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Excerpt from Fouling Shot #158, Jul-Aug 2002.By Forrest Asmus.This past shooting season has been an enjoy able one for me. Our editor has encouraged me to write about the upside-down gas check idea which I have tried in my buffalo rifle with interesting and encouraging results.  My rifle of choice this summer has been a Falling Block Works “J” action barreled up in .44/63 Ballard.

Greener developed the .310 cartridge in the early 1900’s as a target round.  Shortly after the Australian Government identified the potential of the mild round for military training purposes and adopted it for ‘cadet’ musketry; hence the assumed name of “.310 Cadet”. In line with the British tradition of naming cartridges relative to bore dimensions and not groove the Greener roun

Recently the club I belong to purchased, for member use, a case neck annealing machine.  Manufactured and invented here in New Zealand the device operates by induction and is programmable for hundreds of different cartridge cases.  Why anneal your brass case necks?  As brass is worked by sizing and firing (contracting and expanding) the crystalline structure changes and