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    Range Report - Wiedners (Serbian) "M118 Sniper"-style bullets

    SAVE YOUR MONEY and don't buy these. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT same profile as LC M118, bullet diameters run small, .3075-.3078 vs. .3082-.3085 for LC M118. Lead cores flush with ragged base closure of jacket, rather than being well seated...
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    More on ATK and Military Brass

    ATK/Alliant Techsystems, a private company with huge government munitions contracts, offers military installation commanders the option of selling the used cartridge cases directly to ATK, allowing ATK to destroy the brass right on-site, using portable shredders. The shredded brass is worth...
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    .327 Federal

    The .327 Federal is a niche cartridge, but its promoters are marketing to the wrong niche. It is well known that light-weight bullets at high velocity expand rapidly and reduce penetration, causing shallow surface wounds which often fail to reach the vitals. As a defensive round the .327...
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    Rand Corp. Paper Proposing Federal Security Force

    The RAND Corporation has published a monograph declaring the USA needs a federal Security Police Force: "Our analysis clearly indicates that the United States needs an SPF or some other way to accomplish the SPF mission." Summary, p. xiv) I thought this may be a spoof but it's offered...
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    Bullseye Powder in Light Gallery Rifle Loads

    Re-visiting .30-’06 “Guard” and “Gallery Practice” Loads with Bullseye Powder A year or so ago friends recently gave me several thousand pulled Cal. 30 Ball M2 (152-gr.FMJ) bullets and fired empty cases. These had been accumulated from DCM .30-’06 ammunition from which they had pulled the...
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    Loading the .32 ACP

    I've reloaded for the .32 ACP for over thirty years. The limiting factor in accuracy of these small handguns is their short sight radius. A personal defense gun is most likely to be used from near-contact distance to no more than about 20 feet. Sight radius is therefore less important because...
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    Which Is Best As One Handgun for Non-Hobbyist?

    (This article is a rework of one I wrote in 1993. I provided some updates, but the essentials haven’t changed very much.) The Versatile .38 Special (and .357) Casual shooters, who are NOT handgun enthusiasts, frequently ask what ONE handgun they should buy for home defense and sport...
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    Handloading .32 ACP

    I've reloaded for the .32 ACP for over thirty years. These pocket guns don't have any great reputation for accuracy. The Speer No. 13 handbook states that 3-4" groups at 25 yards are the best you can hope for. This agrees with my experience. WWII German military and postwar German police...
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