Missionary
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As the weeks roll along things are looking up.
Starline has 375 Winchester Brass
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Missionary
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That would make a fine corn cruncher thwaper !
ILL-Nois still does not trust us to use rifles but most any handgun is fine just so it is at least a 357. A 375 Supermag 8" Dan Wesson will duplicate the old BP 38-55 loads. The bean eaters have not yet stopped a 255 slug..
ILL-Nois still does not trust us to use rifles but most any handgun is fine just so it is at least a 357. A 375 Supermag 8" Dan Wesson will duplicate the old BP 38-55 loads. The bean eaters have not yet stopped a 255 slug..
This is how it was in Ohio, but that's what it took to get something other than shotgun slugs passed. Over time, hunters and the ODNR worked to refine and improve the law. Several years ago, it was finally seen that "straight-wall" cartridges in rifles wasn't going to cause the sky to fall down upon us, and in MY mind, is SAFER, because more people shooting at deer can hit the deer instead of something else.
Many criticize the law (mostly people who don't live here), but silly compromises had to be made to allow stick-in-the-muds to save face while passing it. As time passed, it was easier to show that it was a good thing. Pretty much the same process with our CCW laws.
I really don't NEED a 375, but as I liquidate the last of my surplus stuff that just takes up space, it may become my one extravagance. I HAVE a 357 Max carbine barrel I've never shot (because the 357 MAG barrel does so much so well), so this would be superfluous, but danged cool. My plan would be to load it to 38-55 levels using cast only.
Have to try to stick with the plan and liquidate the extra stuff so as not to get into that old situation again of having more stuff than I can manage, or have time to mess with. Still, this is on the top of the list for when I get there - and I am close to getting there.
Missionary, I would submit that we live in a golden age of shooting and reloading, regardless of politically motivated shortages.
In 1985 or something Dad decided to quit collecting his Big-Bore '94 and start shooting it. I asked him to install the peep sights he had been collecting in a small drawer, and I took three boxes of fired .30-30 brass to refit. I resized them through .32 Winchester, then, when 8mm Lebel dies squeezed the remaining shoulder, I passed them through a 333 OKH (?), and them .348 Winchester, and possibly put a wider expander plug in the .348 die to expand it further. I wrote it all down in a looseleaf binder still in Anchorage someplace.
I loaded them with the SAECO #373 RNFPGC at 270 grains over 25 grains 4198. After fire-forming, cleaning and trimming, I had, I think, 54 cases left over. The iron peep sights were a real boon, as I could not contract scope-eye. Now, I could order cases off the internet, a custom mold, with modern powder, and be off to the races. In retrospect, it would probably be a less expensive and more efficient endeavor, too.