Can the cylinder for a Smith 27 be rebored to 359 Max? Or is it too short?
Type: Posts; User: Captain Midnight
Forum: Special Projects
Can the cylinder for a Smith 27 be rebored to 359 Max? Or is it too short?
Forum: Leverguns
Picked up 2 Rossi/357 for the twin grandsons.... Consecutive serial #s... Shootin' 38s so far.... Fun. Captain
Forum: Cast Boolits
Frangible.... Drop a china plate on the ceramic tile floor..... Frangible! You cannot crimp a sintered bullet.... NO CRIMP AT ALL! Download my loading instructions from FrangibleBullets.Com. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Captain Midnight owns and operates FrangibleBullets.Com. A load data sheet for all frangible projectiles is available for download and printing. In my opinion all AMERK once fired brass and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I have a sufficient quantity of WW to use. I wish to alloy to 6.5 7 30 8 & 45/70. There is a foundry near Pgh that sells Sb & Sn. What % mix is best for these bullets.
TNX
Captain
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks guys.... Reading this thread has been a great laugh "Hold my beer for a second, I'm gonna try somethin'' Captain
Forum: Cast Boolits
Need a big pot for casting on a turkey fryer? Use an old empty propane tank. BE SURE IT IS EMPTY! Remove the valve [this is where empty is important]. Fill with water, empty water. Use your 5"...
Forum: Leverguns
Anyone had experience with re-barreling a lever into 38-55?
Sometimes a rifle becomes available that has seen less than perfect care that would lend itself to such action.
I like both 94's and...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
My last post was 5/09... So hello guys. Thanks for still being here as I would "peek in" once in a while.
Buckshot, glad to see that Toby is still on your picture.
12 years ago my son bought the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I sell ammunition.
380 Auto is not possible to keep in stock. The sales of this caliber were always slim, until 6 months ago! I have brass sitting waiting for bullets and primers.
Everything is...
Forum: Group Buy Results
Crooked Creek:
32-20? ...... More info on 30 car. please
Captain
Forum: Group Buy Archives
Check out www.scharch.com as a source. I have bought a lot of boxes and trays from them. Their brass is good too...... Captain
Forum: Classics & Stickies
FrangibleBullets.Com can supply non-toxic primers in SP, LP, LR, SR. No shotgun primers available in non-toxic. They are expensive, $3.10 per hundred $31.00 per thousand plus UPS ground. Email and...
2 1/2 years in...........
Hope you're up to the strain....
Serious coffee drinkin'.....
Feet up just starin'......
Takin' the grandkids shootin' en huntin'....
It's a rough life, but I think...
I sent this 2 days ago.
Captain
I like Lee products and here is what one shooter did to improve his 6'er.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?p=258575#post258575
Merry Christmas to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I look in every so often...... Times are busy..... All slows down Jan.... will cast all sorts of sizes in large groups, load........ sort, tumble & size a bunch of once-fired range brass....... ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Some on you know that I sell non-lead bullets and ammunition. I cast lead. Here in PA the flintloack season is coming up and the Lee REAL bullet is the cat's pajamas in a 66" twist round ball...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I mounted a piece of 4"x12" 1/4" plate of steel on my table where I use my Lyman sizer plus a magnetic engine block heater. I plug in the heater and the heat migrates thru the steel and into the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I need to get molds in 9. 40. & 45. Which seems to be the best all around when used with LTL?
I have FWFL.
The Lee page suggests that the 38 105gr. SWC works well in 9mm. I have a Lee 6 in...
Forum: Our Town
Just a suggestion, FYI.
http://www.glumbert.com/media/carshoot
Captain
Forum: Our Town
The rifle answer is a scout scope. It is not an isue in pistol shooting. For good scout mounts on military rifles with no gunsmithing try http://www.scopemounts.com .................... Captain
Forum: Factory Rifles
Gentlemen:
What would be the Maximun Point Blank Range to sight in a new 17 M2? My son gave me one for my birthday and it is NOW TIME to get it ready for PA ground hogs.
Thanks in advance. Your...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've had good fortune to get 3 nice 7x57's with decent bores at gun shops. 2 are matching numbers on the receiver and bolt. All 3 were under $100 each. I plan to mount a scout scope on the rear...
Forum: Cast Boolits
MT Gianni
I'll consider that advice.
Messy - Stinky - Heavy
Other than that ww's are fun !
Captain
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 |