The two piece firing pin is a safety device, and the spring is supposed to push the rear section down out of alignment with the front section, that is how it works. When the lever is fully closed the locking block pushes the rear section up so it is properly aligned. This cannot be seen! All your fr...

More words about the merit optical device please. Does it use a prescription lens? That's outstanding shooting, and you waited two shots longer than I would have, LOL ! Grizz Grizz, Here is a link to an article about the Merit Device in Gun Blast by Jeff Quinn. http://www.gunblast.com/MeritOptical....

Here is the only one I could find in Idaho. Same game, two names. Idaho Wild Boar Hunting Shoshone Wild Pig Hunting Preserve Offering a 500 acre ranch all for hunting purposes so that every hunter will have all the space he/she needs for a fruitful hunt. Hunting can be done using a bow, pistol, rifl...

There is, or was a few years ago, in Idaho. It was a commercial operation. Unfortunately I have no further information on it. I'll post it if I can locate anything.

Since Winchester lists 5.3 gr. 231 w/230 jacketed bullet as maximum @ 16,900 PSI I would say the load is somewhat marginal to begin with. It will average somewhere around 20,000 PSI with correct primers. My recollection is that SAAMI MAP for the .45 ACP is 20,000, so that isn't the issue. That said,...

When in doubt, use the powder manufacturers data. Also, follow their cautions. In this case it is to not reduce more than 3% from maximun. That makes minimum 16.1 gr. and maximum 16.6 gr.

So, does this mean the H&R products are gone? From the first line of the press relese it would seem not. MADISON, N.C., April 7, 2008 – Remington Arms Company, Inc. ("Remington"), the United States’ largest firearms manufacturer, today announced a strategic manufacturing consolida...

Measuring new untrimmed Winchester 38-55 brass gives 2.080 - 2.083 - even the longest easily slide all the way in. The chamber is apparently longer than that. Yes, they very well may easily chamber at he 2.080, remember the crimp. This is a reference direct from this forum:http://www.leverguns.com/...

The flaw to this theory is the SAAMI dimension for the .375 chamber shows a MAXIMUM dimension of 2.080". The SAAMI maximum cartridge length is 2.020". The "short" .38-55 cases would still have to be trimmed to be correct, although there may have been the reasoning that by shorten...

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the 38-55 brass was shortened so that it chamber in the new (at the time) 375 Win rifles. The reason being that the 38-55 was pretty much obsolete and not being chambered in rifles at that time. By shortening the brass, one could continue to use the 38-55, ...

After years of playing with the .35 Remington I settled on 39.0/IMR 4895. This chronographs with 200 Hdy. at:

Winchester case; 2178
Remington case; 2133

These fall really close to the old published velocity of 2100.

FWIW, the Federal factory I have chronographed was 2009

Just for the record, the only similarity between the .22-3000 and the .22-250 is they are both .22 caliber. The .22-250 is nothing more than the .250 Savage necked down to.22 with no other changes. t is a rimless cartridge with the standard .473 nominal diameter head shared by all cartridges develop...

I am a former(retired) Insurance Claims Professional...don't hire an atty. You will be spinning your wheels and wasting your money on this one!...Chances are this person may not have Insurance, and your Uninsured Motorist coverage will apply. You may have to initially use your Coll. coverage until ...

OK, how do I access that info, I can get the PDF but it wont show me those particular pages, I can only get 16 pages. This is their on-line magazine, they sell it. You can subscribe to Handloader for $19.95, Rifle for a little less, or all three magazines Wolfe publishes including Successful Hunter...

Try applying a little more crimp and you will find that it evens out. The weaker side (thinner) of the case gives way first allowing the crimp bevel to push the case even more to that side. rimping slighly more forces the case to center in the die. A second possibility is your brass has uneven mouth...

Go Here:http://www.savage99.com/winchester1894_dates.htm

This is the same as below, and all it will tell you is after 1982, unfortunately.

As J Miller said above, you have a standard RBS 3 die set with a second carbide sizer die. The expander goes in the aluminum die body, just as you have it in the second photo. If you need a set of instructions to adjust the dies you can down-load it off the RCBS web site. Be sure that, when setting ...

As long as you keep using that brass jag you are going to turn every patch you use blue with any copper solvent, no matter how clean the barrel is!

As you can see from my post, herein, I left RIFLE MAGZINE editor Dave Scovill a voicemail with my (a longtime subscriber) concerns. http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=165590#165590 After reading the posts on the link, what can be said. I guess I skipped that article, haven't read the w...

In any firearm the bullet will continue to accelerate so long as the gas pressure exerted against the base of the bullet exceeds the force necessary to overcome friction of the bullet in the bore. This is true no matter how the pressure is derived. There is a balance point, having mostly to do with ...

It would be almost a straight line at that range, less than 1" variation. Actual measurements would depend on actual zero range, but if zeroed at 50 yds. the bullet would start the distance down that it is from the sight line to bore center and rise to the aiming point without ever crossing the...

The idiot in the hanging, log, basket is way over-acting. Actually, those scenes were quite true to the book. Possibly a silly premise, but that was the authors fault. Instead of only a couple minutes, in the book the cage and pit spanned several chapters. Not defending the movie, really it was ter...

Maybe because they are operated with a lever????????????????????

Might not be a lever action repeater, but argueing they are not a lever action is, at best, sophomoric.

Cheers Terry, I wonder why It did not work? Any imfo? I can understand the mag problem. I was thinking of this in a single shot rifle. The problem with the government tests of the 1881 Marlin rifle was that Marlin had specified that a flat point bullet be used for safety reasons. The military insis...

Have to agree and disagree with Charles. The very first error made was in the intro where they placed the time as 1858. The Great Comanche Raid occurred in 1840 as retribution for the so-called Council House Fight in which the Comanche chiefs were lured to a council and then murdered. You don't have...

People who have never had a problem notwithstanding, this isn't safe. Not theory, but a real experience of a friend several years ago. He had a magazine explosion with just the same bullet as you ask about. It was loaded in a .45 Colt Henry replica. Damaged the magazine and took him weeks to heal fr...

Even though there isn't enough recoil in a rifle with either cartridge named to likely cause a problem, what Mike says is the best and easiest way to approach this.

Go here and put in date code F, you'll see it was 1949 inspite of the magazine ads. http://armscollectors.com/sn/marlinlookup.php

What caliber??????

1949, 336

Federal has been loading these for several years. The first ammunition was loaded with commercial bullets from Cast Performance, an LBT design.

cutter wrote:I have heard that any cast bullet over 405gr will not cycle through the Marlin 1895 action.

Is this true?

Short answer, No.

What is critical is overall length. So long as you stay under 2.550 you should be OK. Some Marlins can take a little more length, but not much.