Skills are the only tradable commodity that cannot be stolen from you, bar slavery. Medical and healing skills will likely be king right from the onset, repair and maker skills high on the list too...
Type: Posts; User: GrayTech
Forum: Our Town
Skills are the only tradable commodity that cannot be stolen from you, bar slavery. Medical and healing skills will likely be king right from the onset, repair and maker skills high on the list too...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The armadillos in your area drive around?!?
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Vitamin c is ascorbic acid not citric acid. It won't have the surface treatment effect that citric acid does.
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Forum: Our Town
Have you considered an angle grinder and wood carving disc's. Very fast at rough shaping. Can do some reasonably fine shaping too.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
A tight felt wad with diamond grinding / polishing paste works for small adjustments. It's a slow process. Be conservative with grit size or polishing it smooth again will take a very long time.
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Forum: Completed Deals
I have some of the correct brass stock just under 1". Will happily sell you a section as soon as I get back from my climb in the himalayas....
Forum: Our Town
Fight fire with fire, love it.
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
What rifle/gun and for what purpose?
You need to have a target to aim for.
Cast will not damage a barrel, and leading can be cleaned if it happens.
Clean out the copper from the barrel before...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Makes me think opening up the pocket in the adapter by a thou or two would make newer primers drop out with the same ease.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
If that ever happens again you can toss it in the blender, bones and all.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
They are great. Called to get a 270win front piece for my headspace guage. Bought it used and it had the wrong 306 front end in the box. They sent an almost complete set of parts to me in canada and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Separate some of your mix, maybe 5lb, and add lino type in small increments and test and see if you can get what you want. Then you have a baseline to work from.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Lead and tin are soluble in each other, they mix themselves once molten.
Adding other metals like arsenic, antimony or copper that are not already alloyed gets trickier.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Blanket statements are not all that useful. It all depends what we are trying to do, how much time and effort we are willing to expend, and whether we want satisfactory or near perfect performance in...
3 grams seems like a whole lot of powder. Never seen or used that powder before.
Flush cutter works well, it's for cutting electronic components flush with pc board.
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
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Forum: Rimfire Area
Doesn't matter that the price drops back to whatever it was if the value of a dollar is reduced to ½, ⅓, or even a ¼ of what it was. Our governments are spending us into bancruptcy, and dismantling...
You might try polishing the inside of the sizing die. I had one that had similar issue but was fine after a polish. Surfaces may look smooth but at microscopic level could be too rough. Very fine...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Nearly choked on my dinner laughing at that one. Wasn't immediately obvious you were referring to a stock as the thread opened on that post. [emoji1787]
Forum: Gas Checks
Yes there is. There are several designs you can find on the net. Not sure about availability though, tried searchng "gas check maker"?
I'm lucky enough to have the machines to make my own.
3031 is one recommended for 30 06 and 270win. Just work your way up from the low end until they group.
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 |