That may be a old Ideal brand mold.
Universally: "W" usually means 'Wadcutter'.
Type: Posts; User: Winger Ed.
Forum: Casting Equipment
That may be a old Ideal brand mold.
Universally: "W" usually means 'Wadcutter'.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Cool.
I was thinking about that concept and figured if I made one, it would look like a big hammer.
The 2' board would have 2 - 6" pieces on one end with the hole not going quite all the way...
Forum: Cast Boolits
For cast anything going up to the mid-teens for velocity, 1/2 pure Lead and 1/2 wheel weights
is one of the old school, all time favorite recipes.
For 1,000-ish fps speeds or a little over, I...
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
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Posting pictures can be a little tricky at first.
They have to be in a format the site supports, and there is a size limitation.
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Forum: Swappin & Sellin
He's been busted and banned.
But keep your guard up. That trick is in fashion with scammer now days.
The Staff can usually catch them with the hour, but sometimes it's still enough time for them...
Forum: Casting Equipment
That's kind of what I was thinking, but my guess was its possessed by an evil spirit and must be punished.
Forum: Our Town
Click the messages you want to get rid of, then near the bottom is a box
that says 'selected messages'.
click that and a list will drop down. On the list is a place for 'delete'.
Click it, and...
Forum: Special Projects
I always put my vice on the end/corner.
So far, I've always been happy with it there.
Forum: Our Town
Cool. Sounds like you're on the mend.
Let us know if all this fancy, new age medical treatments don't work out.
Then we can try a more traditional approach.
We can all do some chants while...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Hang a few around all your windows and doors.
You'll see your inventory better for when it gets low.
Plus it'll keep the vampires out.
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Buyers be careful.
Another scammer was just caught & banned within 5 minutes of joining while attacking this thread.
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Stay alert folks:
Scammers will often hit the ground running.
That one was caught & banned within 30 minutes of joining, but still had time to get into mischief.
Forum: Casting Equipment
+1 on JB Weld.
Rumor has it that stuff is so good, you could make a boat trailer out of it.
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Anybody that works on Aluminum engines can probably do it for ya.
Fixing a stripped out spark plug hole with a heli-coil is a pretty common project for them.
Forum: Our Town
I've seen it several times- People have a business rocking along to one degree or another where if they didn't,
they couldn't hold a job at the local gas station.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I'd install & stuff it with something first without epoxy to be sure ya like it.
Of the couple I've seen, they weren't sealed/glued in permanently anyway.
All ya need to do is keep it from moving...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Have ya called Hornady? Their customer service has always been real good to me.
They should still be available. Or, just get a regular nut from the hardware store.
Forum: Our Town
I used to troll people when they tried to relate their pay to a high level executive's.
The way a business is structured, they aren't exactly comparable.
It's more about who is worth more to the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
It might make a pretty good showing by casting with Zinc.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I've learned that if you say a couple 'Hail Marys' and a 'Anna-godda-devida', all sins will be forgiven.:bigsmyl2:
I'll move this thread over to single shot guns.
If ya want it back here,,, let...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
We have a big barrel for brass at our range about 2 feet deep in spent cases.
However; there are so many tobacco chewers, I pretend it's not there.
Forum: Cast Boolits
That's how I do it.
Run the pot up until I get some frosting,
then ease the heat off until there is just a hint of it unless I slow down my fill/drop rate.
In years past I'd accumulated several...
Forum: Special Projects
Good luck with that project!
I like the spent primer catcher on my Hornady progressive, but other presses I use are beyond frustrating.
I ended up just letting them drop into a 5 gal. bucket, or...
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 |