never even gave it...

I found these for sale about 10 years ago and just assumed they'd been available since the 1970s they'd be around a while longer.

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Loading and 30 cal can trays.
I need a tray about .750...

Mom handed me a box and says "the rust is bad , I didn't know the 97' was still in the box .

Like all things there's more to the story. Circa 1960-62' when 97' Winchesters were still cheap and...

The 1-10" 30 cal will stabilize almost every bullet under 1.2 inches in length . Copper Monolith bullets up to 190 gr should be ok 210 gr cup and core spire points and 220 spritzers used to be the...

I've been inspired to address case sizing.

The inspiration come from "all of the top Bench Rest guys FL size every time" . Well they probably do , but they also have a FL sizer , dedicated shell...