Greetings All, Thankyou for your likes and posts. A good point about sticking to factory loads for initial assessment. I appear to be a serial purchaser of some calibres so have generally had proven...
Liked On: 26-08-2021, 11:49 AM
Greetings All, Working up a load for your rifle can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be. I have noted quite a few posts lately describing extensive load development techniques that...
Liked On: 26-08-2021, 11:48 AM
Good morning all. I'm a teacher at a Waikato High School. Every year I run a year 10 Hunting camp during camp week in the last week of term in early December. I take 8 students and a similar...
Liked On: 23-08-2021, 08:23 PM
Greetings Countryside, I did a thread a while back on equipment for handloading and will try to dig it up for you later today. The first bit of advice on first steps is to try and find a mentor....
Liked On: 23-08-2021, 02:34 PM
Cyclops your case and cases like it is the exact reason I allowed that slight modification to make the target a bit bigger should make it a bit easier for you a 2moa target should be easy to see
Liked On: 22-08-2021, 05:24 PM
Cheers for the input guys I've ordered some Laupa , it's only going into a 223 so should work mint. I do find it funny how people can't read questions though, I wasn't asking what is the...
Liked On: 10-08-2021, 08:53 PM
Honestly, who gives a flying fcuk (other than Stocky) ? If the price is crazy, someone will point it out. It has happened many times before... If someone is desperate and really wants to buy at...
Liked On: 03-08-2021, 04:38 PM
*shakes head*....so if someone buys something above retail, that is scalping?....and I thought it was stupidity. I have been buying and selling (hopefully for a profit) since long before the...
Liked On: 03-08-2021, 04:37 PM
Free market. Buyer and seller can decide for themselves to buy (or sell) or not at what ever price they want. Who are we to try and force them to do otherwise
Liked On: 03-08-2021, 04:37 PM
Here's my understanding (essay warning): As you subject the powder to more pressure and more heat, it burns more thoroughly/cleanly/completely. Smokeless powder essentially creates its own...
Liked On: 31-07-2021, 05:52 PM
I believe the projectile/ bullets question has been adequately answered so I’ll add this I have a firearms licence but I don’t have any firearms as I believe the police and the military have...
Liked On: 27-07-2021, 10:50 PM
I hope everyone calling a baby deer a fawn instead of a calf doesn’t cause you too much grief at night. If I use the word bullet with a non reloader or shooter then they assume the entire cartridge....
Liked On: 27-07-2021, 10:49 PM
Greetings All, Many many years ago, as a trainee draughtsman we used cartridge paper to line the surface of our red wood drawing boards. This was a hand made paper that was made a sheet at a time....
Liked On: 27-07-2021, 10:49 PM
The correct sear engagement is critical to having a safe trigger. If the sear is slipping as soon as it gets striker pressure then it will generally not fire as the striker will rest on the cocking...
Liked On: 25-07-2021, 06:30 PM
First thing to do is to educate your colleague to not divulge that sort of info about a second person.
Liked On: 17-07-2021, 12:33 PM