Happy 35th Anniversary S&W L-Frame!
[…] decades has been the Black Hills 240-grain JHP load using Hornady XTP’s. I’ve taken 24 Texas whitetails and an Idaho […]
[…] decades has been the Black Hills 240-grain JHP load using Hornady XTP’s. I’ve taken 24 Texas whitetails and an Idaho […]
[…] names such as FIE, Kleen Bore, RWS, Beeman, CCI, RCBS, Hornady, Federal, AMT and Outers. Strangely, the only full-page gun […]
[…] 200-grain JHP with groups averaging 1.94″ and 897 feet-per-second velocity. Hornady Critical Defense 185-grain FTX JHP averaged 3.07″ groups at […]
[…] alternative, I used the seater die from a set of Hornady match grade dies for the .280 Ackley Improved. Not […]
[…] actually purchase boxes of these packets from outfits such as Hornady, Liberty Safe, Sentry Safe, Cabelas or Midway. They’re also […]
[…] round balls and I use those from both Speer and Hornady interchangeably and with excellent results. Round balls are usually […]
[…] a jacketed bullet load I can be happy with the Hornady 250, Sierra 240, or Speer 260 grain JHP over […]
[…] extraordinary. Once broken in, the L5 gobbled up those gaping Hornady and Federal HPs like a monkey on an orange. […]
[…] of its box gave groups about half that size with Hornady 300-grain factory ammo. Be prepared — you should also […]
[…] types of ammo from several different manufacturers including Black Hills, Hornady and Federal. For magazines, I brought along about a […]