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Excerpt from Fouling Shot 19. By Frank Marshall, Jr. ON MORE STRAIGHT CASES The .25-20-86, .32-40-165 and .38-55-255 created such an impression among riflemen during the fabulous blackpowder era into the smokeless Scheutzen period that even today, mention of these legendary rounds conjures images of thumbnail sized groups . My Uncle Will was not immune to this fever, and when Winche

Technical Ramblings: Base Upset © Ken Mollohan Cincinnati, OHreprinted from fouling shot #197 jan/feb 2009 Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t think obturationplays the role with cast bullets that many shooters suppose. In at least some cases (with hard cast bullets),obturation apparently occurs neither in the throat norwith the peak pressure, even with very powerful loadsinten

Excerpt from "Speaking Frankly" with the late Frank Marshall.Fouling Shot #2. Target shooters are preoccupied in their quest for sub-m.o.a. cast bullet accuracy, and this misleads the average shooter into thinking that getting "adequate" accuracy from cast loads requires sophisticated techniques. This just isn't so. Elaborate refinement of loads and techniques IS essential to