Maybe I missed it but did Corbin sell the business at some point? The bottom of the site shows two guys as the owners, Pech and Harrington. And they do not have any mega-mite press stuff.
Type: Posts; User: 6mm win lee
Forum: Swaging
Maybe I missed it but did Corbin sell the business at some point? The bottom of the site shows two guys as the owners, Pech and Harrington. And they do not have any mega-mite press stuff.
Forum: Swaging
This project is fifteen years in the making and I am just getting around to it. I about 90 gazillion spent .22 cases all the the way from shorts to WMR. But ninety per cent is long rifle. I have...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Guys, I bought a half ton of Lino pigs from RotoMetals when I was in the moola. Now not in the moola. I was wondering what the "exchange rate" (barter) between lino and pure lead might be. As an...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I have some where North of eleven hundred pounds of Linotype laying around that I had purchased years ago. I figure this is the year I buckle down and start casting. Given my families' genetics I...
Forum: Rimfire Area
"You ever do the annual clean out a 400 hen chicken coop with a pitch fork? "
Done that. Choked on the ammonia for two days.
I like you guys' idea of the Necco wafers. I would only be...
Forum: Cast Boolits
3rdTennCoC
You mention being near Chicago. That's a pretty big place. It is bound to have little Mom and Pop car repair shops, in not too good neighborhoods, that have stacks of old tires on the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Maybe gold is the answer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cquESpirEmU
or silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Mk7w_c3tI
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
There is always dry panning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkw5UotuRbA
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I've had good results with sierra 220 RN bullets and IMR 4350. I guess it depends on the rifle. A couple of guys I know at the Krag Collectors Association forum like Hornady 220 RN with 4350. Feel...
Forum: Military Rifles
I am curious how a person would do that with a Garand.
Crandall. You could get a schuster plug and be good to go and have peace of mind. Or you could do a little more research and be more...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
El Bibliotecario: I use clean pine needles from under the tree in the yard. Picked up a paper sack full last year for when I want to melt lead. Or I just use them from the tree. Whatever will...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
The only thing I use is generic liquid dish detergent and steel pins. I clean all of my brass before I deprime. I have bought a lot of dirty brass in the past and in the beginning I scratched a die...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
For those who want to buy that special someone a cast iron muffin pan for Saint Swithin's Day I give you this.
Cast Iron Muffin Pan SKU: L5P3...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I was doing independent research on the issue and came to the same conclusion as Bent Ramrod without knowing it. 240 Weatherby is the way to go and I am unanimous in that. I was focused on case...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I bought a couple of these for when I return from overseas but it looks like I may just have to use them for blueberry muffins. Lead. Blueberries. Win-win either way.
...
Forum: AirGuns
It's the same in other areas too. I was a salesman for a local Ford dealership in '93. (I found out sales takes a certain mentally and I ain't it) Anyway a guy comes in and buys a Mustang. For the...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Alright. How about this. We get the feds to run a lime line on the border like they were marking a ball diamond. Make it a few hundred feet long. Then the Canadians stand on their side and pitch...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Shooooooooot. (Larry the Cable Guy voice) I find my wheel weights as I walk down the street. Most of the time every car has four of them. Mall parking lots and truck and RV dealerships are...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Exactly right, Sir. It is where I go for my research. Many cartridges I have never heard of are listed and a click away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rifle_cartridges
And a couple of...
Forum: Vintage Gun Books
Personal memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Volume I https://archive.org/details/personalmemoirso0000gran/page/n5/mode/2up
Volume II ...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Did someone say 6mm Lee Navy?! Where did he get the 117 grain bullets?
That is my post-Africa project. Krag, I have a lot of love for my 6mm rifles, I mean, .236 U. S Navy rifles. But I don't think a 1 in 7 twist will work very well with cast. Gonna try it though...
Forum: Prepper Talk
Does anyone do it? It doesn't look too difficult but is it worth it as a prepper compared to just purchasing stuff?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Range reports are expected after the global warming wears off in a couple of months.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Do any of you fellas shoot bullets that are all lino? How does performance compare to other alloys? I have linotype to burn once I get back to the west atlantic side of the world.
Would lino...
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 |