The 45 ACP is about as American as apple pie and just as fun! Our good ol’ 45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) was adopted by the military back in 1911 and has been used extensively in war and peace since. Law enforcement officers also took to it quickly as did many private citizens. It’s been […]
Last fall I had the chance to take a couple of wild hogs here in Oklahoma using big bore Hornady bullets, one with a single action revolver, the other with a lever action rifle. Hogs are an invasive species, not native to North America but they’ve sure made themselves at home here. Their population is […]
Shooting 44 Magnum is a lot of fun but it gets expensive in a hurry with factory ammunition! A handloader can greatly reduce the cost of practice ammunition by loading 44 Magnum ammunition with Berry’s plated bullets. In this video, we continue our “Bang for the Buck” series by looking at Berry’s 44 Magnum 220-grain […]
Shooting subsonic 45-70 ammo is fun and useful, but relying on factory ammunition gets expensive. Here’s how to use our “cheat code” to load and shoot subsonic 45-70 ammunition and save a LOT of money doing so. Disclaimer Ultimate Reloader LLC / Making with Metal Disclaimer: (by reading this article and/or watching video content you […]
Hunters nearly always have favorite pet loads they rely on year after year. I wanted to take a moment to recap some of ours! Disclaimer Ultimate Reloader LLC / Making with Metal Disclaimer: (by reading this article and/or watching video content you accept these terms). The content on this website (including videos, articles, ammunition reloading […]
There’s a tendency to think of Berry’s plated bullets as only handgun bullets. This is not the case at all — they produce a number of bullets for popular lever action rifles. Here at Ultimate Reloader we’ve used them in the .30-30, .357 Magnum, and .45-70 lever actions with great success. Disclaimer Ultimate Reloader LLC […]
Over the years I’ve used a lot of different handgun powders. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was primarily Bullseye, Unique and 2400—powders that are no longer readily available. I often used Unique as a general purpose powder, useful for every handgun cartridge I loaded. It was a great powder, but in those days it […]
Perhaps the most frustrating part of enjoying a niche or less popular round is ammunition costs. You’ll find multiple bullet weights and brands of 9mm and .223 ammunition at every sporting goods store. Such isn’t the case with .357 SIG. Reloading used to be the surefire way to save, but components have risen in price. […]
Some things don’t change very often. Clay pigeons were invented in 1875 and by 1900 trap shooting had become an Olympic sport. The clay pigeons replaced live birds and glass balls as aerial shotgun targets. Over the past 100+ years, clay pigeons have remained heavy and break easily if dropped. This year, things changed. Enter […]
I started using Sierra Bullets in the 1970s and I’ve always found them accurate and reliable. I’ve used them for competition, on SWAT, and hunting both varmints and big game. I shot out several .308 Winchester barrels at around 6,000 rounds each with .30 caliber 155 and 168 grain Sierra MatchKing bullets. For varmint and […]
Why swap the stocks on a shotgun? Two primary reasons stand out: to upgrade to stocks that better fit the shooter or to replace worn or cracked stocks. Many shotguns live a hard life, in and out of duck blinds, trucks, boats and exposed to bad weather. Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks offers a variety of replacements […]
Unquestionably, 9mm is the self-defense caliber of choice for a majority of people. It’s effective, has much less recoil than the .45, and is far less expensive to shoot. However, some still believe “bigger is better” theory when it comes to bullets. I’ll happily concede that I’m a confirmed fan of the .45 ACP, particularly […]
You know I’m the .30-06 guy…so why am I hunting with a 6.5 Creedmoor out of season? It was late February, and my old friend contacted me with an offer I couldn’t refuse — a winter deer hunt! He had access to “damage control” mule deer tags for an area here in Chelan County, Washington. […]
Have you ever wondered how the .44 Russian, .44 Special, and .44 Magnum compare? Disclaimer Ultimate Reloader LLC / Making with Metal Disclaimer: (by reading this article and/or watching video content you accept these terms). The content on this website (including videos, articles, ammunition reloading data, technical articles, gunsmithing and other information) is for demonstration […]
Trail Boss was an excellent powder for subsonic rifle handloads, but it’s become very difficult to obtain. Hodgdon responded to that by publishing a number of different subsonic rifle loads, with much more readily available powders. We chose to use Titegroup to load a pair of popular cartridges: .308 Winchester and .45-70. In this video […]
What’s better, the good old fashioned .300 Win Mag, or the newcomer — the 300 PRC? In this story, we dig into comparing these 2 cartridges. We go head-to-head, looking at case capacity, recoil, ballistics, load data, and more. Check it out! Disclaimer Ultimate Reloader LLC / Making with Metal Disclaimer: (by reading this article […]
