An indecently belated merry Christmas and happy and prosperous new year to you all! Time away from the keyboard and phone is especially valuable time ...

I was told by someone that was recently, i.e November 2022, in Austria on a hunting trip that there were a range of Somchem powders in both of the gun...

Smashing the bullets with a hammer is a good way to test how well the coating bonds. Doubt if it's meaningful as a test of what the bullet would ...

My best .270 cast and powdercoated load is every bit as accurate as the best I achieved with jacketed bullets just at approx 70% of the velocity.

I will try it, but I suspect their velocity claims are ambitious.I am also very dubious of the bullet bases - the base is very critical in regard to a...

I genuinely enjoy the process of making rifle ammunition from casting to powder coating of bullets to case prep and assembly. I bugger off to the load...

Wanna see you swat a mozzie with that E ReaderThis is the age of the Bug-a-Salt old timer. None of the tacticool kids swat mozzies any more.

What velocity are they supposed to be good to?

Agree on the ereaders. I had a kindle for quite a while and was very happy with it. The 'e-ink' (I think that's what they are called) p...

Books are different to the internet in that they take more work to mine for what they have in them. I know things in detail that I read in books, e.g....

Damn, that was a good buy.

I wouldn't consider loading rifle ammo on a progressive unless it was for SADPA type close range use in a semi auto.

There was a time when there were companies that imported books and magazines as scrap paper and then sold them by weight. I frequented one in Randburg...

I used spray on lube again in my rifle cases, will I never learn. 5 cases in and die jammed. This works so well on straight cases, but on rifle cases ...