I know this is resurrecting an old post but I've actually been doing some research on this one. Buck N ball didn't have a standard size, depending on where you were. For instance, Robert Rogers and...
Type: Posts; User: David LaPell
Forum: Special Projects
I know this is resurrecting an old post but I've actually been doing some research on this one. Buck N ball didn't have a standard size, depending on where you were. For instance, Robert Rogers and...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I know this subject has been debated on end, but I have to ask because I want to actually know if someone has done it and what their results are. I want to know if you can cast round balls for a...
Yep, did that, and it was pretty clean. I took the whole gun apart, checked everything out, it all seemed very clean and the firing pin didn't seem to be held up by anything.
I have a Chiappa Sharps carbine in .50-70 Government. My loads are 450 grain cast bullets, 12.0 grains of Unique. I've shot the gun before, never had any issues so far but today I was having problems...
Forum: Military Rifles
I saw one not that long ago in a local gun shop. The stock was cut on the front end, the buttplate gone and the stock cracked on the back end. The gun was heavily pitted, the barrel more or less...
Forum: Military Rifles
I got the duffel cut 1944 dot K98 to the range this morning. I tried out 10 rounds of Federal 170 grain ammo and 5 rounds of Yugoslavian 196 grain surplus ammo out to 50 yards. The first five rounds...
Forum: Military Rifles
I finally for the Acraglas in this week to finish up my 1944 dot K98. Yesterday morning I took the finished parts as they were ready to go and got the Acrasglas on it. I put three coats of the...
Forum: Military Rifles
About a month or so ago, I happened to find a K98 Mauser at the local gun shop. It was a duffel cut rifle, but whoever brought it back only cut off about 6 inches to before the barrel band. The gun...
Forum: Military Rifles
A gun that early used a walnut stock, later on in the war they switched to a laminated stock. You're also going to want to make sure you get the earlier barrel bands for it, they changed those as...
Forum: Military Rifles
I killed my first deer in 1999 with a Winchester Model 54 bolt action in .30-30. The Model 54 was the predecessor of the Model 70 and in some ways as nice or better and one of the rarer variants of...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I tried contacting Larry Willis several times to ask a couple questions on his collet die, still waiting for a response. For now I think I will try out a couple boxes of factory ammo and go from...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
The only problem with is that I read in a couple different reloading manuals that because the .300 H & H Mag & .375 H & H don't have that sharp of a shoulder like later magnum rounds, they HAVE to be...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I recently found a Remington 700 Classic in one of those calibers I've long admired, a friend of mine was once big on it for hunting everything from deer on up, and that's the .300 H & H Magnum. I've...
Recently our illustrious legislature has introduced legislation to ban lead ammo for hunting and this time there's a good chance it will pass. Since most of my hunting is will small game, these days...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I am looking for every alternative I can to cartridge guns whether it's shotguns or .22 rifles for hunting, particularly small game since that's what I tend to hunt more than anything else. One of...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
With all of the issues so many are having with .22 LR right now, getting the ammo etc. I decided to try and work out some more kinks with my old CVA .32 Squirrel Rifle. This gun was built as a kit by...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I picked up another oddball recently, a Stevens 101 in .44 Shot shell, which is nothing more than a .44-40 smoothbore. I got some .44 shot capsules and loaded them with #7 1/2 shot, it adds up to...
Forum: Military Rifles
I was apprehensive taking the old custom Commission rifle out to shoot being the fact that the gun is such a nice rifle. But after sitting down, double checking the bore, slugging it for a second...
Forum: Military Rifles
My local gun shop has a really nice Mauser 98 sporterized rifle. It still has all the markings on it, but it was reblued, the barrel looks to me like it was either turned down or replaced, the front...
Forum: Military Rifles
I found another rifle, almost identical to mine except for a couple of things, the caliber is different as well, but you can see how close it is. It also has a different name, again, another Suhl...
Forum: Military Rifles
I am having a heck of time finding this stamping anywhere. I have a copy of The Standard Directory of Proof Marks, it's not in there at all, can't find it online anywhere.
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Forum: Military Rifles
If I recall, both of those safeties do work, and the tension on the hammers is excellent.
Forum: Military Rifles
A couple more of the Jung.
https://i.imgur.com/0Z4JIXy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3sVJv1w.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/N5Yxmf4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0H4Af6X.jpg
Forum: Military Rifles
I sent you a PM with some more info on the Jung. I was in the shop today so I was able to get some more photos, the lighting in the place isn't the best, but you can see the workmanship on the gun is...
Forum: Military Rifles
I really enjoy digging into these things, because I used to work for a German man who taught me a lot about the aspects of that country we don't hear much about, also European hunting in general,...
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 |