Recent content by artee

History. I think people want a touchstone with the past. They want a way to relate to the soldier and trooper on the plains; the frontiersman in the mountains. Back when the "new" 1895 Marlin came out, those were my reasons for choosing it and I accepted the consequences. It's capabilities...

On the topic of "deer loads" for the .410, kbob I'll offer this. Brenneke offered a 3 in slug that the Ohio guy used and tested. See his site, really great site and info. They also now have it in 2 1/2 in. It seems to be the same load with a shorter hull and wad for that hull. I have used...

Those interested in hunting with a 410 Levergun should check out this Ohio hunter's page. He used a Model 94/410 about 10 years ago. It looks like his last 410 entries were about 2009 but he use to answer my emails on the topic. Nice guy. http://mcb-homis.com/ and specifically...

BJJ223. Yes, That is what it comes down to. You could handle the zero as you suggest. I think I'd try it and see if the 'real world' matched the math. On a practical basis, you likely won't be able to see, with a true 50 yard zero that it isn't a 100 yard zero. The difference in zero's on...

I don't know that the others are or are not. Nice picture, though. I'm taking into account it's an M1 (which therefore gives me a fixed height for the line of sight compared to the bore, or 1 inch); that's it shooting Greek Ball with an average of 2750 fps at the muzzle and a BC of about...

For a muzzle velocity of 2750 fps, Sea level (0 ft elevation) 29.92" and 60 deg F" Inches 50 yd 0 100yd -.2" NOTE the decimal! 200yd -5.0" 300yd -16.2" 500yd -64.1" 600yd -105" For MOA Divide the drop from line of sight by the yardage in hundreds (ie 300...

Over 10 years I've used a lot of the .308 165 grain Hornady version (sold as a hunting bullet) in 2 M1's and they have worked fine with no 'blown' groups at 300 yards as you might suspect from a blown/mangled nose. Very few rounds have ever been extracted once chambered, but of those none...

9mm Mak is in the area of .365 inch. Of Sierra, Hornady, and Speer jacketed bullets, two measure .364 and one measures .365. Seems like the US manufactures see a bit of variation in the foreign barrels and the metric conversion they are producing bullets for. Sounds like Lee got the...

We're not talking about 2 1/2 in chambers. The shotgun in question is 12ga 2 3/4 in chamber. Ithaca Model 37 12 gauges never had a 2 1/2 chamber. The ammo in question seems to be 2 1/2 in. It's safe to use the 2 1/2 in AMMO in the 2 3/4 in GUN. Model 37's have a talent for randomly...

One formula for BC is sectional density divided by form factor. This is very useful for "first cut" approximations. With the "known" BC for the 320 at .189 and the 250gn having .78125 of the sectional density of the 320gn, the BC for the 250gn becomes (.78125) x (.189) = .1476 or rounding...

Lot of reviews of various versions of this pistol. A lot of companies have KWC put their name on a version and sell it. They've been out for about 4 or 5 years. All the various models have produced 10 shot chrono results of about 310 fps. The velocity drops quickly from 320 ish fps down to...

Shoot what you have first. Shoot your 'bird' barrel with the truglo sights. As a standard, at 50 yards you should see about 2 inch groups. You should be able to lay a standard playing card over the holes and cover them. When using a 9in paper plate, your max distance is when the holes are...

Change your target. Not all "shoot and see" style targets are equal. The original seems to work best. The "dirty birds" by Birchwood Casey are pretty good. They give a bigger "ring of color" around your hole. BLACK holes in BLACK targets just don't make it. Better yet, STOP using this...

Part II: Today, to get range NOT using a laser, I would use Google Earth, a hiking GPS, a topo or scope subtended angle. If you can't get a range of +- 10 yards over a 1000 yards with either a Garmin Hiking GPS (such as the Map60 or it's replacements, the 62 or 64) or using Google Earth then...

To the original poster: Back in the day that those 2000 yard (or 1600 or whatever) sights were designed, the infantry theory was point and area targets. A point target would be hitting something very specific (generally, a man... but maybe a head) whereas an area target was just that, a...