Recent content by oldwiley

max loads That is not unusual as test conditions vary from one company to the others. In any event, no matter what a manual says a max load is, that may or may not be max for your firearm. Start with the minimum suggested load or a tad less, then work up to your firearms max load. For what...

223 & 748 I'm with Superman on this....26 grains of Winchester 748. I use it in my bolt gun as well as my AR (1 in 9 twist)

postcards Interesting to note on your postcard that it is addressed to Marion, Ohio and bears a 1 1/2 cent stamp with the portrait of President Warren G. Harding. The Harding Memorial is in Marion, Ohio! I onder if the sender did this intentionally or if the Harding stamp was the only 1 1/2...

dress code You are NOT too conservative. Our nation's parenting skills are almost non existent nowadays. I spent a 40 year career in public education and am appalled by the clothing worn by our young women. Many high school girls dress like whores. Maybe the moms do also - who knows, but it...

Actually I do believe we have lost some ground here, but note that I am from Michigan. I just retired last summer and am afraid by the time recovery arrives in this #$%^state, I'll be too old to realize it.....or dead!

When I was 12 y.o.- a pheasant w/ afterburners lit, shot at by 3 other guys and missed, already flew past me. I turned hard left at the waist and dropped him at about 50 yards with my 20 gauge 870, 1 oz. #6. Dad & Uncles just stood there with mouths open...

In my opinion, NONE of the new whiz-bang bullets on the market today can hold a candle to the damage a wadcutter can do to flesh. After you see your first wadcutter hole in guts, you will always have a cylinder full of them at your disposal.

This year sucked from start to finish. I would be hard put to recall anything good about it.....

Go with Swarovski, Leica, or Zeiss. All else pales by comparison. Yes they are spendy. But YES they are worth it.

I am in southwest Michigan. Most rifle & pistol primers are about $30/1000. Shotshell primers are about $23/1000 unless you buy Remington or Winchester which are about $40/1000. I just bought 10 bags of #9 shot yesterday for $23.50 per 25# bag. Eight pounds of 296 is $119, most other powder...

PRECISELY!!! Who gives a rip about a memorial. Those that are in favor of it - fine. How about 20 acres instead of 2200! .... This is just another of the annointed one's socialist bullshit tricks......gearing up for his re-election campaign, using the hysteria of 911 to fan the fires.

this is just one of 45,009,784,892,130 reasons why NOT to live in NY.

I had a failure last year on my Springfield 1911 "loaded" model. In a match the recoil plunger and spring went flying out the front of the gun. Upon inspection, the front slide had cracked on both sides, just behind the serrations. I called the factory the next day and they were very happy to...