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I shot a moose a few years ago with a fairly stiff load (don't recall specs) and a 415 grain bullet I cast using straight wheel weight (45/70). The bullet hit a rib and broke into pieces. The rifle...

Several years ago I bought a 500 grain .500 mold from Mountain Molds. Wonderful bullet, great mold. I have been bitten by the .458 SOCOM bug and am wondering if anyone has gotten a Mountain Mold for...

The only reason I wish to remove it is to see if I could single point the threads on a brake I fabricat myself with a different pattern of gas ports.
Then there would be the torque to get right. I'm...

I gave up being careful and just went ahead and applied the modification I was thinking about. It's based on geometry. The new angle of the side slots will now theoretically 'bounce' leading and lube...

OK, if the photo comes through you'll see what I did to the muzzle brake. I shot a total of 15 rounds of the load already mentioned.
There were no bits of lube on my glasses lenses this time. I did...

PS: The idea that some leading is pushed out by the next round makes a lot of sense and helps explain some of what's going on! More anxious than ever now to see if my little modification will help....

Just a quick note to remind those who have an interest in this thread. We are dealing with 2 identical revolvers. Both are 7.5 Performance Centers. One is pretty early with a serial number of 290,...

Anything is a possibility. But I have always been real careful to not "Bogart" the cylinders of any of my double action revolvers - I surely can see however, that with a cylinder full of cartridges...

70 grains in back of a .490 ball is a nice load. Would like to know how well that 1:28 works at 100 yards though.
I had a T/C Hawken just about 37 - 40 years back - had that stupid micro grooving...

Photo is of a .58 coach gun (rifle) I built for a fellow about 5 years ago. Had all of a 20" or so barrel! Shot both round balls and the original minies very well. The barrel was rifled by Bobby Ryle...

I discovered long ago that you can make two rifle barrels out of the same bar, using the same deep hole drill and the same reamer and rifling head and they may both prefer different size ball and...

Just to add to the chatter; in 1974 I was working at Green River Rifle Works in Roosevelt Utah. Several of my friends were working out at the Green River Powder mill loading a truck with a just...

Checked my sized bullets - they are round.
Got word back from S&W and all they offered was to have me send in the gun for inspection which I surmize will result in nothing being found.
All I want...

Anyone know how to go about removing the muzzle brake on a Smith and Wesson 500 Performance Center.
I'm having fits with it spitting lube and power bits back in my face. The stuff that don't get...

Does anyone know how to simply remove the muzzle break / compensator? I have some ideas but this is one project I wouldn't really care to screw up. I have a lathe and do lots of traditional muzzle...

It's mostly lube - - -
Just came in from the range. Took my glasses off to clean them and noted that the left lense had specs all over it - none on the right. Got some magnifiers out and found...

I'm sure it's both lead and powder. I would not doubt also that it may be dirt and other 'stuff' that gets into the lube when handling the bullets both before and after they are sized and lubed. I'll...

First; NO leading at all. I'm using a 500 grain truncated design I had made by Dan and Mountain Molds and size them .501 which is exactly groove to groove size. Also had Alpha Precision hone the...

Both my friend and I have 7.5" barreled 500 S&W Performance Centers. ALL cast bullits occasionally - and painfully spit lead bits back at us. Safety glasses with big lenses are a must! But even then...

As a matter of fact two of the cylinders did have some lube build up. Also, both LilGun and H110 burn pretty dirty.
Thanks for that bit of wisdom - another lesson learned.
Thanks for the web...

5 hole group,
How did you go about opening up your cylinder throats? My 500 Performance Center has a .501 groove to groove bore but only .500 throats.
I used pure lead .520 round balls to slug the...

I used to use Snow Seal around the pan. Didn't seem to make all that much difference.
Again; out in the field is a whole different ball game than in the "lab" ( or kitchen with a bucket of water!) -...

I voted Winchester, but my rifle is the Browning remanufacture of the Winchester M-71. I understand that it was first patented by Browning - so I could have voted either way I guess.
This is...

Actually, no. Jean and loved the folks in Cut Bank - the geography was something else but the people made up for it. Was pastoring there and got what on the face of it looked like a "great...

PS.
The "Lab Tests" were interesting and well done.
I do have to wonder however how things would change - if at all - on a normally loaded rifle or smooth bore with a 50 to 100 grain charges behind...