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Well, if anyone was interested in my premade cartridges, I'll throw some pics up here for help's sake. First, I select a sticky note, which happens to be 2x the size needed to make a cart. tube, after halving it, I attach a little bit of masking tape. paper tape is important, because it rips...

Report: I went to the range to shoot my new pietta 1851 colt navy. I had premade some cartridges for it so I didn't have to tote around powder and balls and .. etc. They were simply a closed paper tube with ball followed by wad, followed by powder. (carefully measured, 25 gr. loads) It...

From my old thread: http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=443227&highlight=browning+1922 where I effected some repairs to a pistol of my fathers, here are the pictures: The gun itself: Nice angle: The repaired firing pin: and a cool shot of the bore (dirty still, it...

I live in florida, and have been set on getting a black powder revolver when I turn 21 in a few months, but recently, a shadow of doubt has been cast over my knowledge of the law... How old do you have to be to purchase a replica colt 1851 navy revolver? (subtitle: Do you have to be 21?) They...

This weekend I decided to take it onto myself to repair the browning 1922 that has been sitting INOP for more than 2 years. The brittle firing pin had snapped off one day at the range, or maybe after, because we didn't know never to dry fire it. You think a cz52 pin is weak? hah! Either way...

I will do my best to be completely objective about this, though that is not a human function. A couple friends and I, who are all over 18, and non-felons, decided to head out to the range to celebrate this rainy valentines day at the local F&W public range in the city where I go to school...

Another thread got me thinking about my current predicament, that really isn't a predicament, other than having a crap ton of ammo and not really wanting to shoot it for this reason. Either way, I have a yugo m24/47 mauser, in 8x57, that I, hate me now, put a scope and turned bolt on. I...

I may be finding my way into a bushmaster M17 that I would more than likely be selling to buy more ammo for myself. Probably for around $750.00 I could list it on gunbroker, but I'd like to see if anyone here would be interested first. I prefer the more personal touch that these sales provide...

So this while I was back in jax on holiday this weekend, and in between working around the house and watching the jags win, and the seminoles win even better, I decided to embark upon the long delayed mosin-nagant stock sights improvement project. First let me thank RonE, without his courteous...

And I need your help, THR'rs. It looks like this new present to my father, and with rising costs of ammo, I might be looking at handloading rifle rounds for 8mm mauser and for 22-250. (MAYBE 7.62x25tok) Question 1 - with these calibers, is this cost effective compared to prices on ammo...

So I was tinkering around in the garage, and decided that I wanted to build a new stock for my stevens 87a. I wanted a thumbhole, or dragunov style stock for the ergonomics and the neat way it looks. I grabbed some good wood, and got to tracing and cutting. I haven't finished varnishing it, or...

I was at the range today, plinking away with my mosins, and not doing poorly, thanks to the new ATI stock that a member here so kindly gave me a great deal on. I shot one, with my m44 and saw what looked to be a gigantic dust cloud at the end of the range, well larger than all the others...

watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-U4uOz1_Jo&NR=1 I really want the rounds that blow up houses. but importantly, how do we counter fear mongering activism like this, what can we do to discredit the stiff arm one handed .50 barrett shooters that just close their eyes and...

I decided that friday was a good day to go to the range and plink away for a few hours. I started off shooting my .22s, the savage which I managed to sight into nickle sized groups at 50 yards. (scope, of course. I'm not that good) Then with my old model 87a, I managed to get away with one or...

I was looking at sights from my mosin the other day, and I had a weird thought. Now I want to buy an extra sight set for my m44 (cheaper!) and practice a little metallurgy to turn them into peep/rabbit ears sights. Does anyone have experience doing this? It can't be too hard...

Excuse the crudeness of this explanation, but I was wondering, and maybe with the help of the learned here on THR... +P loads by (excuse the crudeness) just yanking out the bullet and changing to a different powder, or adding powder (of the same kind) to the case. Of course only to be used...

Personally, I wish they could have been made another way. The old ones are worn, prone to jams, the new ones are stiff and awkward until break-in is complete. They are wide, and require a very interesting and complicated bolt design. Don't get me wrong, love the 10-22, but just looking at...

I'm waiting on the bolt to return from the land of when is it going to come back, though. here are some pictures of the finished product. I just put an NCstar I had laying around on top of it, and did a little woodwork to make it look nice. The hand guard was a last minute...

I have been shooting my nifty 91/30 for a few years now, and it has always ben consistently precise. Kind of like a laser. On my most recent trip to the range I noticed something alarmingly different. The rifle was shooting 3 feet high at 100 yards on the lowest sight setting. It has never...

After fiddling with the sights on the mauser, it is precise, very much so, but I am tired of compensating for 300 yd sights at a 100 yd range. I bought more than a year ago for $130, I decided, to hell with iron sights, I already have a mosin 91/30 for that. So I am going full out, bent...