SmallCaliberCentral

If you are in the Southwest then there should be lots of citrus trees around. Oranges and grapefruits make good targets especially if they are on the southside of ripe!

This is possibly my favorite knife. I almost always have it in my pocket. It essentially never gets dull. It is tiny and thin! Cost a whopping $9.99. Only "nice" knife I have is a Puma Hunter. I am one of the rare gun guys that can't get myself to spend a lot of money on collecting knives....

Hope you guys get into them deep!!!

That was 39gr SBK on top of 26.4gr of 10x. So that is a little hotter than what you are loading.

Was he asking how much headspace, or was he asking how much throat? The .204R factory barrels generally have a very long throat. Sometimes so long that in some rifles a bullet would fall out of the case before it could be seated out far enough to touch the lands. Headspace isn't generally something ...

Just started working loads for 34 gr. Mid south. So far I am at 21.5 gr. Of imr 4198. Out of my ar. It is 24" 1in 12 twist. The cci 400 primer have grouped .5" less than the magnum primer. I need to get it chronied still. Maybe this weekend? The best group has been .670 so.far but it shal...

Updated spreadsheets. Excel http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/2580584/204preferred-bullet-xls-february-6-2011-4-29-pm-19k PDF http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/2581701/204preferred-bullet-pdf-february-7-2011-8-18-am-12k EXCELLENT job keep up the GREAT work, and THANK YOU sir!! :yeah: :yeah: :-D Steve I...

Hey Rick and others, what is your technique for getting the action shots of the projectile hitting the target, i.e. "The Matter Splatter"? Are you using a device to release the shutter as you pull the trigger, or just using an assistant? I ask because I shoot a Nikon DSLR with a 200mm len...

That is a fantastic outing. Looks like that portable table is working out very well! It truly is portable. I may need to check into one. Would be easy to camouflage it with some ghilly type material as well. The pdogs out here can see a guy coming from a long ways off and they hit the holes. They en...

I thank the 100 people who have read this post and not put me in my place for showing restraint and I will return to my reading. Nope, we won't put ya in your place, but now you owe us all one big azz prairie dog hunt, with bbq to boot. Deal? Deal! Wait, you bbq your prairie dogs?? That is just dis...

Brass is an interesting metal. You can anneal it with heat, but the only way to harden it is through "work hardening" which is what happens when we shoot and resize the brass. Dipping the cases in water is unnecessary as far as the process of annealing goes. Generally people use the water ...

Here is an image of the adapter by itself to give you a better idea. Male threads are the new size to screw into the newer breed of Leupolds, and the female threads are the old standard to fit the old size sunshades that are the same diameter of the scope. I hate that Leupold couldn't do this on the...

That is a really interesting portable bench. I've not seen that one. Definitely report back on it with a review. I do a lot of hike in pdog shooting and just have to shoot off bipods. Problem is that out here in the prairie of CO we have an awful lot of ground cactus and I look like a pincushion by ...

All my studies into reloading for one particular weapon, all my confidence built up with that one gun so I could confidently take pretty difficult shots is gone. He didn't steal a gun. He stole a year of effort, learning, practice and confidence as well as my first quality rifle that my dad and I s...

Just my opinion, but if you don't have confidence in one of your components then load testing is not going to prove anything. If there is one brand of brass that consistently gets a thumbs down around here it is the Hornady stuff. Get yourself some Win or Rem brass and start over. Just my thoughts.