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I won a Taurus Judge recently in a raffle. It's the one with a 2.6" long cylinder (for 2.5" shells) and a 6.5" barrel. I will probably shoot mostly .45 Colt cartridges in it, which I already reload for. But I've been reading about reloading shotshells, and I have several pounds of Alliant...

I took half a year off from Bullseye* shooting, plus last summer when I did get to the range I mostly practiced rifle. Now I'm back in Bullseye and my scores suck bigtime. Last year I was shooting in the mid-250's, and now I'm having trouble breaking 200. It's coming back, but what's really...

I have a set of Lee .223 dies that I'm generally happy with. But I'm thinking of getting a small-base die for the first reloading of range-pick-up cases, and especially for steel cases. I'm loading for a Mini-14. If I get the RCBS small base sizing die, is there any reason to get the...

My new ranch rifle shoots several inches low with the iron sights. (the windage is right on) So I got out the owners manual to see which way to turn the adjuster -- it says you need to loosen one of the windage screws first (just one so you dont lose the adjustment) and then turn the top screw...

Has anybody here tried Alliant Power Pro 2000-MR powder yet? Does it reduce copper fouling? I *think* it might be the exact same powder as Hodgdon's CFE-223, and both companies buy it (SMP-something) from St. Mark's and relabel it. I could be mistaken.

I'm resizing some .223 brass that I picked up at the range Tuesday. I've been reloading pistol cartridges for years, and I've loaded a few .30-06's, but not much. This is my first time with .223, and my first time to seriously load any bottleneck cartridge. I'm using cheap Lee dies, as is my...

It looked like a double-barrel 12-gauge or maybe 10-gauge with a third large centerfire rifle barrel (maybe .45-70) underneath. At the end of the show they said it was two .600 Nitro Express and a .577 (presumably .577 Snider or .577 Nitro Express) Supposedly made about 100 years ago, but I...

This is the right forum, isn't it? I'm looking for a new red dot sight for a .22 target pistol to replace the POS reflex sight I've got on there now*. Having been burned once with a kind-of expensive sight, I know that price is not a good indicator of quality (although ridiculously low price...

Last time I loaded a box of .38 Special wadcutters, I had 5 case mouths crack when I expanded them (they were already primed by the time I noticed, so I loaded them anyway and marked the cases with a Sharpie for disposal later.) I just use the same couple of hundred cases over and over and over...

I've been having trouble lately with my S&W 15-4 not setting off the primers until the 2nd or sometimes 3rd hit. The first thing I did was make sure the strain screw was tight (it wasn't, I tightened it and the problem went away briefly then came back) The primers appear to be seated below...

Was transferring some WSF from an 8 pound metal can to an empty plastic powder bottle, and it kind of "flomped" out into the funnel and turned over onto the dirty carpet. Spilled a little over half a cup. :cuss: I scraped it up with a credit card, sifted out the dirt and dog hair, and...

half-jacket hollowpoints. I bought a box of 'em on sale a couple of years ago and haven't used them yet. Does anybody know what the design velocity range is for these? I asked Remington and they said "we do not give reloading data". I told them I'm not asking for load data, I'm asking for...

...suck. I bought a set of .38 S&W dies, and instead of buying Lee dies I got Hornady this time. Never bought premium dies before. The brand new carbide sizing die makes scratches in my brass deep enough I can feel them with my thumbnail. I cleaned the die with some lighter fluid and a...

I'm thinking about using my Cabela's Bucks to get a Forster CO-AX press; one of the main reasons is its spring-loaded universal shell plate. I'm always messing around with weird brass and have dies that are close enough but no shellholder. Will the CO-AX handle cases with thin rims and no...

The UPS guy just showed up with my first Colt revolver: a 5" Police Positive with the short cylinder (.38 Colt N.P. a.k.a .38S&W) and original checkered wood grips. It has a nice black finish with just minor scratch and scuff marks but looks unfired. Serial number is 1101xx. I'm guessing it...

Someone just answered my Craigslist ad about wanting scrap lead. He's got hundreds of pounds of wheel weights and asked what I'm paying for them. I hadn't given it much thought because I never expected anyone to answer. :o I know the price of lead is *way* down from what it was a year ago...

I cast some 120 grain .356 bullets a few weeks ago with a new mold, and they are slightly wrinkled. I scrubbed the mold again, even though I had previously degreased it, and I also stirred a scrap of tin (about 2 ounces, I don't know the alloy but it rang like a bell when struck with a hammer)...

Would it help with the horrendous trigger pull? (I'm spoiled from shooting single-action revolvers.) The BHP already has the magazine safety removed -- I didn't remove it, it came from the importer that way. I'm pretty sure it has a 32# or heavier spring installed. The hammer is hard to...

It's made by Norma, so I suspect it's expensive as all get-out. It's right at the transition between magnum pistol powders and rifle powders (kind of like Lil'Gun), and the only Norma powders I can find are for rifle. I've tried searching for it, but all I get is endless links to powder...

I was looking thru Cartridges of the World and I think I might have figured out how this controversy may have gotten started. There isn't a cartridge officially named ".45 Long Colt", but there was a short version of the .45 Colt from 1870's to about 1930. It was the ".45 Colt Government", and...