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I remember a high school classmate who regularly shot 32 Win Special ammo out of his single shot .410. 
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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Campfire Ranger
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Adding to the store of empirical knowledge, .41 Magnum rounds shot out of a .44 Magnum will only split the cases about 3/4 of their length.
Accuracy, however, is not good enough to hit a log at 15 feet. Which, after the third miss, is what made me finally check to see what was in the chambers.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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I would clean the barrel then rock on....He mite have some unburned powder in the barrel...
randy..
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Friends have the habit of shooting my 44 Mags in their 45 Colts.
Good thing they aren't SAA's or replicas.... I've done that. Didn't group very well.
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I have a .25-308, and I make it a point to NEVER use necked-up .243 Win brass. Instead, I always use necked-DOWN 7-08. Just in case somebody finds one of my handloads and believes the headstamp...
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
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I have a .25-308, and I make it a point to NEVER use necked-up .243 Win brass. Instead, I always use necked-DOWN 7-08. Just in case somebody finds one of my handloads and believes the headstamp... good man.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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A few BR shooters load their 220 Russian with 224 bullets when fireforming their 6mmPPC. They do it in their old 6ppc barrel or 6ppc fireforming barrels.
I just use a case full of Bullseye and a wax plug. I do fireform my 30BR brass in a 6mm barrel. I drill the bore for about 4" with a .302 drill and chamber with my 30BR reamer. I do not do my fireform with a bullet.
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I've heard of people using it in a pinch when WBY ammo was not avalable. Just blows out the case with a short neck. Kinda like the 7RM cases I found.
Sean
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Out of a 30-06 - 308's shoot low, and are unreloadable.
Mark
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I discovered that the accuracy of a 270 Win in a 270Wby wasn't very good either. Made a funny noise and was hard to eject also.
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I have a .25-308, and I make it a point to NEVER use necked-up .243 Win brass. Instead, I always use necked-DOWN 7-08. Just in case somebody finds one of my handloads and believes the headstamp... Same as I do useing 308 Lapua brass to make 7-08.
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Campfire Kahuna
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Is anyone marking their brass, when using reformed brass from another caliber/cartridge? I saw some brass where a groove had been cut on a lathe, making the head-stamp illegible. Maybe something simpler would be worthwhile. Sharpie color the head on 257 wtby from 7 rem mag...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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On another site someone was asking about where to get 35 Whelen brass. Somebody else told him just to fire loaded .30-06 ammo in his Whelen. He said that's what he does to make brass.............. 
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Found a half a box's worth of .25-06 brass at the range that had been fired in a .30-06. Would have been interesting to know how the guy got through half a box before realising something was amiss!
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Blong - you discovered a trade secret. When selling a 308 load up a 243 round and tell the buyer it is the softest kicking 308 he will ever shoot. Here - give it a try..! 
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of
. Confucius
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I noticed a .338 Win Mag in the shell belt of a guy who shoots a .300 H&H one time.
Probably saved the guy's face and maybe his life. If he would have been in a hurry to reload while shooting at game, I doubt he would have noticed the .338, and I'm pretty sure it would have chambered.
I probably hit more elk with a pickup than you have with a rifle. I have yet to see anyone claim Leupold has never had to fix an optic. I know I have sent a few back. 2 MK 6s, a VX-6, and 3 VX-111s.
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I saw a guy stick a 30/06 shell in a 300 winmag/ Brand new
BAR and fire it. Blew the trigger mechanism out the bottom,
it was hanging from his finger, which was still there. I would
have bet it wouldn,t fire but it did. He was very lucky and
wasn,t hurt.
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I knew a person who shot .45 Colts in a .410 shotgun.
I didn't see this, and I don't even know if the shell would chamber, but a long time ago, a person told me he shot .410 shotgun shells in a 7.7 Jap.
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Popped a 270 in a 7mag. Once. Gas and brass particles in many places where it shouldn't be. Ole 110 never missed a step, however.
Wear shooting glasses!
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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