I wish your nephew a speedy recovery. My prayers and well wishes to your nephew and the other victims.

Leverluver, I defer to your obvious experience. The nice thing about forums such as these is that I can learn from others instead of going it alone and reinventing the wheel. More later. My digital caliper needs a new battery. Live by the black box, die by the black box. Modoc ED, reversing the bull...

Thank you all for your replies. I'm new here and appreciate the helpfulness given to a newb. Leverluver, your point is well taken about bullet expansion. I'm hoping to load for 300 gr Buffalo Bore type velocities. No doubt, the bullets I'm messing with were meant for 458 Win Mags or some such. Ultim...

I have some Barnes 300 gr Flat base TSX bullets that I'd like to reload for my Marlin 1895. I read the article by Paco Kelly about clipping the noses of 30-30 spire points for use in tube mags. I'd like to try this on the 45-70s. I got Barnes bullets because of CA's condor law. I'm experimenting rig...