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By Jeff Brown.   Many years ago I had a .22RF Martini action rifle converted to centrefire and rebarreled to .32-20 (click here for the article).  In short, the reason for the build was to create a small game rifle shooting subsonic ammo through a suppressor that would still have generous knock down power on the very large European hares we have in NZ.  My loa

By Jeff BrownI like to brew up batches of lead alloy for my bullet casting sufficiently large that I can rely on a decent degree of consistency in my projectiles over a reasonable run of casting.  Ideally a batch would be 100-200lb at the time but like with so many other aspects of the hobby I am limited by the equipment available.  My basic smelting/batching set up is a form

Excerpt from Fouling Shot 267 By Larry Gibson In the past I have posted this explanation of why I drill out flash holes for use with low end reduced loads: "I shoot many thousands of squib loads in various calibers but mostly in .30s. Many of these are rimless cartridges; 30-06, .308, .308 CBC, 7.65, 7.62x39 etc. The squib loads I shoot most often is a Lee 314-90-SWC-TL over 2. 7