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Sorry didn't see this 'til now. Wasn't referencing shooting steel, just your assertion that the .270 has more long range power and is flatter shooting. It is flatter shooting, but it does not have the same punch as a 30-06 at any range. Of course I'm not comparing bullets of the same weight...

Nice! Need more table! I was going to comment on the apparent shortage of single actions and mini revolvers, but maybe there's some more pics coming?;)

Wouldn't have noticed if you didn't mention. I can see now that it's the rimfire, from the picture. Figured he meant .17 Remington. I can't remember if that is the same size case head, though.

Likely that would be the case. Don't recall when the heavy bullets became popular. I think the military was the first to go heavy quite awhile back. Think you got it mixed up as you were typing. The 5.56x45 was developed as a new cartridge by Eugene Stoner and Remington. If I'm remembering...

Yup! I'll stick with my old Swede. You can dangle a long bullet out there like nobody's business, and match the CM ballistics out of a gun over 100 years old. And loaded to new gun pressures, handily leave it behind. I still giggle when guys buy a Creedmore and think somehow, that it's new...

While the .270 might be flatter shooting, it falls decidedly behind the 30-06 in power at long distance. Just doesn't have as good a BC bullets available for it. Even trying to keep it "fair" by picking the same brand and style of bullets, the longer heavier bullets of the 30-06 beat it out in...

Love hunting. Dad didn't, much, but I gather he probably did a little when he was younger. I always wanted to, but he had no interest. Got into it in my teens, with friends and by best friend's Dad. Quit for a bit as I was someplace where it was mostly farmland. But now, just couldn't live...

I read the Outdoor Life article, but it could not substantiate that hunters have higher than average levels of lead. I'd also like to know how they got "microscopic" lead particles to penetrate hide, and meat. That's just not reality. Powder can be imbedded in skin of soft, thin skinned...

I don't know how most of the game comes into being donated. But it'd be disingenuous to say that it comes loaded with lead fragments before it's butchered and packaged.

I'm curious about how sloppy a butchering has to be that injestion of bullet fragments is common? Typically I shoot once. The cup and core, or lead alloy bullet blows through the lungs, and/or the heart or aorta, and pulmonaries, and continues through, to be lost in the landscape. May pass...

Leaving a gun spring compressed won't do any harm. Working them is worse. I probably have one or 2 that have been compressed for a couple decades.

I wouldn't describe myself as a one issue voter, but as soon as you start limiting what kind of firepower citizens can possess, it's pretty easy to start limiting what they can say, and how they can gather.

No one should get too comfortable with restrictions on freedom. Government records exist in the US if you have a short barreled rifle, suppressor, or 50 year old select fire gun. Assets are seized and doors kicked in, for rope growing outside fer cryin' out loud. Check out where the countries...

NZ boards aren't the only ones. Expect LE on all of them. Think of exemptions as the big brother policy equivalent to lube. Just makes it a little easier to get stretched out... Eventually there is no exemptions, or at least no one alive yet that can take advantage of them. Typical...

Just a note on "multiple rackings" that some people have mentioned. If your ejector is broken, you short stroke the slide, or the extractor didn't grab the rim (rough chamber, bad spring, broken claw, too stiff...), you still have a loaded gun. Relying too much on the flawless working of a...

I'd like a 38 Special. Running a heavy-ish cast bullet at moderate velocity seems like a natural fit.

Maybe I'm asking a little too much out of a small open-top. After all, a 380 is nothing to stick the incautious finger in front of! I'm familiar with the mechanics of a large meplat. I'm not sure that a FN non expanding bullet does give anything up on penetration. They track straighter, and the...

I would like a little more snap than a .380. What would be ideal is maybe a .327 Federal, or 32-20 chambering, if it fits. .327 might be pretty hot in that gun though, as it's pressure is pretty high. I wouldn't mind the 32-20 at all...

I believe the bullet diameter is .363 or something oddball like that. If there is enough thickness in the cylinder, I don't see why something a little snappier couldn't have been used. I like rimmed cartridges for revolvers, but the 9mm seems like it would have been a good fit.

That is pricey. Probably about twice as much as a nice Uberti 1851 (or something) in 38 Spl, that I handled about 10 years ago. I believe that one was a octagon barrel and still had a loading lever on it, too. Or maybe it was a Dragoon? I don't see an ejector rod or a loading lever on that...