I am privileged to own a no-dash Model 52. It is a joy to load and shoot. My mould is the one designed and marketed by Hensley & Gibbs specifically for this pistol -- their #527, listed as a ".38...
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I am privileged to own a no-dash Model 52. It is a joy to load and shoot. My mould is the one designed and marketed by Hensley & Gibbs specifically for this pistol -- their #527, listed as a ".38...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I "started" my sons handgun shooting with a Savage .22 Long Rifle Single Shot Blue, 4” Barrel “Revolver” (S/n 50xxx), giving them ONLY .22 short ammo. Typical me, the barrel periodically had a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just a suggestion which has worked well for me -- in that I tell medics I fish a lot -- true -- and lead sinkers may not be sold/purchased in my state, so I need cast my own -- also true. Further,...
Forum: Rimfire Area
elmacgyver0, you do make a good point re not needing to spend a fortune. I was privileged to be invited to a rabbit hunt a few years back -- mid 1970s -- and reckoned I needed a scope for my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Admittedly lead paint chips do not contribute to a healthy diet -- I recall a Forensic Files t.v. episode where a toddler --- playing on the porch -- accidentally ingested enough to kill her! Peeling...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I have several scoped .22 rifles, and pretty much my favourite is the old 3-9x Weaver .22 "Classic" Rimfire scope. Note that Weaver had a "rim-fire line", too, which was priced considerably lower...
Forum: Military Rifles
I have no idea ;) re "How many of you guys..." -- BUT I ALWAYS have brass length as my number 1 priority! Waaaay back -- maybe 40 years ago -- I got my first M1 Carbine and had miss and hit firing...
Forum: Special Projects
MY EXPERIENCE: Five or six years ago I bought one of their slingshots (Awesome product!); the next year, when I reckoned I should have/keep another a camp, I bought a second -- as well as some of...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You are, indeed, both a master craftsman and artist! If not presently, I'm SURE you can earn a substantial (2nd?) income from making and selling similar!!! (Put me on your waiting list :)). My only...
Forum: Our Town
"Thanks for getting me 'worried'" re this! :) "They" keep changing the rules/laws -- and my wife and I are both OK for ten more months -- and I still have NO idea HOW to renew. Other than the FACT...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I, too, have/love the 10mm Auto calibre, as a btw :). Germaine to your question, my experience many different brands of brass are -- albeit produced to SAAMI standards -- a tad different --...
A good friend, now :( deceased, had a couple of dozen handguns in several different calibres. Over the years he traded/sold off all except his 1911 .45 and Model 41 S&W .22 for competition --...
Not of the "group" ;) ;) ;) -- but just "me" -- the Savage Striker is , imho, kind of a rare duck -- along with, say, Ithaca's "X-Caliber" handguns. If I recall not that many were produced between...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
While your choices (Starrett, Greendield, etc.) are GREAT ones -- my dad -- a tool and die maker -- professed his favourites being tools made by Brown & Sharpe. I have a few -- micrometers,...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Happy vis your upcoming gift! To your question, I have been of the thought that if one adds water -- even with the Dawn and d/w rinse aid -- to dirt -- one would get, at most, sudsy mud. When the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
This post says it all! Its ONLY about money - money - money! A few years back the associate in a True-Value hardware store brought two IDENTICAL, except their painted colour, vices to my attention....
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I recently purchased a 'scope, not for firearms, but instead for the more noble purpose of my checking cylinders in two older Stihl chainsaws I have -- notably an MS261 Pro which shows compression...
I know I have a few firearm locks, and by coincidental with my looking "where in God's green earth?" I may have put them, I saw TNsailorman had listed three in S&S, just for the cost of postage. ...
Yupper -- I get great success, too, as I had earlier noted, in my .22-250 Striker (Model 516FSAK). "Funny thing" is with the muzzle brake on it is a zillion times louder -- but my groups average a...
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
"Been there/done that" -- I bought a gorgeous (to my eyes) set of Stag grips from a fellow at club -- but as pretty as they are, they beat up the hand pretty well! I then got a set off eBay;...
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Joe -- You piqued my interest! I have a Ruger with grips, perhaps imho "prittyer", but they are not a great fit to my hand :(. The challenge I had getting them -- me probably not being the...
If nothing else, reloading dies, brass, bullet moulds, etc., etc., etc. are fairly readily available for the 10mm Auto; this calibre can easily be loaded to charges more than minimally required for...
Bion, the mould I bought and used for my XP-100 is the Lyman 225-415 -- a 55 grain mould, gas checked , complemented with their #415 top punch. I have a Savage Striker pistol in .22-250 and this...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
In Gouverneur, New York -- not too distant from me -- St. Joseph's had a lead mine, and my next door neighbor worked there as a carpenter. That's all I knew/know about the mine, other than he...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |