Recent content by Sharps Shooter

For all the reasons already posted, I'll add another vote for the 10/22. But does anyone know if Browning still builds their little .22 semiauto? And if so, is it in the $150 - $300 price range bottomuvthemap asked about? I'm mostly just curious. My dad had one of those little Brownings and...

I draw "pictures" of what the "sight picture" should look like, including the target, for my grandsons - the oldest of which is almost 10. Reactionary targets are good if they're allowed where you shoot. Vanilla wafers work well for BB and pellet guns. Over-ripe fruit and full plastic water...

I load my own, but I use 165-grain Speer Grand Slams in my .300WM for mule deer. In my experience, a deer's lungs and heart are turned to red pudding when they're shot with those 165-grain bullets from my .300WM at anything less than 100 yards. I can only imagine what a rib shot with a...

I gotta disagree with you W.E.G. and jpwilly, and I think you're reading the wrong books stevetford. "This is one of the most successful Magnum rifle cartridges ever developed." "Remington took the best features of the other 7mm Magnums and introduced their 7mm Magnum in their...

"I have a Few Granules of 2400 left in my gun. (4" Taurus Tracker) I assume it's from the pressure dropping after the bullet leaving the barrel while the powder is still burning" Could be. It sounds like a reasonable theory to me anyway. Most of my experience with 2400 was putting 22 grains...

"Okay, i won't worry about the unburnt powder then, if it seems to be normal." Whoa, wait a minute.:D I don't concider unburnt 2400 powder normal and I've literally sent tens of thousands of .44 Magnum bullets down range with 2400 in metalic silhouette matches and required practice for those...

Yep, that Jerry Miculek is pretty darn good with a revolver. Tiger Woods is pretty darn good with a golf club too. But I don't play golf, so there is NO good reason for me to want a set of golf clubs. I said, "to each his own," friend.:)

Yeah, there's a few. In addition to the Ruger single actions with the interchangable cylinders Kimber1911 wrote about, there are some double action revolvers chambered for the 9mm. I think Smith and Taurus build some, and I'm pretty sure even Ruger use to build 9mm SP-101s. As far as I...

My family and I have been killing deer for a long, long time. So most of the local butchers who use to cut up our deer have either died or retired. There are still a few around, but I don't know them personally and wouldn't trust them to take care of our venison right. Then there are those...

True ambidexterity is not the great ability many people seem to think it is. We have a daughter who is a rare, truly ambidextrous person. She was diagnosed about 10 years ago. Hokkmike hit the nail right on the head - our daughter, who's 29 now, exhibits every one of those 7 characteristics...

I'll kind of need a hint as to what cartridge you're loading before I can be of much help.:confused: And what do you mean by "practice loads?" Do you mean "practice" as in you're practicing the reloading steps by building dummy rounds. That's not a bad idea, it's just that I'm not following...

"If you are going to hotrod the .45LC in a Ruger, just make dead certain (1) that you have a full-size Blackhawk or Vaquero, not the more recent down-sized version of the Vaq and (2) that neither you, your heirs or random third parties will ever put these loads into a lesser gun." Exactly...

"Just to help make this more clear.. 7mm what? There is a whole family of 7mm calibers that are actually quite different in capabilities. 7mm-08, 7mm mauser, and etc at length." As 41magsnub said, there's a whole family of 7mm (.284") calibers. I even have a 7mm pistol - it's a Remington...

Beowolf, you do know when loading cartridge cases with black powder you can't have left over space in the cases after seating the bullets, don't you? In fact I, and most other black powder cartridge shooters I know of like the black powder charges slightly compressed. How would anyone here know...

It’s probably been 30 years, but I remember once when I finished a casting session I still had 4 or 5 pounds of molten lead in the pot so I poured it into my ingot mold pan and set the pan out on the driveway to cool. Then I forgot about it for a few days. It might have rained or snowed before...