Some years ago I bought two bits of the muzzle ends of Krag barrels with the sights still attached. I needed one for a cut down rifle that had no front sight and I did not want to use a an 03 sight....
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Some years ago I bought two bits of the muzzle ends of Krag barrels with the sights still attached. I needed one for a cut down rifle that had no front sight and I did not want to use a an 03 sight....
Forum: Cast Boolits
The issue I was having was how to hold it. The handle tangs are integral with the blocks so the 4th jaw would be a problem. I kept thinking a fixture on the face plate but it seems like a lot of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hadn't thought of that! I'll have to read up on it and thanks for the idea. I had been thinking about how I would hold it in the lathe to bore it out and hadn't come up with anything simple. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sadly, the mould has been drilled out to about .490". Not much good to me now unless I continue the opening up to a usable .50 caliber mould. I do have a 50-70 trapdoor that I suppose it could be...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks for that info! Based on those pictures, it has most likely been modified by a former owner as there are no grease grooves. It might not even be .457 anymore for all I know now. I can...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I recently acquired an Ideal mould as stated in the title of the thread. It was bought from an online auction with not the best pictures but when I got it, I found that it will cast a boolit without...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Okay, thanks for the responses. It will be a bit before I get to casting and powder coating do to other less fun important stuff to do but I'll let you folks know how it works for me.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I have a Marlin 1894 in .44 Magnum with micro groove rifling and an older Marlin 1895 (1970s era) that does not say micro groove on the barrel but neither rifle will shoot lead boolits well, that is...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thanks for the reply!
I think I have that book and will look that up. I'm not familiar with the windgauge sight - I'll have to look that up too. And I just did. One of those would work! At...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Years ago I bought a H&R carbine trapdoor barreled action for a cut original stock and lock that I had. The barreled action is silver plated with "engraved" scrolls but there is no rear sight nor...
Thanks for all the comments. I did dig out my nice 1930 Commercial and put a few rounds of the PPU through it. The fired primers looked fine. So back to my project pistol. I measured the fp tip...
I enjoy reloading enough but the thought of disassembling "perfectly good new factory" ammo just seems wrong. I do not find any enjoyment there. The fp hole in the bolt may be worn, actually...
Thanks for all the comments! I would think the leade or throat would have been created by the reamer which I had rented from 4D. They show the Mauser and Tokarev will use the same reamer aside from...
Anticipating the test firing last year of a project gun, an 1896 Bolo Mauser, I bought 500 rounds of new made PPU 7.63 Mauser. It took until today to get it to the point where it was ready to shoot...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I won this Frank Wesson 298299at a local auction and it looks like a fun shooter but I'm not sure of its actual chambering, they were made in both .30 rf and .32rf. I suspect .32 since they were...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks for that explanation. I guess I assumed since the sprue plate and the valve had similar tapers, they were designed to be used together. I did try using a dipper and that eliminated the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Seems to me that the sprue plate forms the sprue. The countersink matches up to the taper of the bottom pour valve body and I hold the two tight together, fill the mould until lead pours out...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'm using the sprue plate that came with the moulds.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Cleaning the nozzle on lead furnace worked as well as adjusting the amount it opened - getting good casts now, sort of. I cast a bunch of .45 maxi balls and some 54 maxi balls as well as some .50...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks for all the comments and ideas! I'll let you know my progress.
Forum: Cast Boolits
A bit of a casting rookie here. I had cast some .54 Maxiballs years ago that came out fine by using a dipper and an aluminum mould. My lead pot was rather large as at the time as I had job...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I started to run my PC boolits through my homemade sizing die and realized that the mould cast a boolit to accept a gas check! I don't have any gas checks and while I could get some, do I need to? ...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I'll cut a piece of sheet metal to fit and see if I can find some hardware cloth that will accept the .458 boolits.
Thanks again for the comments and suggestions!
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Thanks for the comments!
I chose clear because somewhere on here I read that it was the easiest to get good results and I didn't want a color choice to be a "thing". The reason I didn't stand them...
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 |