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Here's one mention;
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/these-3-snipers-had-more-kills-than-carlos-hathcock-in-vietnam

I am interested, so I tapped google;
http://www.dropforging.net/drop-forging-vs-press-forging.html

I'm not a metallurgist or materials guy either, but I had a conversation with Boots Obermeyer on...

I just received word that Eric England has passed away. Amazing Man, Marine and Shooter.

I just received word that Eric England has passed away. Amazing Man, Marine and Shooter.

You work for Bula?
I can only guess that press forging is applying pressure to orient grain structure but perhaps without the violence of a drop forge or hammer forge.

What is Kroil #9? Google turned up nothing...Is it a mix your own (like Ed's Red) of Kroil and Hoppe's #9? What proportion and with what benefit? Always looking for something less smelly that...

Thanks,
I have friends that have dragged out their M14's for highpower and have been peripherally aware of what they'd done. I'd heard about adjustable gas ports, vented caps, relieved pistons,...

Back in the day when the M14 ruled highpower, the convention was that 4064 was the slowest powder you should use. Is there anything special you did to the gas system to shoot 4350?

The first target is called an A32. At first glance, I thought the second was an A-36, but it has white scoring rings (1 and 2) which the A-36 does not. Is there any nomenclature on the bottom of...

It was actually the M1 projectile that was used in machine guns. The bullets exceeded the safe maximum range of the machine gun ranges of the day and they went back to the drawing board to come up...

A while ago, Precision Shooting ran an article about the testing that Crane did on the 300 Win Mag. They tried bullets with the tips "spun" closed in an effort to improve the BC, but that resulted...

I have a friend that was involved in the fielding of M118LR and I can fill in some blanks. During the development of 118LR, all types of powders were tested, and the Vihtavuori rep told me that one...

You've sent me the photo's of your workbench. I'm not sure I'm up for the basement. I will however jump at an invitation to your range! Give a call when you are ready to send some C77 further...

Hey Grandpa Yoda! Good to see you still posting and sharing the knowledge. Thanks to you, I spent about 20 years chasing C-77 without ever getting my hands on any. I did get some ss109. Some RG...

I think people over think the over spinning part of the equation. The benchresters will tell you that you want a slow a twist as absolutely necessary to delivery the bullet point forward reliably. ...

Thanks JimF,
I can only hope that the Original Poster takes it to heart as well. FWIW, Maury Krupp epitomizes that philosophy. He competes with his rifle of choice, understands the limitations,...

Welcome to the sport. I hope you get to shooting soon. I think you will find the highpower crowd to be a good, bunch always ready to offer help to a new shooter. If I may offer a bit of advice...

I had a chance to interview Maj. Bruce Wincensen, a retired USMC Ordnance Officer about his role in the development of the M16A2 some years back, and during the course of our discussion, he mentioned...

My info came from the same friend that ran Sniper Section at the PWS during the fielding of M118LR. Previously he tried to work with LC to improve the quality of the 173gr projectile, but found that...

I recall when the CMP was selling M118LR, and there was much discussion as to why it was being surplussed, and why some boxes had mixed year headstamps. I recall that my friend who was Commander of...

Wow...
More pics
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/BlingRat/M118-7.jpg

I have a friend who is a fellow competitor/collector that has pursued the history of military match ammo from an academic standpoint. There's a lot of history there. The gray area's are in the...

Thank you for all that information Cosine26 and all. Is that you Ray? I suspect that folk are treating Henderson's writing as gospel, where there's a certain amount of "fill in the blank" or...

International Match was a low velocity, low recoil round produced for 300M International Shooting per Hatcher's spec. IIR the velocity specified was ~2200 to 2300fp and was loaded exclusively by FA....

I can give some corroboration to what Marty says. My friend was head of PWS, Sniper Section when he received a call from a certain authority that they wanted to check for a rifle that may have 103...