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The charge wasn't the main reason for the recoil. It was the four steel weights needed to open a 3-4 metre square net at 20 metres, one 19x60mm cylindrical steel weight per barrel giving a total...

Ah yes, the 'good old days'! 16 hour days and bruised shoulders from testing the bloody things, having plenty of money from making them and no time to spend it from trying to keep up with demand,...

For a great many years I have been investigating and experimenting with the unusual performance of bullets after they have contacted something. This has also given me a fair bit of 'expert witness'...

In my career as a gunsmith I got to see a great many examples of damage caused by poor handloading and sheer carelessness, buckled, bent, and blown guns, shattered stocks, and a surprising lack of...

Dies, .427" lead projectiles (NOT .429" as in other .44's), and cases are all fairly readily available. The M92 is made strong enough to use with smokeless loads. You are correct with the Saddle...

Sometimes rubbish gets trapped in the stock recess below the cartridge lifter. Take the stock off and check, cleaning as required. If you can see marks in the woodwork where the lifter sits when the...

Hold the frame at the bottom of the grip and give the frame (where 02 is written) a sharp rap with the plastic handle end of a large screw driver and the plate will pop up. The same technique works...

There are many variables that can affect accuracy, one of which is barrel harmonics. These can vary according to the burning characteristics of the powder. The theoretically correct powder will start...

My old Husqvarna .30 '06 with a 150 bullet at 3,000+ fps will do everything you want it to and then some. My long-range target rifle is good to 1,000+ metres running a 168 grain at 2950 with 2213SC...

Full packets in tidy condition have some collector value. Please put some pictures up.

Matchlock of the type made by the hill tribes, used with shot for birds and monkeys. Since the war they were left with a lot of US equipment as they were an allied guerilla force supported by the...

I unloaded a few rounds of 9mm at the range on Speed Steel.

I started deerstalking with a fully wooded .303 that was my 16th birthday (1963) present from my father, which cost him just under 10 Pounds from Turner & LeBrun for a new FTR'd BSA No.1 Mk.III*....

What you are experiencing is a common phenomenon and the simple solution is to not clean it so often, and when you do then just a quick pass with a dry brush is enough. My .223 Tikka CTR is similar...

Yes, the Silver Pigeon has a take-down barrel. Open the action, undo the knurled nut on the barrel lug (it remains captive in the lug), twist the barrel to the right a 1/4 turn and the barrel can be...

Bugger the tent at this time of year. Pick a spell of good weather and just sleep out. We used to do it often in a nice wee camping spot near the waterfall on Nimrod, right in amongst the animals and...

Call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer milled to moulded. I just can't bring myself to buying a gun with a plastic frame. The new manufacturing techniques are only producing guns that are almost as...

:sarge: I know nuzzink!

The Margolin front sights were a shrink fit. To remove then you need to disassemble the elevating system, hold the barrel in padded jaws, quickly heat the sight ring with a torch then tap off with a...

Those projectiles were made by Winchester for the .22 Rimfire Magnum and were available in bulk packs for a short period in the 1980's.
Most were purchased for loading .22 Hornet but people also...

Case length is always going to be an ongoing problem with the .22 Hornet because the long taper on the case lends itself to stretching. The .22 K Hornet was developed to overcome the stretch problem...

Converting an '03 to .22LR is fraught with difficulty as the entire feed system must be changed to suit the smaller diameter cases, the barrel has to be chamber sleeved and rechambered, or (the best...

Welcome from Central Otago! I can't wait for the story behind the name. An acquaintance of mine was attacked by a Brown bear several years ago when working over there. He is alive and well but has...

The only truly successful system is the press bolted firmly to a solid bench. I have mine at the right-hand end, reasonably out of the way and it makes a useful coat and hat rack as well.

I disregarded that, my bad! I have owned 4 .50 cals but they were all M2's (different kettle of fish altogether).