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Doug Bowser
Po Box 7358
McComb, MS 39649
dougbowser@cableone.net (Note: Please use this email address when inquiring and ordering. Having to find buyers in PM's
is sometomes...

Most of the Match ammo PPY makes in .308 is 168 gr. The ammo is in .30 cans and the cans are numbered. I also had to inventory the ammo from a large stash. It is the way it came out.

Doug

Doug Bowser
Po Box 7358
McComb, MS 39649
dougbowser@cableone.net
601-341-8797
This is reloading supplies and ammo from the estate of one of my gun club members. We are trying...

I accidentally deleted your email to me. I am sorry. Here are the photos of the 1917 S&W
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I inadvertently deleted your message this morning. Sorry


douglasmbowser@yahoo.com

MILITARY FIREARMS FOR SALE

All firearms are as described. Buyer pays shipping and insurance as indicated. A 3 day non-firing inspection period applies. CRFFL eligibility as indicated I do not...

01FFL dealers can bring handguns into the USPO if they are wrapped. The same goes for any citizen with a handgun made before 1899.

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TRAPDOOR SPRINGFIELD RIFLE

At the end of the American Civil War, the US Ordnance Corps had 1,000,000 muzzle loading rifled muskets in storage. The advent of the self...

THE COLT’S MODEL 1903 US ARMY REVOLVER
By Doug Bowser

I recently had a Colt’s 1903 US Army revolver. It was the last in a series of revolvers that started in 1894. The early Colt revolvers were...

CARTRIDGE DEVELOPMENT AND FORMING
BY DOUG BOWSER
When I was a partner in the Great Southern Arms Gunshop, we were able to purchase several 7.62x25mm Soviet Block Pistols. Ammunition was readily...

VETTERLI-VITALI 10.4x47R Model 1870/87 by Brescia 1883, 33.5” barrel, 4 shot, bore is mint, barrel is still bright blue, the in the white receiver is starting to turn brown, the stock is VG+,...

MY UNCLE AND THE BATTLE OF CORAL SEA

By Doug Bowser

My Uncle Frank was 34 years old in 1942. He spent 8 years on the Great Lakes in the Merchant Marine. On December 10, 1941 he was sent a...

Mauser 7.65x53mm Argentine Model 1898/09, 29” barrel, 5 shot, this is a consecutively serial numbered pair, both rifle’s overall condition is excellent, the original muzzle caps are serial...

EXPERIENCES WITH A MAUSER MODEL 1871/84

It was 1961 when I ordered a Mauser 1871/84 rifle in 11x60R. It came from Golden State Arms in California. They had two grades of rifles. They were NRA...

Both the groove diameter of the barrel and chamber throats measured .452". I do not think this is the norm. The groove diameter of the barrels are usually .455". I believe this to be unusual. The...

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The old Remington ammo used .321" bullets. This was done so the ammo would be safer in the .318" bores of the 1888 Commission Rifles. This may be why the ammo you have chambered in a 1903.

Thanks for the info.

MY FATHER’S LAST BATTLE IN WW1

My Father , John William Bowser (1890-1960) and his younger brother, McKinley “Mack” Bowser, joined the US Army on April 7th, 1917. That was one day after...

AN INCIDENT AT THE BATTLE OF ST. MIHIEL

My Father’s Unit, the Third Ohio Machinegun Battalion, was at St. Mihiel in September 12-15, 1918. The attack was made by 550,000 US Troops and 48,000...

A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT SERVICE RIFLE SHOOTING AT CAMP PERRY, OHIO

I started shooting Highpower Rifle matches in 1962. The Elbridge Rod and Gun Club had loaner M1 Rifles and corrosive .30 M2 ammo for...

THE COLT’S MODEL 1903 US ARMY REVOLVER
By Doug Bowser

I recently had a Colt’s 1903 US Army revolver. It was the last in a series of revolvers that started in 1894. The early Colt revolvers were...

RELOADING FOR THE SWISS K-31 KARBINE
When I was at the CMP State Rifle Championships, I asked one of the shooters for a 7.5x55 G11 Swiss Army cartridge. I needed the cartridge because I had heard...