Cast Bullets - RELOADER'S PRESS

Reading through older hand- loading manuals recently, roughly from the 1930s to the 1970s, it was apparent that nearly all of the popular writers of the period started out shooting cast bullets in rifles and handguns.

.38 SPECIAL

MIKE’S SHOOTIN’ SHACK

.24 NOSLER

WILDCAT CARTRIDGES

Primed And (Almost) Ready

In range

The Uberti Smith & Wesson Model 3 Russian

From the hip

MARLIN .44 MAGNUM HEAVYWEIGHT BULLETS

BULLETS & BRASS

SMITH & WESSON WEBLEY .455S

MIKE’S SHOOTIN’ SHACK

SHORT .410 SHOTSHELLS

CARTRIDGE BOARD

RIFLE BRASS HARDNESS

PRACTICAL HANDLOADING

.40-65 Winchester Center Fire

Loads for a Shiloh 1874 Sharps

All American .45s

Variations and Misconceptions

.300 Winchester Magnum

57 Years and Still Going Strong

.300 KONG

WILDCAT CARTRIDGES

.222 Remington Magnum

Modern Powders and Bullets for an Old Classic

Lyman Brass-smith All-American 8 Turret Press

Lyman’s history dates back to around 1878, when it began offering bullet moulds, tong tools, gun sights and other shooting-related products.

11.15x51R Kurz

Reinventing a 140-Year-Old Cartridge

Learn To Reload Load Development

Are three, five, seven or 10 shots enough to determine a load’s accuracy? These five-shot groups were fired from a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight 7mm-08 Remington loaded with Nosler 140-grain Ballistic Tips and 47.0 grains of Big Game.

Hornady A-Tip

New Bullets for Long Shooting

Artillery Luger

What does a gun writer do when confined to the couch while recovering from major surgery?

.270 Winchester Testing New Bullets and Powders

When the .270 Winchester appeared in 1925 as one of the rounds in the company’s new Model 54 bolt-action rifle, the chambering apparently did not sell spectacularly. This was partly due to established cartridges such as the .30 WCF (.30-30), then three decades old, and the .30 Gov’t ’06 (as the Model 54 was stamped). Many hunters assumed the .270’s original factory load, a 130-grain bullet advertised at 3,160 fps, was too fast and light for big game because they had grown up shooting the .44-40 and .45-70 and had just gotten used to .30-caliber bullets for big game.

9mm Luger Standard Pressure Loads

The 9mm Luger (9x19 Parabellum, 9mm/P-08, 9mm NATO, etc.) is currently the most handloaded pistol cartridge in the U.S., but to achieve that title it has taken more than a century, along with the development of new powders, bullets and guns. It also holds the distinct title of being the world’s most used military handgun and submachine gun cartridge. Furthermore, current statistics suggest more than 60 percent of U.S. police agencies use 9mms for duty. With nearly countless pistol configurations that range from full size competition models to compact concealed-carry versions as well as single- and double-action revolvers, its popularity among civilians has become significant.

Learn To Reload - Choosing Bullets

Everything rides on the bullet – the success of a hunt, a tight cluster in the bull’s-eye of a target or the clang of a steel plate at long distance. Before a bullet is sent on its flight to meet those expectations, a handloader must ensure it’s correct for the job and handloaded properly so it can perform its intended job.

.44 S&w Special: The Beginning - Cartridge Board

The .44 S&W Special was the result of at least 60 years of firearm evolution.

6.5x52mm American: Wildcat Cartridges

Those of us who enjoy wild-cats do not need much of an excuse to come up with another one.

6mm Creedmoor

Well over a century ago, quite a few cartridges were manufactured with their bullets protruding well out of their cases to leave room for powder.

Sellier & Bellot Rifle Primers

Some Americans think we invented everything and are the only people on earth who know how to make quality products.

Mike's Shootin' Shack

The second factor is mentioned because some moulds can be holy terrors to work with, while some are sheer pleasures.

Handloader's

Custom loads for the lucky winner.

Necking A Short Magnum To 6.5

There are so many different rifle cartridges that there is no tangible reason to add expense and trouble by working with a wildcat, but the intangibles attract us.

6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum

In the 1940's, Roy Weatherby began developing a series of hunting cartridges that would become the famous Weatherby magnums.