Thanks to all with your suggestions. Fulton Armory looks great, but their website specifically makes an exception for doing barrels/actions from Washington customers. I'm going to call them for...
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Forum: Military Rifles
Thanks to all with your suggestions. Fulton Armory looks great, but their website specifically makes an exception for doing barrels/actions from Washington customers. I'm going to call them for...
Forum: Military Rifles
My Carbine barrel needs replacing; the rifling has been removed. I need a source for a replacement barrel, and a smith to do the work. Western Washington is a gun smith desert.
Thank you gentlemen, this is exactly what I was looking for.
[I] got into my seventies and discovered I can no longer see the bull well at 100 yards and past. I know some shooters use a small attachment to their eyeglass lens that allows a good sight picture....
Forum: Cast Boolits
I rediscovered about 300 of these in my garage. They are .44-40, 225 grain. I'd like to shoot them in my Win 66, 73 and Schofield repros. I'd like a load tailored to this bullet weight, using one of...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thanks for your input. I have my own Star, so I know they are closely similar. I was hoping someone knew more about when and where they were made. You never see or hear about them. I'm curious about...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have one of these, picked up years ago with a lot of other casting equipment. It is identical to a Star, but has no markings. There may have once been a decal that identified it. I've never tried...
Forum: Military Rifles
I had a straight military Martini in .303 about 30 years ago. I wasn't reloading rifle then, so I shot modern .303 ball in it. I was just savvy enough though, to know modern ball was probably not a...
Wow, thank you. I went to their site, they have what I want. The kicker is that shipping for four screws costs more than the screws. Oh, well.
I've got a 220, german made. Years ago at a gun show,, I got a set of the Nilli grips, beautiful walnut, with a fine checkering/stippling on the panels. They didn't come with screws, and the factory...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My dad was a linotype machinist at a large daily paper, and while attending school, I worked the linotype pot every day, melting the previous days type, pouring 250 22 lb pigs, and distributing the...
Even older than I thought; thanks for the interesting information.
The box does say it is a division of Olin Industries. The lot# inside the end flap says "A68 8".
I was given this; it had seven live rounds only. The box is cardboard, worn but intact, except for one end flap. The inside container box is intact. Colors are red and yellow; The top and bottom are...
A S&W M-36, 2" with the flat latch that makes it a late 50's-early 60's piece. my neighbor needed cash since his business is sucking wind in this pandemic. I needed another J-frame like a moose needs...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I use the Little Dandy system exclusively for pistol. I want to load a quantity of .45 acp with 230 gr lead bullets, using CFE. RCBS, as best as i can tell, has never updated their rotor charge table...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Pressman, I'll do that. Thanks for the good advice.
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Thank you for your reply, it was very helpful.
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Years ago, i started accumulating die sets and handles as I found them at gun shows, thinking it would be fun to branch off into a new area of reloading. I was probably right too, but I didn't do...
I bought some used ones at a very good price, but without instructions. The seller included two thin, filmy plastic inserts that fit inside the grips. He said they were intended to protect the twin...
I had a very nice Victory, .380, with "Osterreich Politzei" post war markings. I handload, but I could never get that thing to shoot to point-of-aim, trying all sorts of cast .357 bullets and...
A stainless, Colt Government 1911 in 9mm. My last gun purchase in Washington, done just before our latest, most onerous piece of anti-gun legislation, ram-rodded through by techi zillionaire funding...
Thanks to all for your insights and hard won wisdom. Burnt Fingers, your comment is especially acute. I had never heard of Checkmate before this; I'll have to follow up.
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 |