Here's a second .22 Maximum Lovell for you Phil. Impromptu pic utilizing a loosey-goosey bench rest because I hadn't planned on shooting that day. Single shot Krag, built by Hervey (yes Hervey)...
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Forum: Single Shot Guns
Here's a second .22 Maximum Lovell for you Phil. Impromptu pic utilizing a loosey-goosey bench rest because I hadn't planned on shooting that day. Single shot Krag, built by Hervey (yes Hervey)...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I converted an early .32 rimfire 44 with 7o'clock extractor to centerfire by the simple expedient of swapping out the breech block for a centerfire one. After that the only obstacle was ammunition...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Favorite .22 rifle: Ballard Pacific which someone re-barreled to .22.
https://i.imgur.com/adH81b3l.jpg
It shoots too. 100 yards.
https://i.imgur.com/U5e1x0Ll.jpg
Favorite .22 handgun:...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
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...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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?
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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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Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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?...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Looking good! Small cannons rock. Bore diameter?
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Military Rifles
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...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Military Rifles
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...
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 |