Recent content by KSCCHTrainer

What he said, if I remember right, after Rickman was outdrawn & shot was, "Said I didn't have much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use it." I have a friend with an almost identical Shiloh-Sharps in 45-110 and even with the proper BP load, that bugger will hammer your shoulder -...

#1, nobody else would buy it because supposedly Wolf ammo was Russian crap, .22 or not. #2, us 3 old geezers, using walkers, had to negotiate a crowd of well over 2000 people plus the Sheriff's security in and out. The vendor was clear across a huge, filled building from the front door and my...

5 years ago at a local gun show, I hadn't planned to buy anything, but there was a guy selling Wolf Match .22 and he had a whole pallet of it. He was trying to sell it for $2.00 a box any nobody was buying it. They were saying all Wolf .22 was Russian made and pure crap. I knew different...

I absolutely love the Hornady XTP's. I use them exclusively in my .44 special handloads for a Taurus model 445 2" revolver. Last year, a friend and I did some ballistic gel tests with them using pretty light loads. I wish I still had the pictures of the expanded bullets, but, using basically a...

Just checked the Dillon Precision website and they have an obit posted there so I'm pretty sure it's true. RIP Mike. Jim

That soldier just happens to be General Patton. General officers in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps along with Navy Admirials have always been allowed to carry whatever side arms they liked. Not so for the lower ranking officers and never legally for the enlisted men. Having spent 20...

Nobody in my family was ever anti-gun. I grew up learning gun safety and rifle shooting from age 5 onward. My father didn't have much respect for handguns, considering them too inaccurate to put food on the table but he got a close neighbor to teach me how to shoot a .22 revolver when I was 13...

THANKS! in all my 60+ years of smelting and casting I never thought of that one! Absolutely one of the best safety tips for outdoor smelting I've ever seen. I'll remember to pass that along to all the newbies I've been teaching lately. One other thing - I occasionally buy "range" lead from...

Yup - I actually HAD a critter in the lead disaster when I was smelting some soft lead and linotype a bit over a year ago. I had about half a cast iron dutch oven full of shiny alloy ready to pour ingots sitting on top of my propane burner out on the driveway. I had just gone back into the...

There are other hazards too. I had a totally freak accident occur a couple years ago when I was smelting a couple trays of printer's type along with a batch of range lead to make some hard alloy. It was melted and I had just skimmed the old bullet jackets and other garbage off the surface...

I picked up a Thompson Center "Encore" with 2 barrels. .223 and .44 Magnum. The .223 barrel is 24" and wicked accurate. Used, I've seen them go for $250 to $350 with 1 barrel. I got mine with the 2 barrels in a local pawn shop for just under $425. Not the cheapest singleshot but...

I've had a few different presses since I first started reloading back in 1976, to include RCBS, Dillon (RL-550), the Lee 1000 progressive and now the 4 stage Lee Turret press. I've scaled back to loading only .44 Special, .44 Magnum and .223 Rifle. At age 73, I no longer feel the "need for...

When I went into the Army in 1961, I was issued an M1 Garand Serial# 1015438. Yes, I'm 73 years old now, retired from the Army in 1981 and I still remember my first issued rifle's serial number and my Regular Army serial number was RA17600565. Those were drilled into you so much in Basic...

It will vary from rifle to rifle, but pretty decent accuracy can be obtained using Trail Boss and fairly heavy lead bullets in the 160-180 grain weights. As stated in previous post(s) you do need to slug your barrel and size the lead bullets appropriately. One thing to note (tongue in...

What you have already found, each rifle, even the same model from the same manufacturer has it's own kinks and quirks regarding ammunition that produces the best accuracy. Just because it works super in someone else's rifle doesn't necessarily mean it will in yours as you found out. There are...