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I have Lyman's "Cast Bullet Handbook" 3 Edition and several editions of Lyman Reloading Manual, Number 46 especially. Both have the same section on Casting, which goes into detail about casting and sizing characteristics of 4 different common alloys. Some shrink while cooling and some actually...

The only Match rifle I have left is a very low end Anshutz 2000 (from the 60's when Savage was the importer) and it has a 22" barrel. shoots great at 50 yards. When I had a 54 Action Prone rifle from 1972 it had a 24" barrel, as did my Kimber Clackamas Government model. The Kimber of Oregon...

I have two older/fixed choke models. A 20 and a 28 Grade VI. I love these guns, but my wife prefers her Berretta 391 20 ga. [Of course I shot my best score ever with her gun.] Ivan

Thanks guys! I'm living MetalMan's #1 Chuck's #1, some of the Shrew People lived in my apartments! Dennis' #2, Never sail will a Playboy for a ship's captain! Dave's #1, What did the Proctologist do in a previous life to end up with that job? Ivan

I have one of the 223 Savage single shot, right hand bolt, left hand port, heavy target rifles. It has 1:9 twist and stabilizes Hornady 75 grain A-Max and 77 grain Berger VLD's very well. This gun, with a Boyd BR stock installed, consistently shoots 3" groups at 1000 yards. It is also my record...

I graduated High School in 1974 (AD), It wasn't until the Class of 76 that typing or keyboard was a required subject. I also have a type of dyslexia that messes with my spelling. At least 2 of my grandkids inherited the Dyslexia from me, and so far, as we can tell 5 of the 9 inherited Left...

I load your 3 rounds with WW231 for medium velocity loads. I have around 22 pounds I picked up before and during the last shortage. I figure about 30 or 40 years of active Cowboy shooting (5000 rounds a year.) Ivan

HM for Dennis' #5 Ivan

Mom's family has hailed from NOLA since 1866, say hi to my 61 cousins! Ivan

I needed another 223 like a hole in my head! But while in a LGS the manager took me aside and showed me a recent (pre Bankruptcy) Remington 700 with a factory laminated stock. It had been barreled (24" heavy Stainless, chambered (Match 223 REM), and pillar bedded by Kelbly (in the Wooster, Ohio...

There is a shoe store in Lancaster, Ohio called Walker's Shoes. They specialize in hard to fit feet. They can get you anything you need: Like two different very different sized shoes! If you can get the correct sizes for each foot, they could have shoes shipped to your door. The family has been...

In the mid 90's I bought a used Red Lable. A very early blue steel receiver 26" Skeet 12 gauge, It had Briley Thin Wall Choke Tubes installed. My brother bought it for $250 and shot Sporting Clays for 2 or 3 months, I bought it for $275 and shot Sporting Clays for 1.5 months and sold it to an...

Yup, The love ballad from the movie Ben was pretty ichy! Nothing like a boy and his faithful rat! I didn't see the movies but read the books. Ivan

I don't know if this is a "Profile Crimp" die or not. One of their most expensive seat/crimp dies in straight wall cases has a micrometer length adjustment. I have that in 38-55. It is great for fine adjustment to get a specific distance away from the refiling in rifles and single shot handguns...

I think these are still made in the same factory as SKB. Ivan

A Berretta 686 (Silver Pidgin) or Browning Citori O/U's (Upland Special & Feather XS) have lifespans in the several hundred thousand shots range. I have or had both brands in 28 gauge. After 8 years of the Berretta and 30+ years on Brownings. They are still just getting broken in! Huglu...

I had a 9mm MAC-10 with can. 9mm's are all exciting for a while, but a BAR: the joy is never ending! The area my kids grew up in, we'll call it a neighborhood of 3000 acres, several of us had full autos. On nice days in the fall the 9mm's would sing the high notes, the Thompsons, Risings, and...

Central Ohio the soft drinks and coffee are $2.99-$3.50+ at any sit down restaurant! Ivan

Let's assume, I have a personal itch to get in Alk8944's face. I drive into Sandy, Utah and go in the first dinner I see and say "I'm looking for a "crusty" guy born around 1950 and did some gunsmithing and machine work and had been in the Army's 7th Inf Div. I bet as far as the locals know...

Their mothers didn't teach them any better! In 2007 I went to work for my first job outside the family. The entire staff was amazed at how many times I said "Please' & "Thank You" in a day. I found they lacked other simple courtesies also and left after a year. Now I'm retired and still say it...