Recent content by EBaker

This is my dad's setup. It's setup so two people can load at once. Bullets are organized by caliber and mass for the most part except for some of my odd ball stuff.

I would say no. It's already less common than it used to be, but it's also easier than it ever was to get information. I'm in my late 20s and have helped people younger than myself get started. Granted, I do very little reloading with common easy to find cartridges, or virtually none for that...

I had all my practical bases covered for hunting and defense purposes to where I had a gun chambered in a reasonably appropriate cartridge for hunting everything from rabbits to moose except for a DG rifle by probably 21 years old and since then I've mostly started getting into more interesting...

I'll tell on myself with one. For the background on this, I have a Henry 45 colt I shoot suppressed, and for anything suppressed I like to be subsonic if possible with the heaviest for caliber bullets I can get to maximize energy while staying quiet. For this reason, I handloaded a bunch of 45...

We're in different conditions. I prelube bullets, and just a couple of weeks ago I was hunting in 90°+ heat. Early season is worse. I've seen better performance with conicals on deer and see no reason to go with a less effective option.

I run the exact same bullet lubed with a mix of deer tallow and beeswax in both my tc hawken and pedersoli kodiak 50, but with 100 grains of powder. I've had good results hunting with them, but I couldn't tell you what the bullets looked like after shooting an animal because they blow through...

I wear the same one I wear everywhere else. It's an Omega Seamaster that's older than I am.

It's a cartridge that I would categorize as good enough. It doesn't stand out in any way in regards to design or ballistics and it doesn't have the mystique or historical interest of some other similarly performing cartridges, so nobody thinks about it. I have 2 7mm-08s and in both cases I got...

If any of y'all happen to be around San Angelo, Texas I have 3 boxes of PPU 9.3x62 that I'll give you. I bought a drilling on gunbroker that listed the rifle barrel as 9.3x62, but it turned out to be a 38-55.

I got the exhibition grade bastogne walnut stock from here: https://richardsmicrofitgunstocks.com/ They come 90 percent finished. The guy doing the fit and finish work is someone a friend recommended but he just does it on the side occasionally. He doesn't have a website or anything like that...

My CZ 458 win got the exact same crack after probably 50 rounds. I didn't want to worry about it so I just went ahead and ordered a nice exhibition grade stock for it and I'm having it properly finished, bedded, and installed by someone much more competent at that kind of task than I am and it's...

I'd estimate somewhere around 140-150 days a year. I live in Texas and hunt from the beginning of dove season through the end of quail season. I work week on week off and use all of my vacation time during deer season and spend about 6.5 days hunting on my days off. That makes it the beginning...

I got this one on my dad's place this year with what is to me a very interesting Standard Arms Model G 35 remington. It's a gas operated semi auto that you can run as a pump action by turning the gas block. Now I'm onto public and seeing plenty, but taking my time with it using a pedersoli...

Update: I got a suggestion that it had been rechambered 10.75x60r Grundig in the early 1900s on Facebook and that definitely makes the most sense. It is nearly identical to the 444 marlin.

That was my first thought too. I even ordered some before the gun came in to try. The problem is that it's a straight wall and the mauser is bottlenecked. The mauser also has a .446" diameter bullet.