Comments thread: March 2015 Photo contest

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Comments and Q's about the submission photos go here.

[Idaho Mule]

ammo, that is a really COOL picture!!! Thanks for sharing it. JW

[geargnasher]

I was going to take a pic of my M1A and loads...but after seeing Ammohead's photo I surrender! Very nice.

Gear

[ammohead]

Thank you John and Gear. No, I did not take the Desert Big Horn with the M1A. I used a 257 Robts Ackley Imp and a 100 gr Barnes TSX. One of the best reasons to live in Nevada. We have more big horn sheep than any state in the lower 48. And 3 species, Desert or Nelson, California and Rocky Mountain not to mention Mountain Goat. Good luck trying to draw one of those.

[Idaho Mule]

Bruce, I am not 100% sure about the true wording/"descriptions" here but bear with me. Idaho boasts 2 different sheep, the Rocky Mt. and Desert Bighorns. Idaho calls the ones North of the Salmon River Rocky Mt. Bighorns and what lies to the South as Desert/California Bighorn. I don't have regs right here with me so if I am wrong (quite possible) hopefully some more Idaho guys will hop in and line me out. NCBS in June ask me about my sheep hunting, I can't talk about it here on open forum, but it was an interesting adventure. Regardless of all that, that is still a really cool looking picture, very tastefull. JW

[SteveM]

Ammohead, I love that table. I'd love to see a better picture of the top of it

[AZ-JIM]

1911KY, what grips are on the pistol on the left in your submission,http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?271119-March-2015-Photo-Submission-Topic-Semi-auto-cast-boolit-shooters&p=3167505&viewfull=1#post3167505

Could you post a pic, side view please?
Thanks

az-jim

[AZ-JIM]

Sorry, duplicate post some how

az-jim

[1911KY]

1911KY, what grips are on the pistol on the left in your submission,http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?271119-March-2015-Photo-Submission-Topic-Semi-auto-cast-boolit-shooters&p=3167505&viewfull=1#post3167505

Could you post a pic, side view please?
Thanks

az-jim


They are VZ grips that are made specifically for the Dan Wesson ECO. I believe the Elite Tactical Carry (ETC) in Zebra are the same thing, just with a different checkering pattern.

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/DSC_0024_zps3b6e4195.jpg

https://vzgrips.com/gun-grips/1911/elite-tactical-carry/elite-tactical-carry/etc-zebra-g10

[AZ-JIM]

Looks good, I like the contrast. Thanks for posting the pic.

az-jim

[1911KY]

Your welcome.

I recently switched to these Honduran Burl wood grips:

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/DSC_0001_zps2f570d7d.jpg

[AZ-JIM]

Your welcome.

I recently switched to these Honduran Burl wood grips:

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/DSC_0001_zps2f570d7d.jpg

Now that is sexy

az-jim

[1911KY]

I like those grips so much that I went ahead and put new ones on all of my Dan Wesson's.

Black and White Ebony wood

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/fd57fee2-7542-4e37-b910-9fca51f0557a_zpsuphrnbgq.jpg

Cocobolo wood
http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p628/jamesearnett/38d83ad7-8c59-42d6-9a18-f4e8aed6f7a6_zpshfgz7857.jpg

[ammohead]

Nowherefound:

Welcome to the forum. Nice looking garands. But if you have been lurking here 2 years you must know that we want details. Boolit, mould, alloy, powder charge etc. Again welcome.

[Nowherefound]

Sorry, lurking mostly on load data and such. I'll pay better attention to where I am posting in the future. The testing for this weekend will be...
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/centurioncs/Mobile%20Uploads/FA50AE04-AB6B-455C-B4AB-B1FFD693F662_zpsvn99kuvl.jpg (http://s1350.photobucket.com/user/centurioncs/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FA50AE04-AB6B-455C-B4AB-B1FFD693F662_zpsvn99kuvl.jpg.html)
Once fired HXP brass
Lyman 311413 (.311) w/ hornady gas check and BAC lube made from #2 alloy
13 grains of Red Dot with a CCI #200 primer
Hopefully it will make a nice 100 yard plinker with the added benefit of not having to hunt brass flung all over the range.

[ammohead]

beautiful loads. We are worse than women with recipes on facebook when it comes to sharing load data here. We all want to know what you are using.

[Nowherefound]

Thanks, Funny thing is I don't tumble my brass so most of it has a nice dull finish from washing (water, vinegar, dawn, and a little salt) but for what I do trim I use the Lee trimmer. While the thing is chucked in a drill I use one of those green scotch brite pads and they turn out pretty shiny. First did it just because the HXP was so grimy, turns out I like the results.

[Idaho Mule]

Nowherefound, looks really good there. Welcome to the forum, you will fit right in. JW

[pappy4]

134657 First try at casting. 175grn lee mold. 20 bhn with lee hardness tester.

[ammohead]

Some fine looking boolits there pappy! A very good first effort.

[pappy4]

Thanks. The first ones out of the mold were like the one on the left. ( mold way to hot )
Took a long time for sprue to cool. I wanted to make sure the mold was hot enough. ​No worries there. :shock:
But after I cooled the mold, they were fine.

[daniel lawecki]

Nice job those look good nice and sharp.

[avogunner]

134875

Garand food.......

[ncbearman]

134875

Garand food.......

8 and a ping- love it. Which mould is that?

[avogunner]

Those in that pic are Lee 200gr that I got from a member here on a boolit swap. They worked just fine but I settled on the 311299 for regular use.

[Sgt Petro]

If I had a vote it would go to Texassako. I'm impressed by the bullet design and the fact he had the patience to load more than 10 of those tiny 25acp rounds!

[texassako]

If I had a vote it would go to Texassako. I'm impressed by the bullet design and the fact he had the patience to load more than 10 of those tiny 25acp rounds!

Those were my trial run with my new Lee 4 hole turret using the auto index. Less handling of those little bitty cases. I was loading 50 at a with a loading block and single stage previously, and that was getting old since I shoot a couple hundred rounds of them in a session. It has been my .22 pistol replacement the last few years

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

gatorshooter wins with all the soldiers lined up

http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu127/JonB_in_Glencoe/Castboolits%20Castpic%20of%20the%20month/March%202015%20Semiauto%20cast%20boolit%20shooters _zpscldozww1.jpg (http://s640.photobucket.com/user/JonB_in_Glencoe/media/Castboolits%20Castpic%20of%20the%20month/March%202015%20Semiauto%20cast%20boolit%20shooters _zpscldozww1.jpg.html)

[62chevy]

Congrats to gatorshooter !!!

[RED333]

Good job gatorshooter

[ammohead]

Congratulations Gatorshooter, nice pic.

[juan916]

Nice looking pistols

[gatorshooter]

Thanks, didnt think I had a chance, I liked all the other pics. My kid broke my tablet, just got it back, so catching up on the forums. I found some empty clips so got more casting to do. Two really satisfying sounds.. my gong target being hit 8 times and that ping...