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My GemPro 250 is dying, I think. I used to leave in on to keep the load cell warmed up, but now it shuts off after a minute or so. It still seems to weigh accurately after turned on but often won't return to zero after the pan is dumped. I end up weighing everything multiple times and am sick...

I received an email today announcing that the CMP had M1917's for sale. https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/m1917-enfield-rifle-information/ Interesting. It's been quite a while since they sold those in the store. A little pricey at $1100 and $1000, and they sound like they are pretty...

While reading @dh1633pm 's thread about his fathers notebook ( https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/found-gold-today.923503/#post-12727668 ), it got me to think about a box of handloads that came into my possession recently. A coworker of one of my sons gave him 2 boxes of high-brass...

I had a hard time deciding which forum to post this in, and have decided to try Handloading and Reloading. The background is I shot in a club highpower rifle match yesterday. The range has 200 and 300 yd. firing lines, so the 20 round slow fire prone stage is shot on reduced targets...

I've been stewing around the idea of getting a new bolt action rifle in 6.5 Grendel. I might go down to the local shop and kick a few tires shortly. The initial use would be competing in a pretty informal club benchrest league with some future deer/coyote hunting as definite possibilities. We...

When metal is heated, the electrons in the metallic atoms become excited and release energy as they jump around in their orbits. At some level of excitement the energy released crosses into the visible spectrum, causing the metal to glow. This temperature is different for different metals but...

Interesting encounter in PA. Didn't really eat it, just played with it. Black bears aren't usually that aggressive. https://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/national/article256307027.html One of my sons watched a red fox kill a squirrel from his deer stand last weekend. Another thing...

I've had a long standing suspicion that a cannelured bullet isn't as precise (group size) as the same smooth bullet. The two bullets I'm questioning are .224 55 gr. VMax and 68 gr. Hornady HPBT but wonder if the HR group has experience with others as well. I've shot quite a few 55 VMax through...

I guess that this is a good forum to post this considering the Teslong post running concurrently. This shot is in my Gibbs 1903A4. My questions are what causes them, and how do you get it out? Recently, I tried brushing and soaking with Slip 2000 Carbon Killer to no avail.

We got about 8 inches of snow today. Oh the joy! I decided to take a walk in the woods behind my house. I hadn't taken my 25-06 out yet this year so I dug it out of the safe. That first wet snow of the year sticks to everything. First stop was one of our ladder stands. Couldn't see more...

Does anyone do this? I have a slide with an Ultradot mounted that I'd like to mate with a frame with a better trigger and grips. I just put them together and they have a tight fit and everything functions. Both pistols are Springfields, a Range Officer and a Milspec.

Check this out https://imgur.com/a/3kabN Scroll down to see AR15/Garand comparison.

I'd like to get a shorter barrel for my 1100, with a 3" chamber and choke tubes. Now, I must run a 30" full choke if I want to shoot 3". I know that beggars can't be choosers but I'd like something between 20 and 26 inches. The only replacement barrels I can find are 2 2/4" with the exception...

I went to war with an English sparrow this afternoon that is terrorizing my bird houses. For several years I have had blue birds in one and tree swallows in the other. As near as I can figure, this male sparrow killed four young swallows (I opened the box after I started seeing him and not the...

The rifle in question is a M1 Garand that was accurized to a National Match configuration about three years ago by a local smith. It started its life as a CMP Special. My smith cautioned me to avoid removing it from the wood because the bedding job would become degraded and eventually need to...

Well finally, the PA Game Commission unanimously passed the rules allowing semi-automatic rifles for hunting. The PA Game Commission, an independent entity (at least for now), has the full authority to make that decision. It has to be finally approved at their March meeting. I think we were...

Does anyone know why Winchester chose .277 as their new caliber in 1925? Nothing like it before and there were close existing calibers in 6.5 and 7 mm. I suppose that American shooters weren't familiar with metric designations but using the decimal equivalents would have overcame that...

I just received a notice of updated rifle rules from the CMP yesterday, and the bombshell was they will now allow optics on AR 15 rifles. Up to 4.5X and with a 8.5 lb. weight limit. What say you competitors? Personally, I've gravitated more to the "games" events shooting the old guns...

A recent thread gave a link to the Hornady Ballistics Calculator. I was interested because I came up with a new load for my 30-06 vintage sniper rifle and wanted to get it on paper for 300 at my 200 yd. range. A 600 yd. come up will also be handy. Nonetheless, I plugged in my data for 175...

Barrels accumulate copper no matter what you do when they are new. I've read that some BR shooters clean after every group, others claim a fouled barrel shoots more accurately. What is your experience? I'm certainly not OCD about cleaning my rifles every time I shoot them, but after about...