When I bought my 22tcm I bought a load of brass and bullets from Ammo Supply Warehouse. I no longer see the bullets on their website. That's because ALL the bullets available wound up in a corner of your basement next to the nuts and corn that you collect before winter comes around, you greedy litt...

Thank you, Squib Joe! Looks like I'm going to buy a steel RIA if I get into this caliber. Google shows ZERO handloading data, and my guess is that the round nosed 9R bullets aren't commercially available. The whole point of the 22 TCM is to be able to use standard jacketed 22 caliber rifle bullets. ...

Nothing. The BFG Bass Pro Shop in Denham Springs, LA has a wide assortment of handguns, but a very narrow assortment of BRANDS. They have Kimber and Glock and S&W and about 5 more BIG brands in every model and color they make, but no Guncrafters, no Wilson, no EAA, no CZ, no Mag Research, and no...

the sales tax is 7.5% in the State of Loosiana, and an extra 2.5% in Nawlin's. On a very few days a year, and Labor Day is one of them, there are NO sales taxes on guns! The Academy and Bass Pro Shops are gonna be absolutely nutz! :( :o :o :mrgreen: Louisiana has Open carry with No Permit just like ...

Yes, you DO need some help. One of the most dangerous things you can do is go from a "simple" turret press to a progressive reloader like a Dillon, and while the Dillon is THE brand to have, you can still wind up in trouble. There are certain methods, checks, and double checks you perform ...

The twist rate of the barrel is inversely proportional to the twist rate of your ratty knickers while shooting the gun. A high twist rate will stabilize the bullet nicely, producing good groups and shooting satisfaction. A low twist rate will allow the bullet to destabilize, yaw, and go into the tar...

I have never tried this either, but based on what other people have posted about jacket separation, I can't imagine how this can possibly work by shoving it through a resize die. As long as there are longitudinal forces working on the bullet as it's pushed through, the copper and lead will not move ...

NAAAHHHH - It will go West of NOLA by quite a bit. Houston, on the other hand, will have as many small lakes as the Boundary Waters

old guy wrote:Awfully quite around here.

Yes, it's quite quiet around here these days....

Looks good, although it is still in the path of an errant bullet.... :( :o :shock: :? That is one other thing about any chrono - you have to get it far enough away from the muzzle that the initial fireball isn't picked up by the skyscreens. And of course, the farther you have to move it away to get ...

My answer is slightly different than the choices, and when I work up a load I chrono EVERYTHING, and graph the data in Excel, and look at both the velocity and standard deviation of the velocity. Now, you can try to get by cheap, and deal with having to type in or re-type in data :x , and that syste...

Have you chronoed both loads to see how consistent they are?? Or, to put it another way, how did you come to the conclusion that these loads are the best ones to go with? I don't shoot either caliber, and even if I did, with handloading there is no such thing as one BEST load, but what makes these t...

Just for the sake of posting something funny and waking everybody up, YES, I do compensate for bullet setback! I move my gun 20 - 30 mils closer to the target to compensate for the bullet being that much farther away from the target!!

The ONE thing you do NOT want to do is go down the road of trying to keep your bullets from moving by somehow "cooking up" a compressed load!!! It's not that compressed loads are inherently any more dangerous than non-compressed loads, but you NEVER, EVER, EVER, want to try to use the powd...

That actually makes sense. Seeing as you're so far North that you're out in the wilderness where God left his overshoes after he created the Heaven and Earth, they have taken the price all the way down to their cost to get rid of it.....