Recent content by sgt_zim

For 225 gr pills, you've got quite a few choices with BC north of .45, and that's what it'll take to reach 250 with enough speed for expansion and with enough energy to put through an elk. For the lighter ones, what you gain in speed you give up in BC and still end up with about the same max...

338 bullets are common, so is 308 brass.

Always wanted a 338 Federal. Nice thing about 225 gr pills at 2400 fps is that's still in the wheelhouse of reliability for non-premium pills.

That didn't take very long

In for a penny, in for a pound. If you roll your own, you can always dial 458 Lott back to 458 WM loads, but you can't push 458 WM loads to 458 Lott levels.

If we go by creation date rather than the date a cartridge got a SAAMI spec, then every rifle I own fires a cartridge developed before I was born, the newest of the lot being 280 AI, and Ackley first came out with that in the late 1950s. As for all the "new" stuff... Ecclesiastes 1:9 That...

Got the missus a 375 H&H Ruger #1 when we got back from our safari last year, we're both lefties. "But I wanted a magazine rifle..." She doesn't understand how difficult and expensive it is to buy LH DG rifles. If somebody gave me a Ruger #1 in something like 450-400 or 458 or 416, I'd feel...

LLMs...I'm still not terribly impressed with. Furthermore, they're far too easily poisoned. I had posited with colleagues a year or so ago I thought it would take a massive effort to poison the data. Some research surfaced this past summer it isn't as much of a heavy lift as I had presumed it...

Gold and silver are money because everyone who lives in other than a barter economy will ultimately trade goods/services for them. Literally everybody.

Interesting take, and it's more or less the same as most prognosticators.