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First, make sure that you have a good supply of parent brass. At present, 25-20 brass is rare.
Second, check the firing pin diameter of the donor shotgun. Small is better; the H&R/NEF usually has a...

Fifty grains of FFG from my .54 Plains Pistol set an 8point buck dead on his butt at 40 odd feet. No thanks on the 60 gr. load!


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This is from Hodgdon #24.
I’m in a similar boat; gave my 25-06 to oldest daughter and I have leftover slow burners to...

Update on the Ginex primers.
They have been 100% in fireformed/ neck sized brass; I’m certain that the ftf problem was from a headspace/support problem from over sizing the 30-30 brass.


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Thanks for sharing that- and the pics.
Way to shoot!
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This is folklore type advice… but long ago I read (somewhere)that you set the ball on a flat surface then pour the powder slowly on top of the ball- until the ball is completely covered in powder,...

A friend has the Henry with the brass finish, glove size lever, and curved buttplate.
It’s not fun from the bench with factory 300 gr1900 fps loads.
But with Unique and Lee 340 gr cast at 1300 fps,...

^^^^Exactly!^^^^^


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I found it!


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There’s a different one that I show my friends….


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I’m glad that Mrs. TC is ok!
Scary stuff indeed.


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At 70 confirmed hog kills, I would think that your combination is working just fine.
Keep on killing those hogs!


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Maybe- but on a related note, I’ve had a .22 size plastic/rubber strip like that for years.
The other day it disintegrated in my back pocket!


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I plan to carry it as a reload for my Rossi snub .38 Special. More comfortable in a pocket than the normal round speed loader.


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I squeezed a Turkish 8x57 stripper clip into becoming a .38 Special stripper clip- sort of.
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The circled holes are 3 shots at 100 yards from fireforming loads with the RCBS 145 Sil over 28 grs of 3031. They hit...

Today, I tried to stop a 5’ chicken snake from entering the yard. From the vibrating Snapper mower I tried to hit it in the head with my Wrangler .22 pistol…..
6 shots later, it tried to leave with...

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This little guy doesn’t like paparazzi....

Over on The great model 8 site they’d be happy to get that one!


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That actually reminds me of that time I loaded my .377” 250 gr Lees in .410 shotgun shells as a “sabot slug”……[emoji41]


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Yikes. That ain’t good.


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The sliding door mechanism looks like the one on an 1873 rifle that I just repaired.
Except this one was a crescent type(rifle) buttplate.


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I had the .410 solid frame pump that the 170 was based on and if you didn’t pump it “briskly” it was prone to hanging up like Pietro mentioned.
The Remington pump rifles were the best.


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