The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

In bolt action rifles, in which rounds don't have to withstand a severe feeding cycle, as ocurrs in a semiauto, an expander ball 0.001 smaller than the bullet is adequate. This is also best with cast lead bullets, because a soft bullet may be deformed when forced into a tight neck.

(This article originally appeared in the Cast Bullet Association’s Fouling Shot magazine and is cross-posted here by permission of the author). Re-visiting .30-’06 “Guard” and “Gallery Practice” Loads with Bullseye Powder C.E. "Ed" Harris, A few years ago friends gave me several thousand p...

See my recent post on results with my Tikka M39 "ersatz sniper"

I have one of the "ersatz-snipers" put together by Century Arms using a Finnish M39 rifle arsenal rebuilt in 1968 with a post-war PU scope and mount of the same type used on the PKM machinegun. The Finns never used the PU scope, but did use some PEs. The rifle shoots VERY well, actually BE...

My first advice is to avoid Federal brass for full power loads, because it tends to be soft and the primer pockets will get loose after only a few full charge reloads. I prefer USGI brass which has previously been fired either in M21 or M14 rifles or in bolt actions. You do NOT want 7.62 NATO cases ...

That's a lot of (seemingly very good!) information for a novice to digest. I'll start by asking: Does all of what you said about choosing bullet diameter based on throat diameter apply only to cast ammo? How does one choose the best jacketed bullet? Thanks, Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk That is ...

This is Outpost75. Those of you who may hang out on the Cast Boolits forum or Marlin Owners may know me from there. I'm a retired government "Boffin," who in another life on a parallel universe on another planet long ago and far away was involved in evaluating and exploiting items of captu...

This article on the M1903 is offered here thanks to the kind permission of the author, Ed Harris: “Cast Bullets Turn the .32 ACP into A Bunny Buster” OK children, todays cast bullet trivia question is … Who was J.V.K. Wagar? No, he was not a writer of children’s fiction depicting Norse mythology. If...

When I was stationed at MCDEC, Quantico, VA in the early 1980s we did comparison firings of opposing forces small arms as demonstrations for students the Marine Embassy Guards School, firing the RPK, PKM and various RPGs at armored and unarmored automobiles, and typical "guard shack" const...

To determine the correct bullet diameter for a rifle, the groove diameter of the barrel is NOT the determinant. INSTEAD you want to measure the "ball seat" or "throat," which is the unrifled portion ahead of the case mouth, before the rifling starts. The easiest way to do this is...