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I've tried off and on to develop a good load for a Marlin 336C (70s era) in .30-30 Winchester using Hornady FTX bullets (160gr) and LeveRevolution powder. I've worked through a variety of charge weights and the best grouping I've come up with is a little under 4". Factory Hornady LeveRevolultion...

Looking for recommendations on some shooting mats that would suffice for what I'm calling non-average-sized shooters. My daughter and I are going to an Appleseed shoot later this year and I want to upgrade from the rug fragments we used last year to a real product because both of our elbows and...

I am looking for some opinions or recommendations on a rifle and caliber that would be both legal for deer in Ohio and have reasonable recoil and other characteristics for youth hunting. I'm looking for something to get my 10 year old daughter started. Being from Pennsylvania, the usual go-to...

Any recommendations on a gun vise for < $100? This will be used for cleaning, scope mounting/adjusting, and very light gunsmithing (e.g spring replacements, etc). I want to get something that's decent at the lower-end pricing. I looked at the MTM and Tipton offerings as well as the Lyman Revolution.

Hi all! Spent the weekend at the NRA Annual Meeting & Expo in Louisville. Being packed shoulder-to-shoulder of the larger firearms community was quite an interesting time as always. Wanted to share a few things I learned from the Hodgdon rep at their booth. First is that Hodgdon has no plans to...

On my LNL-AP, the "break away" cam wire keeps breaking away from the plunger that holds it into position. I don't know if the plastic arm at the top of the press is fatigued or what, but it the wire pops out with the tiniest bit of force. I know I've seen this before online, but my search skills...

I picked up a nice older leather M1907-style sling last weekend at a show to replace the beat-up one on my Marlin 336C. It needs a little cleaning and I was wondering what people do to maintain their real leather slings? Reading stuff online seems to be all over the place from saddle soaps to...

Anyone have any information on a Western Auto Revelation 336 shotgun? Researching one for my brother-in-law. It's only stamped Revelation 336 and is a .410 single-shot. From http://gun-data.com/western_auto_revelation.html it references it as a Stevens 51 / Savage 951 manufacture. If I look on...

Anyone here a member at South Cuyahoga Sportsmen's Association in Medina Co, Ohio? I've been trying to figure out if they're accepting new members and how to join. The only contact on the site is an e-mail address that bounces back with "mailbox full". The join info on their website is 18 months...

Moved last month and we're finally getting settled in. Part of the work we're doing to the house is partitioning the basement from one large space into two smaller ones. One side is going to be my "hobby" space at one end my my wife's at the other. The other side is going to be the kids toy...

Nosler released the 8th edition of Reloading Guide. Looks like a MidwayUSA exclusive for now. https://twitter.com/noslerinc/status/671491291583123457

Anyone here in the Akron, OH area? I'm relocating there for work. Doing a little advance recon on the 'net isn't getting me very far. Lots of places that seem to be "trap" clubs, but I'm looking for places to shoot pistol, rifle, and maybe skeet. Mostly interested in a club-style organization...

Short and sweet question - how would you pack up all your loading equipment to be stored for a few months in a storage facility that may not be climate-controlled? We're going to be be putting our house on the market here soon and as part of our prep and declutter I am packing up the "man...

My wonderful wife bought me an Alpha Shooting Chrony a few years ago as a gift. I've decided that I want to "upgrade" it to the Gamma Master, mostly because I want the remote control. For the trivial cost difference between Beta and Gamma it's a no-brainer to me. Has anyone ever done an...

I was helping my dad do a detailed clean of his Marlin 336C in .35rem. Running a function test of running a round from the mag into the chamber and then ejecting it, I noted that the primer has a light dimple from the firing pin pushed into it. I did more testing and found that it happens as the...

Does anyone have some recommendations on a "budget" youth rifle in .22LR for a small youth? My daughter is now old enough and mature enough to shoot and I want to get a rifle for her. However she is quite small for her age. My Marlin 989M2 is a few inches too long for her even at bench rest but...

I'm doing some clean-up of my basement and part of that is my reloading area. I have 3-4 boxes (50 ea) of primed .357mag cases that were pulls that I did of some late 70s/early 80s loads that my grandfather loaded. The loads were ridiculously excessive (flames out of the muzzle, displaced...

Anyone ever had a custom-made shellplate by Hornady for the LNL-AP system? Wondering about the quality of them. I'm interesting in taking up reloading .35 Remington and while Hornady makes a die set for it, they don't make a standard issue shellplate. Their solution is a custom-cut shellplate...

Subject says it all. I have been wanting to find some of the new IMR4451 and test it with my .30-06 loads but can't find any locally. I did find some IMR4166 but haven't seen any real results by others. Looking to see if either of these are improvements over my go-to IMR4895. I'm trying to...

Who out there is loading .30-30 with LEVERevolution powder? I'm looking at working up some loads of that behind the Hornady 160gr FTX bullets. Looking in Hornady's 9th Ed, they're showing a min charge of 27.7gr and a max of 37.0gr. The Hodgdon site lists only a range of 32.0gr to 35.5gr. I...