Well, we did cycle it like a pump shotgun (i have Ithaca model 37 16 & 20 gauges). All the problems have been figured out, including feeding, bottom loading, pointed bullets (Remington spiral...
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Forum: Factory Rifles
Well, we did cycle it like a pump shotgun (i have Ithaca model 37 16 & 20 gauges). All the problems have been figured out, including feeding, bottom loading, pointed bullets (Remington spiral...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Daughter's boyfriend brought over one of these, new to him. Tried it at 25 yards, Federal factory 150 gr JSP. Magazine only holds 3 rounds, is difficult to load. Out of 9 rounds, had 6 failures to...
I was able to find some of the targets shot with the .45-70 ruger #3 single shot, but not all the ones i was looking for. One series was with Lyman 457196 300 grain HB. 10.0 gr UNIQUE grouped well,...
What rifle are you using, Master Guns? An AR platform has different requirements than hporter's bolt action. For a lightweight rifle of heavy caliber, I loaded some .45-70 with pistol-type 250 to 350...
I bought my 3" Bulldog back in the 80's, and have not shot it at anything but paper targets at 50 feet indoor range. Due to it's light weight I used loads with cast bullets around 200 gr. Velocity...
I just read Terry Wieland's article on this gun in the latest Handloader (#350). It uses 7-shot moon clips. Headspaces on the mouth of the cartridge case. It uses the big X frame like the .500 and...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Yes, versatile. It has one of those elastic cartridge holders for 10 rounds on the buttstock. I call it my "fully semiautomatic break-open single-shot assault rifle, with high capacity fabric...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I got this out of the closet and shot three 3-shot groups with it, just for fun, at 25 yards off the back porch. .38 Special Fiocchi 158 gr. JHP, .357 Magnum PMC 158 gr JSP, and then the one that...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Daughter brought over one of these. After some fooling around with the red dot sight (off of another gun) at 25 yards it was plunking them all in 2 1/2 inches. Seemed a bit heavy for me, more than my...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Long ago, I competed in .22 indoor pistol matches wit a Hi Standard Tournament. I got about 1 failure to fire out of a box of 50 with Win, Rem, or other standard velocity ammo. I switched to CCI...
Forum: Leverguns
This will be my second post on this thread. My oldest granddaughter (29) went to her local range to participate in the weekly running deer match, competing with a rifle I gave her. She earned a 3rd...
Forum: Leverguns
What Winger-Ed said. I had some new .30 Rem rimless brass I was neck expanding to .32 Rem. On firing the necks split. Annealed the rest of the batch, 90 new brass mind you, to solve the problem.
Forum: Leverguns
My .303 M99 is a takedown, but I have never done that. No need. Before the PRVI Partizan brass was available, I cut off .40 S&W brass to make a sleeve, and pressed it down over a .30-30 case to make...
Forum: Leverguns
Thanks for all the help! I had to wait a few days for a bore light to arrive (my old one was kaput). Follower is steel. No dents or obstructions in the tube. Shortened the magazine spring 4 inches,...
Forum: Leverguns
I have tried to load the magazine as normal with other lever guns, but can’t get more than 4 rounds in. First round goes in OK. Succeeding rounds hang up as if the nose is catching on something. By...
Forum: Leverguns
Yes indeed. I gave my M94 .32 Special to my daughter. It is very accurate with cast bullets. Go for it, make cases out of .30-30s if necessary
Forum: Leverguns
Mine might be older, it has that crappy finish. But I did have that same feeding problem. The lifter has a kind of stop sticking forward to position the round. I cut that back an eighth of an inch as...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Get a case of hardball also. Where you are, you may need it, and keep your magazines filled. Just saying.
Forum: Rimfire Area
OK, I got a group with the Hornady 30 gr v-max from a Marlin M983S bolt action rifle. It’s cold, so 25 yds off the back porch, 5 shots into 0.45 “ with 4X scope.
Forum: Factory Rifles
Really like all these reminiscences. By the ‘70s I was out of the Marines, married with kids, trying to make a decent life for us in an up-and-down economy.
The gun I still wish I had been able to...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Triplebeards - those are nice groups. Its been a long time since I skinned a squirrel. Wife was a city girl, and won’t eat them, but if there is no other protein (politics being what they are now),...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Did some 25 yd shooting with the 30 gr Vmax ammo today. Does not group in the Ruger Single six. In the S&W M&P it groups as well as the 40 grain, but is fully 2 inches lower.
My daughter shot her...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Received the ammo today. Ordered 1Feb, delivered 6Feb. Clarksville TN to Belfast, ME UPS.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Haven’t got this ammo yet. But my daughter bought a Smith & Wesson M&P in .22 WMR caliber, and brought it over for me to try it out. It has a 30 round magazine. I loaded 20 rounds of CCI 40 grain TMJ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
The Ruger #3 single shot will also accept the longer brass. And, as DanLee says, make it out of .30-30 as we did when the caliber was new. 6 gr. pistol powder, cornmeal on top to fill, a dab of wax...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |