What cartridge are you obsessed with this week?

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I have a nice 1895 krag sporter. I would someday like to get a modern 1885 Winchester in 30-40 AI
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If I recall correctly, the 30-40 was either the first or second most improved on a capacity basis of all the AI cartridges. Take out all that body taper and move the shoulder forward and it will be very close to the 30-06 indeed.
 
I’m not really crushing on any particular cartridge this week, but rather thinking a LOT about converting a couple rifles my wife and I use for hunting. They’re belted mag switch barrel rigs, but I am thinking HARD about going to either Dakota cartridges or Ruger cartridges. The downside being the absence of a 458 Ruger, but in fairness, it’s probably not kind to choke a Ruger long action, not Safari Magnum, with 458win mag/Lott power anyway. Been kinda leaning Dakota, get a 7, 300, 338, 416, and 460, but not fully sure I love it.
 
7.62x39, to a moderate extent.

Did my very first swaps of Any internal gun components used in an action-ever. This covers about twenty rifles/handguns acquired since '07.
Put in the Tapco G2 trigger group and a retainer plate, which is more solid than any shepherd's hook for securing the two action pins. No more unpleasant trigger slap, therefore, it's enjoyable to simply shoot, and shoot...
 
Way back in my safe I had a 1956 Roy Weatherby Southgate FN Magnum .300 Weatherby I got , along with quite a few other Weatherbys , from Roy's old Gunsmith Joe Dutra who passed years ago. While he was alive I traded motor work and $ with him in the 80s for the ODD Weatherby that caught my fancy he had in his collection. He was a master gunsmith and one rifle he had intriqued me so I got it from him . It was an experimental "concept" new rifle design he did to show Roy in the late 1950s before Roy decided to go with the German Sauer Mark V , based on the commercial FN action Roy was using at the time. The stock was the big difference and this tiger striped maple one is spectacular but the oddest thing is it is finished one way on one side and completely different on the other. It did not have a butt pad but had a crude aluminum "try gun " telescopic butt plate to adj. LOP . It had Bhuleur mounts and rings and a Weatherby made in Germany 4x scope (Nickel) mounted. The Muzzle brake was a tank type and was cracked from firing (not a good design !) It has a "chrome bore" as written on barrel and appears like a very low round count . Joe told me he made a few concept rifle before Roy went with the Mark 5 and this was one of them . Soooo , I had a Gentry Quiet brake installed and glass bedded the action a couple years ago . In January this year I pulled off the butt ugly try gun butt plate thing and cut the stock to 14" LOP with a Limb saver for me or my son which is our preferred hunting rifle length . This rifle has a superb trigger, and is a Weatherby sealed billeted unit . (edited: this may be a Jaeger trigger unit but not a set trigger) The bolt handle appears slightly longer than most FN Commercial mauser actions but it is a true "Magnum Mauser" action so it may be standard. This last month I mounted a Zeiss 3-15x42 HD5 with 800 rapid Z scope I paid $600 on a flash sale for in Warne Maxi mounts and permanent medium Maxi Rings . I ordered 3 screw in Uncle Mikes sling studs and installed them today after the slight touch up with urethane to the areas that had never been finished on this prototype stock dried . I will take pictures of it after I finish tweaking the inletting job I did with glass years ago and sealing the interior wood with varathane. I should be done by the end of the month. I have stocked up on 5 boxes of weatherby 180 grain loads last year when I got them at $30 each on sale and bought dies. This will be my new "heavy" game rifle (Elk) this year and will be passed to my son. I am stoked on it !
 
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6.5 X 58MM Portuguese Mauser ( ya,I know its not really a mauser).
Big Island black bear opens april.1. but still snow in the high country until middle/end of april......my alpine bear pepperoni was finished a week ago....
loaded with 160 gr. ''cruise missle '' RN, It works like it did, back in 1904.just fine !!!
 
I'm not sure that "obsessed" is the right word but I'm wanting to build an AR in 300BO for hunting hogs at night. I'll suppress it and maybe even look at some type of NV. I'd rather have a short bolt gun built on a Remington 700 but the hogs travel in packs around here and the AR would allow faster repeat shots.
 
I keep thinking about the CZ .17 Hornet at the LGS. I can get it for $20 over cost. Power approaching a .223 but as quiet as a .22 mag.

If i ever get to go on a prairie dog hunt again it would be great for shots out to maybe 200 yards.

It’s been in their inventory for about a year, and the dealer wants it to go away. I already have a 3-12x50 Burris scope that would be perfect

Since I’m thinning out my gun inventory, I’d probably sell my G20 Glock and my SP-10 turkey gun to finance it.
 
troy fairweather said:
does he have a list of what cartridges he still needs.
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I didn’t get a list of what he had, his dad showed me a photo of his collection, from the photo of his collection shelf it looked like one loaded 243 and a handful of bottle neck cases and a few shot gun hulls.

I put together some dummy rounds from the stuff I had at the bench. A 30-06 with a SP, a 45 ACP with a JHP, 9mm & 38 spl with plated RN, 40 S&W with cast SWC, 308 with AP bullet, 300 blk with a vmax, a 223 & 50 BMG with an FMJ.
 
