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Two shots and 2 DRT bears with my 458 win mag 26 inch hand loaded 510 grain RSP. The 458 have twice gotten on loan the African big 5 and everything was one shots For moose and plains game I use the 405 gr Barnes X. At a Safari Internation convention I talked to the Barnes bullet reps and...

To shoot small patterns you need good optics and something really steady shooting. Go to the range and figure out if you can shoot small groups at say 200 yards. The M855 are AP rounds. not hunting or paper rounds. If you get into reloading RMR makes great 69 hpbt that I have bought for...

Nothing like sitting in front of the TV and hand priming three day old sun dried cases. I have an AR sighted in with RMR 69 grain hpbt. I'm taking a long trip to New Mexico for a week and I wanted to take a lot of these fully tested rounds. 26.2 grains of leverrevolution gets them going...

The real problem with lots of older stuff is the avaibility of cases. I have some things that I have to make smaller calibers from the parent cases. The second problem with over bore hot rodded cases is barrel and case life. That is why I gave up on my 30-378 when it needed the third barrel...

Barrel twist rate is just a number like one rotation for every 7 inches of barrel. Let's then max pressure load 40 gr .224 and 80 grain pills out of a 20 inch barrel .223. The 40 grain comes out of a 20 inch barrel at approximatley 3700 fps and the 80 clear down at 2700 fps. The same barrel...

I saw these near a road while out in my side by side near my house. I didn't count but maybe 80 -100 Lake city .223 brass. So I resized and decapped. I then put them in my steel media wet tumbler for a couple of hours because of the small number. They came out beautiful like always like...

Is it something the size of door at 440 yards?

I do mostly stands and feeders on leased land and night field hunting. Big 8-32 60mm on ar-10 in .308 win. My pig varmint round is the 125 Speer TNT at over 3000 fps.

I'd sell it and get something with real magnification. 250 yards is way out there. I have ar scopes turned up to 24 power for 200 yard paper because it's nice to see where the hole appeared on the paper. I shot a safari grade 458 win mag with a 2-10 36mm on loan it got the Big five twice and...

Both over un under rpm are bad. Look it up on the internet. Friction heat does cause the internal lead of a copper jacketed bullet to become liquid in very high velocity rounds. It explains why varmint rounds can devistate small critters. rotating at rpm over 250,000 on impact the...

The original m-16 had a 14:1 twist rate and a 20 inch barrel. Who ever made the chrome lines 7 twist 20 inch that I bought probably should have stayed in school! If I bought off the sheft slower 55 gr fmj it might have been fine. Because slower velocity made it not key hole the paper. Or if...

I said that I DO NOT like or use adjustable gas blocks on any of my gas guns. You have to use adjustable gas blocks on piston guns because that is what the kit comes with. Plastic lowers from what ive seen are really junk. Mil spec triggers might be up around 7 pounds. They work, but I...

Velocity increases with barrel length. going from 16 inches to 20 inches can be in excess of 300 fps. As velocity goes up with the same twist rate so does bullet RPM. Excessive rpm will make a bullet unstable to the point that it is flying through the air at odd angles. When sighting in my...

For paper and squirels I like big objectives with the smallest cross hairs. I have some 8- 32 and one 10-40 power. To see those little guys clear out past 350 yards. The problem is heat waves out here in the southwest. I have learned to not buy something unless I look through the same...

My original 3 gun competition with 20 inch diamond fluting QPQ match grade 9:1 twist non threaded barrel. The sling is great for steading standing shots. The 9 twist is just perfect for bulk 62 grain HPBT which had a fantastic over .320 BC on parr with 69 and 75 grain bullets. No problem...