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Well, after all that, I think I'm confused! I'll just live here in my happy world and handload, or reload and enjoy it. RD

I'll take those Centennial stocks! PM to follow. RD

Thanks MasterTech, that is exactly what I am trying to get across! OKC, I hope snobbery wasn't intended, just getting a discussion going. I said I was going to kick the ant nest, rainy day here so am enjoying the back and forth. Actually, right now I'm sitting here cleaning .45 brass and...

Some good thoughts from all, actually the post 'Old Timers Avice..' is what got me thinking about posting this. Yes, the two words are a semantic problem, but I've always believed if you are going to do something, do it the best you can, and that is where the difference, to me, comes in. When...

I've debated this topic for awhile and have decided to kick the ant nest and post it. First some qualifications, I've been loading ammo since 1980, started with a gift from my soon to be Wife of an RCBS rockchucker set. I'd watched a neighbor load a few times in my teens and had been amazed you...

I found also that the 55g bullets were not doing so well, that's why I tried the 52g Match. I prepared a lot of 'match' grade so to speak, with good cases, primers etc and weighed each charge instead of just measuring and found this load to be a great performer in the rifle. It is a battle rifle...

Here is one that isn't often seen, according to my research between 750 and about 2000 made it in country before the AWB of '89 hit. This is a Berretta M70, 5.56 Nato. About mint condition. I picked this up along with a bunch of spare mags, I have an original bipod which is going to be polished...

Excellent Catch!! My interest's in handguns lie primarily with the old Smith's but a fine old Colt like that will make my ears perk up. I wouldn't hesitate a second to shell out some big money for a fine revolve like that one. I read somewhere that as part of the blueing process of those old...

Insurance and legal issues aside remember this, when you start doing something you enjoyed as a hobby for a living, the fun rapidly wears off. Your best bet, if you want to get serious with it is to find a 'niche' market and have your customers come up with their own brass. The few times I've...

Yes, .218 Bee is also derived from the basic family, but I didn't have any and I had to use what I had. And Yes, I could have just waited for some brass to become available, but where's the fun in that? I don't watch much TV, I'm not a 'club' person, other than a beer with some Vet friends now...

I hadn't thought about Douglas, I too know I read this somewhere but cant recall, maybe in an American Rifleman? I'll poke around in the old magazines. No I never tried eating a ground hog but (Fair Warning: another story!!) When I was young, like 10 or so, we were very poor. My family lived...

After months of work and no free time I finally made time for me and spent the day Thursday at the range. One of the rifles I took with me was an early flat bolt Ruger M77 in .243. I've owned this rifle since the early '90's and per the S/N it was made around '69 or '70. Twenty years ago this...

Get some years and some arthritis on ya' and you'll begin to appreciate mild, accurate loads! The last full house .44 mag's I fired, my hand reminded me about for about two days. Just like optics on a rifle, didn't need 'em nor like 'em 25 years ago, but now... Enjoy what you are accurate with. RD

With the ammo crunch and prices of available ammo and general lack of availability of many components alot of us old hands are finding it next to impossible to either afford nor find the materials we need. So sometimes you have to get creative. I was lucky enough a few months back to acquire a...

Looking for the above. I've got a nice M64 SS snubby with Pach's on it, also I need an old style Tyler T grip for my N frame Pre 26, I've got a trigger shoe for it but need the T for the 'retro' look. Also I'm needing a couple hundred pieces of .25-20wcf brass for an minty Remington Model 25...

Thanks all, again, sorry for the delay. Between work, keeping up the property and dealing with the aftermath of the move time just flies by (flyes by??), sometimes I wonder if I did the right thing, it's almost like taking a fish out of familiar waters but they are settling in. My Parents...

This is the first post I've made since about December of last year (maybe longer), not to say anyone has missed me but I've missed alot on the Forum apparently. It has been an incredibly busy time, after a few years of coaxing I finally got my Parents (both in thier late 70's) to agree to leave...

Well, I seem to have done it again: inadvertantly gotten myself into a jam. I origiinally posted this thread for information sake, the comment about 'if anyone is interested in this..' was meant for the small base Lee dies and shell holder. Somehow this has been misconstrued to indicate I...

So as not to make the Moderators angry, please PM with any offers. Small diameter Lee stuff and some others have found a new home but again please PM so as not to cause problems, I didn't mean to put these for sale in this section of the Forum, just posting for info purposes but we can talk off...

Took posession of a box of old reloading items Friday, many old small diameter Lee turret dies and one turret head (if anyone wants these items let me know, for postage they are yours!), also some very useable dies like a .25-06 & .30-30 neck sizer a set of Pacific .222 and others. Mixed in...