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I've been thinking about an AR-10 in 338 Fed. The more Ive read about it though I'm not so sure. It's something that's on the back burner ATM.

My attention has been on SD handguns alot lately and as so thats mostly what I've tinkered with. Ill pick up my new Sig p365 today and after the new wears off back to rifles I go.

Loading some CFE BLK behind some 7.62x39 will be on the docket soon as well.
 
ECVMatt said:
Right now I am back on my battle to produce good cases for the .256 Winchester from .357 brass. I think I have found the magic recipe and am hopeful to get some loaded up and ready for summer!
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I have got my .256 process pretty well dialed in. I can do it 2 ways and have either 15% or 25% fallout for cracked necks depending on how much time and effort I want to put into it. I resize the .357 case with the expander removed for the smallest resized diameter. Then anneal the neck on a propane torch, doesn’t take much, about 7 seconds or so. Then I use a “custom” die (which is a junk 30-30 crimp die I had laying around which got cut off on a chop saw and the body reamed out with a die grinder to remove the burrs left by the saw) to go from 35 pistol to 30 rifle caliber.

This is where the process deviates based on time and effort. If I’m being lazy I take the 30-357 brass I just made and lube it up and size it in the .256 sizer. I get heavy fallout this way but sometimes that’s ok if I’m in a hurry or if I’m using junk brass. Fallout ranges 20% on nice brass to 40% on random bulk rat-pee tarnishes cases I got from a yard sale.

If I’m not lazy I anneal again and use another “custom” die made the same way from a 7mag die. I would rather use a 7-30 waters die for the right body dimension which would reduce my fallout but I’m not buying a single die to chop up. Half of my fallout here is crushed cases due to lack of support in the body for the neck sizing. Fallout is usually about 10-15%. I’m guessing I could cut that to about 5% if I bought the 7-30 crimp die to chop.

Just to add a bit more, it’s somewhat important to use tapercrimp dies here as they are smoother than other dies and provide a better finished product. Sizing dies work, but not nearly as smooth.
 
TN Outlaw said:
I've been thinking about an AR-10 in 338 Fed. The more Ive read about it though I'm not so sure. It's something that's on the back burner ATM.

My attention has been on SD handguns alot lately and as so thats mostly what I've tinkered with. Ill pick up my new Sig p365 today and after the new wears off back to rifles I go.

Loading some CFE BLK behind some 7.62x39 will be on the docket soon as well.
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I like your style. I have an AR10 in 6.5CM, but I have been thinking alot about a 338 fed barrel for it. P365 is also on my to do list, and I've already done 7.62x39 with CFE BLK.
 
someguy2800 said:
I like your style. I have an AR10 in 6.5CM, but I have been thinking alot about a 338 fed barrel for it. P365 is also on my to do list, and I've already done 7.62x39 with CFE BLK.
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Great minds and all.....:cool:

The only thing that gives me pause with the 338 Fed is I've read alot of people complaining the lower velocity might not consistently initiate sufficient expansion. Alot of people say it does however so I'm on the fence.

Would be a good middle ground cartridge to bridge the gap of smaller lower drag and medium bore thumpers. Kind of a "best of both" type round.
 
LRDGCO said:
Back on my longtime obsession, the 30-40. Having recently acquired a Miroku made 'Browning ' 1895 in 30-40, I've been re-reading Ken Waters "Pet Loads" article on the exact same rifle and putting together test loads.

The 1895 rounds out my stable: a Ruger No. 3, a Krag, and now an 1895. If only there was an AR 10 in 30-40, or maybe a PKM!
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That's a strange one. I used to hunt with a 95 (30-40) when I was in HS. I wanted a bolt rifle like my dad and brother hunted with but a rifle was a low priority back then. I think the cartridge compared favorably to the 303 British. 7 mm was the rage in those days.
 
The 3057 Shadow. This was a vanity wildcat I came up with back in 2000 -- you form it by running a 357 Magnum case into a .30 Mauser die. Think of it as a rimmed 300 Blackout with a shorter neck and weaker case, but back in the day I was thinking of the Whisper rather than Blackout. It's main virtue, other than being cheap and simple to form, is that the rim makes it easy to fish out empties from a break-open rifle without an ejector.

I recently rediscovered the chamber reamer PPG made for me and decided to contact MGM about ordering a new TC Encore carbine barrel using it. That led to sectioning a formed case to compare with 300 Blackout, working out some safe starting loads with new powders introduced in the last 10 years, picking a new scope, buying another Encore stock from Boyds (I couldn't just use the old one!), yadda yadda -- fair enough to call it an obsession.

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.270 Win...too soon?

At the moment 9mm as I ponder pistol builds for kids and what might be a perfect round for lots of practice. Of course magazines will be an initial expense but for cheap plinking even compared to 5.56, 9mm sounds like a perfect solution.

Also itching to zero my other 30-06 after refinishing the stock and mounting a new scope.
 
The good old .22lr, specifically 40gr standard velocity. I have an Appleseed training event coming up at the end of the month and I have been out of rifle shooting for a long time. Getting the old 10/22 ready and trying to come to terms with the fact that I don't see as well now as once I did!
 
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