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Sorry to hear about the sights, 6.5. Ruger's inconsistent QC is baffling -- and yet I keep buying the damned things.
You know what they say about insanity:
‘Insanity is doing the same thing over...

Joe, the PC boolits would not be my first choice but I didn't have any others cast. I agree on the PC taking up valuable lube groove real estate, especially considering the lube has to control 28...

Made up a sample of five rounds of the Lee bullet, powder coated and hand-lubed with SPG over 40 grains Olde Eynsford FFg drop-tubed, wad seated and compressed by bullet seating. These ought to be...

David, thanks for posting that article. This is bringing back a lot of happy memories of being a kid in the late Sixties eagerly devouring the newest Herter's catalog. George was an incredible...

Joe, I will load some with Olde Eynesford, just because it is the right thing to do.8-)
The more I think about these issues and this thread the more embarrassed I am that it did not occur to me the...

Lyman 51st shows 1700-1800 but yes, that's probably much too fast for range scrap. I have some loaded way down around 1300 and will see how they do. Taking a closer look, I do see some leading....

Delkal, I agree. I think a moderator has to do it. I don't know how.

Fellas thanks. The rifle was barreled with a Douglas .375 groove barrel and can be loaded as a .38-55 or a .375 Winchester. It was custom built by a retired Army armorer and gunsmith in Iowa for a...

Grooves measure .375.

Thanks Arnie. Sorry for the double post.

I recently came into a Marlin 336 rebarreled with a 28-inch Douglas .375 barrel with 1:14 twist and chambered to .38-55. I sized some Lee 379-250s RFs cast of range scrap and tumbled them in liquid...

I'd bet that's the batch mine came from. I will report once I have it in hand. Glad to hear you didn't perceive any barrel choke.
Were the throats on the .45 Colt cylinder similar to the throats on...

Thanks Doug. It appears Ruger just made a small run of stainless Bisleys in .45 Colt/.45 ACP, as the usual suspects -- Bud's, Grabagun, Kygunco -- have them in stock and there are several on...

Are they running close to optimum lately? Have a new .45 Colt Bisley incoming and wonder what to expect -- and hope to hell it is not undersize throats and a choked barrel where it screws into the...

I had the Taurus snub for a while and was pretty impressed with it. I am playing with .30 Super Carry currently, but might well go back to it. It is a very flexible cartridge that seems to punch...

Tom, I would also look for inspiration by researching the original military loads for the Potsdams. Is paper patching allowed in N-SSA skirmishes?
Bill

That makes sense. I should have specified all bullets of the same finished diameter just to remove another variable.

Okay, say I worked up accurate loads for a .44 Special with the RCBS Keith using a powder coated boolit. If I were to then shoot a group with the same boolit conventionally lubrisized and another...

I would buy the 00 size -- .33 inch. Don't give up any more energy or penetration than you must.

Good points, fellas. In this neck of the woods, the shotgun sports -- skeet, trap, clays -- seem to be holding their own. There are quite a few participants in NRL and other rimfire, same for various...

Leadhead, I still don't understand what happened to handgun silhouette. It is easier for me to form a theory of why cowboy action shooting has fizzled.

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Lar, that's very interesting.

It's fun to have options. I'd rather have them than not. My 28-gauge CZ Bobwhite G2 has three-inch chambers, but all I am currently using it for is skeet, so no need.
As far as the three-inch 20...

Thanks for the intel, quilbilly. Hey, I have been to Quilcene and did some hiking in Scouts along the Dosewallips. Gorgeous country, if on the damp side. 8-)