What cartridge are you obsessed with this week?

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TN Outlaw said:
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.
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That would be the .308...or better yet 7mm-08

troy fairweather said:
did you keep your load data for the 7.62x39 with crfe blk
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Hodgdon has load data published online but what bullet are you looking for?
 
A couple of months ago it was .458 Socom, now waiting on a hog hunt.

Last month it was 350 Legend, but still waiting on barrel and brass.

So I'm back to .44mag this week. Got a new 4" M69 and now have Lite & Medium loads for it. Only 100 rounds so far.
 
troy fairweather said:
i think i may use the sierra 125 pro hunter, still have to look or cheaper deer bullets.
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I know from a close friends experience that the 125 Sierra Pro Hunter is an excellent choice for deer. Expands well, accurate, and exits deer. If you look at the 7mm08 buy some 120 Nosler Ballistic Tips. Those are hands down the quickest deer droppers I've ever seen.
 
CarJunkieLS1 said:
I know from a close friends experience that the 125 Sierra Pro Hunter is an excellent choice for deer. Expands well, accurate, and exits deer. If you look at the 7mm08 buy some 120 Nosler Ballistic Tips. Those are hands down the quickest deer droppers I've ever seen.
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i have used the PH in 7mm they kill fast and shoot very good. i can get noslers about 50% of from sps.
 
Gordon said:
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 . "
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Teaser, working on it today
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Not “obsessed,” but I am anxious to get out and shoot the brand new 264 Win Mag I’ve had since the middle of January. The weather hasn’t been cooperating, and the county gravel pit (our “range”) is still full of snow, which is slowly turning to mud. It shouldn’t be too much longer though – another week or two and I’ll probably be out breaking in my new rifle’s barrel, then working up a super-duper mule deer and antelope load using the high ballistic coefficient (and pricey) bullets I bought.
 
Only took a day and now I'm off of .44 Mag and onto .454 Casull/.460 S&W.

Probably won't progress to the .50s. Don't really interest me.
 
tark said:
you beat me to it!
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I have been into .25-20 a few years. First one was a very worn bore Winchester 92 I found on a rural Monterey County Cattle ranch in an abandoned bunk house 40 years ago. The 90 year old owner of the ranch allowed me to fetch it to his home and we drank whiskey and he told me 120 years of his ranch history and when I offered to buy it he made me a present of it for the assistance I had been to him for a few years when he needed equipment repair. I tried to like the gun , it was a sadle ring Carbine , but the bore was shot and the finish gone and pitted moderately. I did shoot a couple boxes of the "Hi Speed" Ammo that came with it and at 50 yards it was about 10" groups rested :( I have since had three other good 25-20s and still have two; a Rem 25 Pump which is pristine and accurate and a trick little Remington Rollingblock #2 with a 8x Fecker scope.
Anyway what I learned about the local at least , but I believe nationally was : the .25-20 was a much favored ranch or farm rifle . It was usually left in a handy spot for anyone qualified to use it . It was a critter getter first around the barnyard and corrals and feed lots. Racoon, Coyotes and predatory large birds were the normal targets but knocking deer out of gardens and off fruit trees was a very common practice. My saddle ring carbine , made in 1903 was carried by the then 90 year old as a teen on his horse while he ran ranch chores.After he married he moved up to the "long range " .25-35 as his saddle gun and his wife kept the 25-20 behind the kitchen door much later as he became a senior and hefe of the ranch
it was left in the bunk house for the hands to keep critters a bay and pot food . The old corrosive primed .25-20 ammo that was made until late 30 played hell on small bores, ate them up if not cleaned with hot soap and water after firing which hardly any cowboys did to smokeless guns I think ! I like to shoot Hornady 60 grain flat points over 10 grains of 2400 which is moderately hot and get 2200 fps +- 50 fps in the Remington 25 and the Remigton #2 and is a great 150 yard varmint up thru coyote load. I have a 75 grain flat point old Lyman 2 cavity gascheck mold and 9 grains of 2400 gets 1780 fps .. +- 50 fps. Brass is very fragile , load it carefully like a .22 Hornet . A Cat fart load is the 75 grain lead bullet with 3.5 grains of Unique which is just subsonic , about 1100 fps where I live , and accurate to 100 yards. It has about twice as much smash as the hottest .22 LR .
 
Skylerbone said:
.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.
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A non-rifle aside: One suggestion for addressing the kid pistol builds is a rimfire service pistol conversion unit. Currently I've three of them: my cheapo is a Ciener unit mounted to my RIA 1911, the pricey one is a Kadet II upper on a CZ 75B SA, and in-between is an Advantage Arms conversion for my Glock 19. These outfits are fun, very cheap to shoot once you find the brand of 22 ammo they prefer, and about as accurate as the base pistols in full caliber. The Ciener unit doesn't lock open on an empty mag, but otherwise the manual of arms is unchanged.

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I’ve been bouncing back and forth between the .358 Winchester and the .338-06! I want a heavy hitting close to medium range deer/elk rifle.
 
I know it's a rifle forum but...

.44 Spl for me...I loaded up some rounds using Bullseye and they were pretty darn accurate (and pleasant) out of the GP 100 3".

I'm really hankering for a .327 5" GP 100 from Lipseys... I think I"m going to pull the plug on one soon and face the wrath of my wife afterwards...

Stay safe!
 
troy fairweather said:
if you had a short action like a remington id do the 358 if a mauser or long action do the 338-06. i really like the 358 but don't know if i would use a mauser(my favorite action) or just do the mauser or 06 base case cartridges.
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Ok, I got you now. Me personally I am without the action to start with so that opens it up. I know Ruger has the American in limited supply in .358 Win right now, but I'm not sure I like the American enough to go there. Other than that it is pretty much a custom build only game. Or I hear good things about JES and his rebore.
 
magnatecman said:
Ok, I got you now. Me personally I am without the action to start with so that opens it up. I know Ruger has the American in limited supply in .358 Win right now, but I'm not sure I like the American enough to go there. Other than that it is pretty much a custom build only game. Or I hear good things about JES and his rebore.
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Re barreling a short action savage would be the easiest way. I hadn't heard about the ruger american, that looks really tempting.
 
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