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Hi, Gents! Question for you - I'm an old shooter and reloader, but have no experience with this cartridge..... A friend of mine asked me if the 17HMR would be okay for coyotes called within 100 yards. My initial reaction is that the bullet's not up to it - but my prejuidices on 17 bullets...

Okay, question for you guys. I've noticed that brass manufacturers make this brass, but last I heard, nobody's ever offered a commercially available firearm that uses it. I didn't think all that many WWII leftover StG44's were extant.... so where is this stuff used? I'm sure it's a fun...

Hi, Gents! It's time to start playing with Cowboy Action loads for practice.... best price I've found for wax bullets is $25/1000, postpaid. Being a tinkerer and tightwad (like a lot of handloaders) is there a cheaper solution that'd be worthwhile? I can get paraffin cheaply enough, but...

Sure, I'm a reloader, so I'm looking for those cheap pulled 8mm bullets today..... My M98 really likes the 196-grain "heavy" Mauser military rounds, but those are getting scarce. Anybody got a line on relatively cheap 8mm bullets for reloading? I'd still buy the 196-grain milsurp, if you...

Hi, Gents! I've found myself with a nice M98 Mauser, no brass, and a pile of .30-06 brass... so I should convert some of the '06 brass to 8mm Mauser, right? I've found bits and pieces of posted threads that cover some of this process, but not enough to patch it all together. Could you...

Hi, Gents! I'm restoring a WWII issue M1911A1 and need a surplus (used) barrel. I'm sure somebody out there has takeoff barrels, links, and pins in a bucket from customizing jobs...... but where are they? I remember those things going for $20 bucks, but I guess either I'm showing my age or...

Hi, Gents! I bought one of these some years ago on a whim, and started using it recently. It's a modified Hi-Power copy imported by Kassnar. After some shooting, I noticed that it didn't cycle smoothly, so I field stripped it and much to my surprise :what: the lug underneath the barrel...

Hi, Gents! I have a new project - a little Marlin .22 single shot that looks like it's lived in a garage for years (I think it DID!). There's fine rust on the barrel and elsewhere, not the kind you'd get with submersion, but the light surface rust in spots where somebody's grimy hands were...

Hi, Gents! I need some ideas - for loading blanks for Cowboy Action Shooting. I don't want to use black powder - :barf: - but I'm a handloader with plenty of .45 Colt brass and powder. My real question is - after dropping a powder charge into the casing, what then? I don't have a cutting...

Okay, I KNOW the cartridges aren't the same. What I'm wondering is whether the Rossi (as they were, before being sold) 92 Puma in .45 Colt has ANY mechanical differences for the .454 Casull other than the length of the chamber. Why? I reload 45 Colt for my Ruger, my Contender, and my .45...

Hi, Gents! *sigh* It's a long story..... Anybody know where I can get a reasonably priced US GI M1911 .45 ACP barrel? A take-off would be fine - I'm not smithing something new, I'm putting a WWII Milsurp back to original condition.......... Thanks in advance.

I'm in search of a GI barrel for my M1911A1 - and was surprised to see SARCO has them for $19.95. Has anyone here purchased one of these and have any feedback? I'd prefer to have a "genuine new surplus" barrel and keep it authentic, and not so sure you can get a milsurp .45 barrel for twenty...

Hi, Gents! I was wondering what favorites you guys have for reloading websites. I don't mean the manufacturers - those are fine - but I mean private websites. Right now I subscribe to www.ammoguide.com, which is a fine deal for $15 a year, has good dimensional diagrams, good load data that...

Hi, gents! Hey, I've lost that two-bit little "mag loader" for my Ruger 22 auto pistols that I used for YEARS.:mad: What I'm looking for is a single plastic molding, one-piece, that just pulls the button down. I don't need anything with moving parts. The one I had just slipped around the mag...

Hi, Gents! Iv'e found that my M98 likes the 196 grain heavy ball surplus ammo better than anything. For you deutschophiles, that's the Schweres Spitzgeschoss ammo. Sadly, my ammo source of this dried up long ago.:eek: Does anybody out there have a pile of pulled 196 grain bullets lying...

Hi, Gents! Hey, I have one of those Spanish 16's that's really an M93 Mauser rebarreled to the CETME cartridge.... Mine's in pretty fair shape but, dang it, my 51-year old eyes aren't up to lining up the nearly invisible v-notch with the equally difficult barleycorn front (and this rifle...

High Gents! I'm having problems reloading .357Mag; 158gr SWC in a Dillon 550B.:barf: Maybe half of these won't 'go' in a .357 case gauge. The ones that "won't go" all have a light bulge over the bullet itself. :cuss: I can iron out the tight spot by passing them back through a carbide...

Guys... Does anybody know what this is? Varmint Grenades sold under the label of Midsouth? http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item.asp?sku=000042234 Or is it something else?

Hey, does anybody have some good information on Varmint Grenade bullets? I mean from the physics standpoint - a core of sintered metal? Did I read that right? I get the theory - but only to the extent of a paragraph or two in an advertizement. I also get the catalog from...

Well, there I was, minding my own business at WallyWorld and there was a clearance tag on all the muzzle loading stuff..... So I picked up a pound of Pyrodex RS for nine bucks.... :D I can use this stuff in my charcoal burning .50 cal T/C White Mountain Carbine, but hey, shouldn't I be...