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If you were breaking into a home in the middle of the night, what sound would cause you to foul your britches? The sound of a round getting jacked into a pump shotgun? The sound of 1911 slide being racked? Any others? IMHO, it would be a tough choice between the pump shotty and the 1911.

I agree with AH-1 I've tried BSA, Simmons and Tasco - both fixed and variable power. None of them are good enough to even put on a 22. I eventually just put the best of them (the Tasco) on my air rifle. Like everything else, you generally get what you pay for unless you go crazy with buying...

Like most other topics... you will get as many opinions as there are people replying to the thread. My old Savage/Stevens and Winchester autos were accurate but they were so prone to jamming I had to feed them single shot. They were a PITA so I got rid of them. I've got a Marlin bolt action...

I gots a new Remmy 22 auto-getum. I've generally been sceptical about 22 autos reliability for several years but I recently shot my son's old Rem nylon stock 22. It never jammed so I got enough confidence in Remington to get a new model 552. The fit and the finish are great. The wood is...

It's been my experience H-110 and 296 are very foul burning in my model 25-5 45 Colt even at near max loads with magnum primers using Hornady's recipe for 250 grain bullets at 900 FPS. In fact, crud built so badly up between the cylinder and the frame, it seized up after about 30 rounds. I...

I like Unique but I have a 3 1/2" bbl compact 45 so I decided to use a faster burning powder to avoid possible muzzle flash/blast. Red Dot burns very clean and works well for me. I suppose Bullseye would work as well.

If you want something faster burning, you might consider using Unique. It's been my experience that the Winny/Hodgden stuff is extremely foul burning. Regardless which powder you use, it would be best to start with the most conservative loading.

I've have too many Winchester duds to trust them anymore. I've had good luck with CCI. What part of Arkansas are you in? By the way, you beat me to the THR user name "Arkie" by a couple of weeks.

USSR, I thought about a possible headspace problem but I don't have any trouble with Rem or Fed brass. Also, the odds of all three of my 30-30 and both my 30-06 rifles having headspace problems are pretty slim. Two of the rifle have less than 200 rounds run thru them. Winchester brass...

Any of them except Winchester is ok. It's been my experience that even Winny factory ammo's brass blows out, usually at a spot just above the head. I would have suspected the rifle's chamber but the blow-outs happen with all my 30-30's and 30-06's

The saying "it's like sticking a wet noodle up a wildcat's @$$" comes to mind. My Mark II is the onliest gun that I don't field strip and clean after every time I use it because it is such a PIA.

I believe the story cuz I've seen kids do stupider things than that. I remember seeing a bunch of boys taping the butt of a .22 round onto the muzzle of a BB gun with electricians tape. It wasn't too accurate but it did fire the round reliably and the .22 case didn't rupture. When they...

I've got the same problem. By the time I've got the gun to my shoulder, the barrel on the bird (or clay), and advanced it to get the lead, the bird is way out of range. When I try to rush it, I just get flustered. It amazes me some guys like my dad could seem to take their time and yet be so...

1. Unique 2. Red Dot 3. Blue Dot or 2400 I avoid the Win and Hodgden stuff. It has been waaay too foul burning for me.

I would definitely stay away from HS6. It has been my experience that it is extremely foul burning in every load that doesn't use heavy bullets at max velocities. Even under those conditions, it isn't clean burning and it has large amounts of muzzle flash and muzzle blast (even in long...