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Managing recoil is not a problem with a 6mm rifle, but once you move beyond .30 calibre it starts to become an issue. The funny thing is you never feel the recoil when you are hunting,  but you certainly feel it when you are practising. Remembering Newton’s Laws of Motion, if the bullet leaves the…

Once you have the cases, you need a die set. Fortunately, the re-introduction of factory ammunition fuelled interest in handloading for this cartridge, and die manufacturers responded accordingly. RCBS make them, as does Redding. I got my first die set for the .470NE from CH Tool & Die in Mt Vernon, Ohio. They are a…

So maybe you have an entire basement for your reloading. Or perhaps just a corner of the kitchen table. Most of us wind up with some (semi-)permanent place for all our loading gear, even if just to have somewhere to mount a decent press. Having started with the kitchen table route, I now have a…

The perils of the beginner blogger. I added a few plug-ins to this WordPress site, then found (by chance) that the “Contact me” page acted as if it had sent an email to me, but did not actually do it. GoDadddy (who host the blog) spent a lot of time with me to work out…

What better way to start the Purple Frog Ammo blog than with the 470 Nitro Express, an iconic big-bore cartridge? And the starting point of any cartridge is the case. In the past, finding .470NE cases was no easy matter. You were probably left trying to hunt down some Kynoch cases from the 1960s. Now you have a lot…