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Optimum height of the front sight depends on what the rear sight is and how you want it zeroed. I'd suggest you get a tall front sight and then with the rear sight on the 200 yard setting (assuming...

You really need to quit crimping the case mouths. The >30 Carbine headspaces on the case mouth and absolutely no crimp is required. If you do anything simple taper crimp to straighten and remove...

As mentioned the classic 2.7 load of Bulleseye under a HBWC and with PB'd WCs works very well in most revolvers. In the M52 with the bullets seated flush things can be a little different. A lot...

John

I always do like your quippy little guotes; especially this time when you use one of Coopers own to criticise his concept.

At bayonet ranges (when a boyonet is attached) any adverse...

I'm an old rifle shooter (competition to, with M14/M1A) and a pistol shooter. While I never agreed with Cooper that the Scout was the end all of rifles it certainly does have it's place and in that...

A 12" twist will do very nicely with the 168 MK. Actually the 12" twist barrels stabilize 175 gr MKs and the 174 gr M72/M118 bullets with exceptional accuracy to well beyond 1000 yards. Actually my...

I've done it with the low powered LC69. I used 150 gr CorLocs thogh, not a great improvement in accuracy. Best was when a 168 MK was used. The 45 gr charge of 4895 in LC69 is still less than the...

AKA Hugh Uno

As to SHOOTING oversize BULLETS:

1. I have NEVER had to do this and have had excellent success with ALL of my TD rifles (and I have owned well over a dozen).

The use of...

Concur with MEHavey's advise, 15 gr 296 with a 110 bullet is possibly an over max load for your M1. The residual pressure in the chamber still has the case gripping the chamber when extraction...

Odds are it is a 14" twist. I rechambered several M788 .222s to .223 many years ago. All that was required was finish reaming to proper headspace. There was a slight step left in fired .223 cases...

Google something like "cast bullets for sale" and you'll get lots of commercial cast bullet company's listings. I cast my own but lately have helped a freind develop a load for LazerCast 170 gr FN...

Not sure what length barrel Hodgdon uses in it's testing, probably a SAAMI test barrel, since they give pressures, longer than a M1 Carbine barrel. In numerous M1 Carbines 15 gr H110 under a 110 gr...

I concur with Iboos.

Sheridan was covering his hind end for his part in the misguided strategy developed with Terry (Sheridan approved it and agreed that Custer was to lead the "attack" force of...

jon

You might want to remember that the strategy for the LBH campaign was Terry's not Custers.

Larry Gibson

John

Not so, Custer was a "hero" well before his death and well before Libby started writing. His "heroics" (you chose to call him a "hero") were well documented and published during the Civil...

TerryR

With the load you are using you do not need GCs as long as the bullet is designed as a FB bullet. However, with that 10 1/2" barrel you have the potential for some real magnum velocities...

Calif-Steve

I don't think we're talking "magnum" loads for the 8x57. What we're talking is loading to the original German specifications. The standard german load for the 154 gr bullet was 2880...

Concur with Parashooter, needlessly alarmed. I've been loading the 8x57 in M98s to such levels for years. I also pressure test with an Oehler M43. The loads listed are quite within CIP standards...

albert

If your X-Die is properly set up you should get many, many more loads with those cases using that load. With "service" loads I get 20+ firings per case out of my AR. I've yet to lose a...

Hunter

"Hey Gents. Getting a Remington 700 VSSF in .223 noticed it has a 12" twist in its 26" barrel. Will heavier bullets like the 75 grain V Max shoot well in this rifle? Its a slow twist, but a...

Bacarnal

"I'm gonna try to use IMR 4895 and W846 (W748 equivalent burn rate) from 42-44.5 grains and see how that goes"

That won't go too good as that is going to be way to fast for that cast...

Most of us with considerable experience have found a .310-.311" sized cast bullet most often shoots best in most .308-.309 barrels. It is actually the throat you want the bullet sized to. The old...

As listed in "They Rode With Custer" there were 8 Browns assigned to the 7th Cavalry on 25 June, 1876. Four of them died in battle on 25 June, 1876 including Benjamin.

Larry Gibson

Art

With that m2 ammo you will be fairly well calibrated out 600 yards. Beyond that the flat based M2 bullet will fall off more rapidly than the calibrated ranges on the rear sight. The rear...

Look in several manuals which have loads for the .45 Colt for "Rugers and TCs". The Hornady and Lee have them and a couple others. I'd look at a 250 gr XTP myself with a top end load of 4227 or...