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Instructions for entropy's tool say Brownells Stuck Choke Removal Tool is a heavy duty, expandable wrench for use when your normal choke removal methods fail. It allows removal of chokes stuck due to over-tightening, rust or dirt. Although the choke may be damaged during removal, careful use of...

When I was working in Nevada, I carried along a .22. I asked at the local sporting goods store about a place to shoot. The dealer laughed and said "It's a desert, shoot anywhere you won't hit anybody." But there was a berm and a rickety bench set up on the edge of town.

SAAMI maximum is 28000 psi but even Buffalo Bore agrees that 18000 is plenty for the Trapdoor Springfield. Nobody else is publishing their pressures but I have HEARD that the old standard 405 gr bullets are usually loaded lighter than the 300 gr "express" types. The main reason not to use...

I once got in a wet case of primers. It wasn't full of water but was damp throughout. Since I collected it within minutes of delivery, it had to have been wetted somewhere back up the road. I remembered some tests that the old 1911 Tech Talk email group had run, so I opened a flat of primers...

The old club range here was on about five acres. But it was well bermed - construction by the city parks and recreation division for use by club and PD - and faced out over the Tennessee river. Few complaints until we got pushed out by real estate developers in city government.

And Mr Browning's next effort was on a RFP by France to FN. So he designed a 9mm, which D. Saive kept working on after his death. The final product was a nice pistol but the feckless Frogs reneged on the deal and came up with their own gun in their own calibre. Working with the military...

That is just the worst of a lot of scary stuff. What is a "double squib?" Do you mean a double CHARGE of powder? If you want to keep loading, get all your components and dies straightened out and operate in batch mode on the turret. Don't twirl the turret in operation, just use it to store...

Fictional locales are common and don't bother me much. Like "Farmington" in 'The Shield', home of crooked cops. Or "Darrowby" in 'All Creatures Great and Small'.

I made a mistake there. I saw CCI go up, I should have bought some WW before they equalized them, but I didn't. I had just ordered some Federals for my soft spring revolvers. I have mail ordered primers from Academy: Pro: Store price (less 5% because I have their card), no add on for...

I have the book and am just amazed at some of the stuff being done in the first half of the 20th. Special chapter on calculations with the slide rule. There was a Gun Digest article, The Trajectory Chronograph. The idea being that given the ballistic coefficient and the POI at various ranges...

You see a lot of old velocity readings at 78 feet. The electro-mechanical chronographs needed a lot of dwell time to get precise readings. So the start screen was at one yard, the stop screen at 51 yards, 150 feet apart, so the velocity was listed as for the midpoint. The ballistic pendulum...

I was looking at those. My previous attempt was the DAA/MR Bulletfeeder version. Negligible step.

I flare generously so as to avoid scraping the bullet. I seldom pick up 9mm brass, no interest in "case life." I do wish Dillon would join the "M" club. The aftermarket part I bought does not have enough step to start a bullet.

Maybe so. But Norma had brass on the market two years before there were factory loads and factory rifles, so at the beginning it was pretty well something of a wildcat. And at any rate, it is not the overload that the Weatherby is.

The Army soon backed off the 40 grain load, even before going with the shorter .45 Government for commonality with the Schofield. The 1909 New Service round, a .45 LC case with larger rim for simultaneous extraction was only 738 fps as loaded with RSQ smokeless powder, about the same as the...

Probably some enthusiast publication of the day, long since discarded. Ken Waters did not exactly say that was a design criterion just that apparently it was meant for rechambering sufficiently strong .30-06 rifles. But in those days we were still operating under the assumption that a "high...

At one time the 1909 was popular for deluxe sporters because of that quality and feature set. I read repeated accounts of them being used for .280 Remington. No bolt face work and little if any magazine work. It got to the point that nimrods were reforming WW .270 brass to .280 because it was...

The bolt face has been widened* and the side rails/magazine lips have probably been widened for the bigger cartridge. No going back on this one. *In those days the P14 .303 was popular for belted magnum conversions, its bolt face was already wide enough. Surely Norma had mechanical engineers...

The BORE diameter is indeed .256", the GROOVE diameter is .268". So a .257" bullet should not have dropped in at all. The muzzle is appreciably worn. A counterbore sounds like a good DIY if you have a lathe. The barrel length is only 17.7"/45 cm so there is not a lot of scope for sawing it...

You have SR 80 powder? Do be careful, it was hazardous to Elmer's guns. Phil Sharpe shows velocity but not pressure.