Recent content by johngibbs222

McKelvie Improved 244 H&H magnum if you are really sure barrel life isn't an issue. No experience other than what I've read but, iirc, 3600 fps with a 115 grain bullet sounds impressive. Not for me though. It was intended to reach out to cross canyon Scottish Highlands stags and African plains...

I already said winchester 94 AE 357mag, having had a bit time to reflect I have to say yeah, win 94 AE in 357 mag biggest p os I ever owned. It was like the little girl with a curl right in the middle of her forehead, in the nursery rhyme, when she was good she was very, very good but when she...

Did you push it or pull it? 😇

Over here in the UK we have an alien species or two, muntjac deer a small deer - a big buck is 40 pounds, dressed out about 30. Since I was 75 these are my big game and about all I could manage to drag out. The other alien is the chinese water deer, similar in size but I've never seen one of...

It was "ish" and it was back in the early sixties which is really stretching my grey matter.

264 win mag, I had one in the 1960s, everything about it was great until it got to about 900 ish rounds down the barrel when the accuracy fell off the hit the side of the barn from inside tree. It wasn't a cheap gun it was a Mannlicher. Barrel had been a 264 barrel for too long. I also hate the...

miroku winchester 94 in 38/55 LGS selling up missed it by a day :(

Win 94 AE in 357 it was dreadful, must have been one of the last off of the US production line before Miroku made a silk purse outa that sow's ear. I replaced the lever link, the little pressed steel cartridge stop and polished the internals before I could get it to cycle a mag full reliably...

MM1941, the problem I had was cracking round the case mouth when I ran the 357s through an M die and similar on the 223 and 30/30 iirc. I started annealing the rifle cases and have had no more issues but short of buying a machine to do the pistol cases ( I use my fingers as a temperature...

I reckon you're right. As it happens I bummed 10 starline srp cases from a mate and loaded them up with speer 168 grn match bthp which I'll try shortly. I had a bad experience with starline brass in both 357 mag and 223 and haven't used them since but my buddy swears by them, says they are...

Thanks for the offer, I'm in the UK, I reckon Uncle Sam would get a twist in his knickers if you tried to export that🤫

Old Browning BLR 81 in 308 topped with a slightly younger Zeiss Diavari 1.5x6 on Talley one piece rings, usurps my 94 win 30/30 as it's nearly as light and quicker to unload at the end of the day. It's stock, not touched a thing on it except to remove the fore-end bracket and free float the...

Mikecr, I don't object to efforts to crush my morale, it's all part of life's rich tapestry. I hope you make it to 80 then you'll realise what a dickhead you were :rolleyes:. I appreciate all the comments, good or bad, it all helps to focus the mind. I'm pretty sure I'll not get to try ranges...

All my rifles are hunting rifles and I'm finding that my 223 doesn't get used as much as it deserves. It's a Ruger #3 in 223 and as far as I can tell it's got a 1/10 twist rate on its 22" barrel. Using military silhouette targets I can get 100% headshots from a rest at 300 yards with it and...

Don't think they're silver. It was fairly common in military ammo for the soft steel jacketed bullets to be tombac plated. This is a high copper content alloy with up to 20% of zinc in its constituents, hence the silver colour. (the alloy is most commonly used in the buttons on eg denim clothes...