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To the OP: you stated that your front sight tends to get lost in the bullseye? If so, I assume you're trying to hold for the center? Have you tried a good old simple 6 o'clock hold at the bottom of...

I've been messing with Krags since I was 16, 55 years ago. Bought my first one, a righteous 1896 Carbine for the grand sum of $40 that year. Not a year has gone by since then that I haven't had at...

I wouldn't mind seeing a bit of that rifle, Vall. What cartridge case do you use? A nail gun blank behind the breech seated bullet?

I guess you wouldn't enjoy one of my favorite pastimes - breech seating .22 bullets in a .22LR chamber and pushing them with pre-primed empty .22LR cases filled with a pinch of Bullseye!
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I automatically think in terms of flexibility of a cartridge. Everything I own gets shot with a far higher percentage of reduced loads than with full tilt stuff - everything from Hornets to .30-06's...

Surely he jests. Great flexibility to be had, from mild to wild with one gun, ie: a .22-250.

Would one drive his Ferrari at 140mph everywhere he went simply because it's capable of super speeds?...

Ignore uscra112's advice about Stevens 44's at your peril.

I have a 44 chambered for .22WCF and even though a .22 Hornet round will chamber and fire I refuse to do so. I feed it soft 45 and 40...

Hornady makes a hydraulic case forming die. Not particularly cheap but it works a treat for making my K-Hornet brass. Put a Hornet case in the die and whack the piston with a lead hammer and the...

Since we're on the subject of small (but serious) cannons:

Small one I built a couple years ago. Bronze, 13" including cascabel, .625 bore. Ton of fun using it to snipe crab buoys in the...

Looking good! Small cannons rock. Bore diameter?

I too have utilized old Lyman/Ideal moulds which often drop oversize bullets. My .22WCF has a somewhat tight throat of a fat .225". An old Ideal PB mould, #225230 drops a 1/20 alloy bullet at .226...

Having owned around a dozen Martinis in different flavors over the years, the three I have now are the ones that "stuck to the wall": BSA 12 in absolutely mint condition, BSA International MkI (the...

For all my .32 loading, including .32-20's, I automatically skip the expander dies that are in my die sets and go straight to the RCBS neck expander die with its simple straight section on the...

No point in slugging the bore. Do a chamber casting to include an inch of bore. It'll tell you all you need to know - primarily throat diameter which indicates bullet diameter, and you can mic the...

Cheap faux finishes have abounded on el-cheapo hardware store-grade guns since forever. No telling what H&R used at any given time in the 60's-70's. I'll never forget when, as a kid on a mission to...

Well, I guess I know what I'll be doing in my lathe tomorrow!

Made a couple miniature cannons so far:

https://i.imgur.com/Hl4e7sfl.jpg
14" barrel, .625" bore, high-tensile bronze, 1 5/8"...

1935-vintage Colt Officer's Model .22. Minty condition and came with a Colt factory letter stating the date, etc., and who the consignee was (Bekeart, in San Francisco) and the buyer (a Captain Frank...

Indeed, and it's that little bit of homework required on the part of cast bullet shooters that most newbies/neophytes/lazies disregard (present company excluded of course!), and then wail about poor...

Therein lies the best suggestion, IMO. If I could afford a couple thousand bucks to prompt them to make a run of 10K .32-20 cases I would, and sell the 9500 I don't need/want at cost to make it...

I'm amused to finally meet someone who actually owns one of these things and wants to shoot it! I've seen them languish on the discount racks in gunshops for years because nobody wanted such a short...

If your 311284 bullet has a bore riding nose section too small in diameter to resist the rifling, I submit that you need a different mold. You should get definite imprints of the rifling on the nose....

.314 mold all day long. My favorite .32-20 mold is #311-105T from Accurate. I told Tom I'd be using 1:20 tin:lead and that's exactly the diameter the mold drops. Works a treat in my 1922 Colt Army...

If you wanted to stir up a lot of ill feelings with a question like that you sure succeeded!!

The clips aren't hard to make. Use "springy" steel sheet metal and bend around a mandrel. Use your imagination and experiment to get the right radius and enough springiness to grip the barrel....

Nah. In my breech seated single shot bench guns I start a virgin case oriented via a witness mark on the barrel tenon and a randomly located notch on the case rim, and put it there for every...