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MANY PEOPLE WOULD REGARD CASE-FORMING AS A RATHER ARCANE SUBJECT THESE DAYS. After all, wildcatting is neither as…
2017-12 handloader
To start with Hawk, Andy’s bullets are available in a wide range of diameters, weights and configurations. The basis of his quality rests on…
2018-04 handloader – 6,5 STW
The first rifle in 6.5 Shooting Times Westerner was built in 1998 by Ross Spagrud, owner of Prairie Gun Works of Canada. Like precision rifles being put together…
2018-04 handloader – brass
People in this business set great store by product testing. By “people,” I include readers, writers, editors, advertising salesmen and…
American Handgunner Sept-2002 HSO0272
The unfortunate reality, for most of us anyway, is that we probably won’t be owning too many $2,000 pistols. It’s not bad. It’s not good. It just is…
Double Gun Winter2014 – 8.15x46R
Should one make a conscious effort to Scollect pre-World War I cartridge long arms of middle European parentage, or should one even accidentally accumulate a few such examples…
GA 2009-01
The strength of the BLR’s modern action permits the use of higher-intensity loads than traditional tube-magazine lever guns. Putting it back on and shooting another to see if I could discern any shift…
Guns Jun-2002 G060236
After the close of World War II there was a great flurry of activity among arms designers. During this period in time men around the world were hard at work creating what would become the next generation…
handloader 2017-02
It’s not that full-power loads from the .500 Cyrus pound your shoulder into gelatin, it’s the neck-breaking sensation you get every time the trigger is pulled. The cartridge feels like a roll of dimes…
handloader 2017-08
In 1990, Jack Carter, developer of the Trophy Bonded Bear Claw, made his last safari in Africa, hunting first in Tanzania, then in Botswana. He took two rifles. One was a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 .243 Winchester…
hawk wildcats
Those of us who persist in experimenting with wildcat cartridges are a bit strange in many ways. We march to a drummer largely unheard by the average person. We are always running against the wind…
Reloading The Oddball Metrics Part XI, 8.15 x 46R – JC Munnell
In the last installment of this series, we examined the 9.3x72R, one of the more popular German sporting cartridges of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
Rifle 2008-03
It’s been nearly 100 years since the folks at Winchester Repeating Arms (WRA Co.) began work on a 2.4-inch .50-110/100 case necked down to .46 caliber. According to Daniel Shuey’s book W.R.A. Co…
Wildcat Mania
The term ‘wildcat’ has several definitions from wild felines and quick tempered people, ·to exploratory oil wells and spontaneous labor strikes. In the · firearms world, it relates to experimental cartridges…
Armscor Precision Ammunition
Armscor, a Philippine-based company, was in attening can fracture the bullet’s shank. That could mean a defective round, or, even worse, a projectile fragment stuck in the barrel bore…