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I don't know, would it be fun to clout somebody while wearing a Go Pro or other hat camera? You might have the whole gang watching the fun. Anecdote Alert: As long ago as the 1960s while I was attending Georgia Tech, a vacationer was returning to Atlanta from Lake Lanier, towing his boat...

An overused cinema trope is the guy walking away from the scene of his latest derring do and pushing a button so the vehicle or building behind him out of focus blows up. I well remember the days when it was common to hear "I ain't gonna wear a seat belt, if I have a wreck I want to be thrown...

Got that, no double in view.

Didn't Jellicoe say "Something is dreadfully wrong with our ships". Or was it Beatty? Or anybody, really?

I remember it showing up in one issue of the Gil Hebard catalog. Note that the big black knob front and center is the case advance, the linear shuttle does not work off the handle stroke. Just as well, my CH AutoChamp linear progressive got to where its automatic advance would not hold...

It is just one of those words you can like the "taste" of. I learnt it from Jeff Cooper.

I was on a project with an air separation plant, big compressors for air and the produced oxygen and nitrogen. They had vent valves and stacks so the cylinders could depressurize when shut down. The horizontal stacks had a deflector plate spaced out in line with the pipe so any debris would...

Where would you shoot yourself with a .41 Rimfire Short to insure sudden demise?

If your gunmaker starts talking about "break-in" you should add the price of that much ammo to the cost of the gun. Somebody wrote that CZs were gymnasticated on a machine to wear in the contact surfaces. I have not seen a picture of the setup, don't know if that is so.

Black HDPE. I figure the black color is carbon black for opacity and anti-static. My Dillon and MEC powder hoppers are stained after long use. Powder left in a Redding was well on its way to rotting clear through their plastic in pretty short order. Old Star and Phelps loaders had tempered...

OK, that is one out of three possibilities. Try more powder. Speer's maximum for a hollow base wadcutter is 3.1 grains of Bullseye. If yours is a solid, you can go even higher.

I think everybody with a .38 and a loading press has tried the inverted wadcutter. Trivia Alert The original, pre-Speer Hydrashok was pretty much an inverted wadcutter with the center post added.

Inadequate obturation. Too low velocity even with common target load in short barrel. Flimsy paper hole looking like keyhole. All my guesses.

I had a Super 14 for IHMSA. I started out with a .357 Herrett but it kicked like a SOB, probably about like your .35 Rem, so I swapped the barrel for a .30-30. Not as much recoil, no case forming, common bullets.

"...of greater importance is simplicity of mechanism which ought to make no demand on the shooter's attention." W.W. Greener My house gun is a Sig Sauer P226 DA/SA for what a British author called "the convulsive response." Nothing to do but aim, and pull.

An Anglophile friend splurged on a Webley .450 BPE as an occasional woods hunting rifle and heavy centerfire plinker. Nowhere near as powerful as the Nitro Express, it is still a kicker. A "pair and a half" is enough fun for me. I was once sorely tempted by advertisements for Manton doubles...

I am a long way from P-chem but I figure the reaction rate of cold elemental nitrogen is bound to be lower than humid air. Which is mostly nitrogen, so if nitrogen is going to attack nitrocellulose, it is going to anyhow. If you want to get tough with it, check with your local welding supply...

As I recall, IMR 4831 was made in WWII for 20mm ammunition. It and surplus IMR 4895 got Hodgdon started in business. So yes, until surplus stocks ran out or visibly deteriorated and led Hodgdon to have imitations made, there was a lot of WWII powder being loaded for years. DuPont eventually...

Where on Haenel's www? I don't see it. AmmoTerra says it is not just an automatic safety, it is really a cocking slide. I have seen those mentioned on other European guns, I wonder what the effort to cock is. They show it in various calibers some rimmed, some rimless. I think the gimmick...

Yes. A friend said some Fiocchi 9mm would not cycle his Glock although it would his Canik. I chronographed it to find a lower average velocity than most others and a lot wider spread, so the low end under a low average was very soft, not even making Minor power factor.