I guess I'll wade into the waters on this one......What you're really doing is making Freestyle available in Field Pistol...okay...and putting Scopes on Production guns...which is kind of nice for us older guys that have a hard time with open sights now. But thinking that you're going to draw hunter...

The Iowa Handgun Metallic Silhouette Club, located at the Tri-State Gun Club range near Montrose, Iowa (in South East Iowa) will be starting their 34th season in April. We shoot on the second Sunday of the month, April thru October. We offer Big Bore and Small Bore. We also shoot .22 rifles, divided...

Thanks for the reply(sorry I'm so late on getting this out....always busy it seems). I kind of feel like the lone ranger whenever the topic of making jacketed bullets comes up. It's good to know that others are doing it. Interesting story....I feel the pain on the cost of jackets in the past five ye...

Wow...have to dig thru the memory banks for this one
Ia, Ill, Minn, Neb., S.D., N.D. Mont, Wis., Id, Az., Tx. Mo, Tenn., Mass., Ind., Oh., Vir. Kan,
Hope I didn't miss any. I have a map in my reloading room and used to stick pins in for each range and state.

Well, the first step is casting the cores, or you can buy the correct diameter lead wire and just snip off a certain length. I use an adjustable die for casting the core. This is simply four sleeves that have a threaded rod running up from the bottom of the sleeves. I use this for 7mm and 30 caliber...

I've cast bullets for many years to shoot IHMSA matches. Had great results also. But about 20 years ago I started to make my own jacketed bullets for my .30 calibers and 7mm silhouette guns(also used them in my rifles for reduced distance rifle silhouettes). They shoot great, no problems. But I was ...