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Stevespages-Malware

Stevespages may harm your computer. My anti-virus program blocked a virus or something each time i went to the data page 2 days ago. I will no longer go there. I suggest you scan your computer for Malware, if you been there.
 
My Anti-Virus blocked the site last week for a few days, then it worked fine. Today it is blocked by Google Chrome sighting Malware.
 
Most of you fellers are talking about reloading data, but I have only used data from my reloading manuals (or checked other data against the manuals' data) for 30 years. But, there is waaaaaay more info available on Steve's site than load data, which makes the site valuable to me. Ballistics data, catalogs, cartridge drawings, software down loads, and bullet data (and some I prolly missed). I spent a lot of time on "table 3" at Steve's site just reading history of firearms manufacturers, info on reloading components (primers, brass, powders, bullets). Kinda like an electronic encyclopedia of firearms/reloading stuff...
 
I picked up a malware virus off of his pages a couple of months ago. It took Nortons techs 4 hours to find it and fix it. I don't know why Nortons didn't catch it to begin with. But I haven't been back to his site since.
 
It's a shame to hear about all of this. Steve provided data that you just won't find unless you own every load manual ever printed. For instance, Hodgdon doesn't recommend the use of WST in 9mm while providing data for the even faster burning Clay's with only about a .3 gr. charge range. You will find WST commonly used by IPSC shooters at benos forum, most often with cast lead bullets. There have been reports of reverse temp sensitivity issues with WST including one from a reloader I trust to be competent. He had a pretty high velocity variation after shooting in mid 50 degree weather, then shooting again when temps were in the mid 60s and leaving his handloads exposed to the sun for over an hour and he used plated bullets in his handloads. I had made up some light recoil loads using the 125 gr. ZERO JHPs with it for my brother who had just bought his first small carry pistol and I tested the loads in my pistols first without any issues. Since then, I have purposely left them exposed to the sun for over an hour with temps at least in the mid 90s and I have yet to see any problem with velocity variation. What I've concluded from this is that if there is a temp sensitivity issue with WST in 9mm, it's at cooler temps rather than warm or hot ambient temps. If it hadn't been for Steve's pages, I would never have found data for jacketed bullets.

There is another issue with powders like Silhouette that the reloading manuals don't all cover. Silhouette is the same exact powder that was formerly sold by Winchester as WAP. While current load manuals might lack Silhouette data, there was an abundance of WAP data at Steve's pages. If in doubt, call or email Ramshot and they'll confirm that no chemistry change has occurred between WAP and the current Silhouette. Winchester screwed the pooch when they discontinued it after only distributing it for a very few years and if you check with guys that load and shoot 9mm Major in IPSC, Silhouette, 3N37 and HS-6 are probably the 3 most commonly used. I'm certainly not recommending that you attempt any 9mm handload even close to 9mm Major, but the usage of these powders speaks well for their pressure stability. It's also one of the best powders for .40 S&W and works very well for me in high velocity JHP defense loads in .45 ACP.

I've had several conversations with Steve over the last 10 years and there are very few that know their stuff any better than he does. I always found him very helpful and not confrontational. Not even when I addressed issues with his burn rate chart where WAP and Silhouette were placed very differently while being the same powder. When I experiment and just can't find data for a powder I want to use, well, that's why Steve's pages is bookmarked in my browser. ;)
 
Well as it turns out AVG caught "JS/Exploit" and removed it from Firefox cache. So there is an issue there. Only place I went to yesterday with Firefox, hope he corrects this. Can't say I utilize his reloading info but the archive of manuals has saved me more than once.
 
Realizing that this thread is old....

Steve had hackers from time to time that would get in and plant malicious code.
Since his website was a couple thousand pages and just shy of 30 GIGS of info,
it was much easier to take it down and just upload a clean backup. Of course,
30 GB is A LOT to upload so once in a while, it would be down for the two days
it took to get everything back on.

Now... Steve passed away Jan 13th, 2015 of heart failure, while at home. The domain registration expired and it was down for several weeks when I found out. I spent 4 days
calling him and got no reply. I called the Valley County Mt. sheriffs office and they told
me he had passed. The registrar allowed me to pay the registration fee and get the site back up. Then it was a month of obtaining certified copies of his death cert, notarized copies of "non-compete" forms etc (in case a family member said they wanted it), certified mail going back and forth to Canada where the host company is. Finally I got the site under my name and was able to ensure that it didn't just die. To lose the website would be a shame just because of all the data collected there.

Anyway, it's back to stay and should be bug free. In fact, some of the statements about
infection were what drew me to this old thread. All should be clean there now. If anyone spots something nasty, please let me know via my email address which is posted on most every page there. There are a "few" pages I have not yet had time to edit.

Changes to StevesPages. Steve was a lonely old guy, living by himself for years and the site, his truck, his video and music collection was all he had. And he had all that on the website. I have un-linked all the stuff about his truck and "150 Christmas favorites by Karen Carpenter" as it didn't really fit the genre of the site. As far as the layout goes, I am leaving that as is. I took on this project in memoriam. If I change much of the design, it'll reflect me, not Steve, and that is not my intention. I consider myself more of a custodian than the owner. The only "change" is the addition of my knives page. Steve used to sell knives there, but it was ones he'd order. Mine are all knives that I have made with the exception of "some" of the Damascus steel I may order from respected Damascus makers because they have a pattern I like.

I have also been working on adding new firearms manuals. People email me new ones all the time for addition to the site. I must admit, I am about 40 manuals behind on getting them posted on the site. I am addressing this constantly.

That's all. Just wanted to update this thread for the record.

Cheers and I hope everyone is well!

Chris
 
I commend you on undertaking this project. The information you bring from what was behind the site is fascinating to me. I stumbled across his pages awhile back when looking for info I couldn't find anywhere else.
 
Thanks Tim! For me also, the site was usually my first check when looking for info. Most everything was "right there". It's one reason i just could not see the site go away!
That, and that Steve had helped me many times when I first started reloading. I was new and had no local mentor. I could always get a hold of Steve and he'd put me on the right track!
 
Now... Steve passed away Jan 13th, 2015 of heart failure, while at home. The domain registration expired and it was down for several weeks when I found out. I spent 4 days
calling him and got no reply.
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Thank you for the news, and for taking the website on.
 
Even though Steve was cranky, he was an encyclopedia of knowledge. The only problem that I know he had other than his health issues is that he could not tolerate stupid.....and there is a hell of a lot of it out there.
 
He was a retired nurse with a small pension from the military and moved into gov housing at that abandoned airport. It would be like living in a ghost town an hour from the nearest grocery store.
10 or 15 years ago when I first saw that site, he had an instrumental version of the song House of the Rising Sun playing. He was posting on the accurate reloading forum 10 or 12 years ago. That forum is now a ghost town.


1) He had a story about getting a heart attack while shooting a deer with a 357 mag handgun.

2) He had a story about getting his hunting licence pulled in MT.

I knew from the above two that he was type A and would not last long.

One had to respect the sheer size of his website.
 
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