That’s a good experiment.
I’ve never taken the boolits out to measure, but I have a set of Lachmiller dies in .44 Spl that undersizes the shells enough so that when the 0.430” sized boolits are...
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
That’s a good experiment.
I’ve never taken the boolits out to measure, but I have a set of Lachmiller dies in .44 Spl that undersizes the shells enough so that when the 0.430” sized boolits are...
Forum: Military Rifles
Rifle and Handloader used to be interesting because they allowed a lot of amateur experimenters to send in articles for publication. (Sort of like what’s done in forums On Line now.) Under Scovill,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Occasionally, for no obvious reason, smokeless powder starts to decompose (or, to be more accurate, the natural tendency of the nitroester groups on the cellulose to come off and begin to attack the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Green Mountain still advertises them. I think they have a 16” rifling twist, versus the 19” twist of the Shiloh barrels.
On the Historic Shooting Forum, the late, great Distant Thunder wrote up a...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I would imagine that there are complexing agents in most of these new cleaners that will pick ferric and ferrous ions off metal surfaces without dissolving the base metal. Of course, bluing and the...
Over decades of scrounging and accumulating boolit moulds, I see only very occasional Modern-Bond mould blocks without their handles, and only a couple times have I seen Modern-Bond handles without...
Forum: Leverguns
I recall that Harvey Donaldson wrote once that it was his suggestion that goaded Winchester into producing the .32 Special chambering, since the tapered .32-40 case wasn’t as efficient with the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I wrote up how I made some .44-77 shells from .348 Winchester in the “Case Forming” section here.
A fair amount of work, but the results are certifiably Cool. Also, once made, if blackpowder...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
I started my shotshell reloading with a Vandalia press. It had the attachments for all three gauges but I only used the 16 gauge. I wrote the American Rifleman asking about it and the reply...
Forum: Leverguns
M. L. McPherson’s Accurizing the Factory Rifle has a lot of tips on bedding, relieving, stock-bolt installation and other methods of correcting accuracy problems in lever-action, two-piece stock...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRuKKchj7sk
Properly set up, it might eliminate the need to turn off the swaged donut around the base when doing "extreme" case forming. That extra material could...
Winchester stopped listing loading tools in their 1914 catalog.
When smokeless powder started taking over, people were using the old black powder measures for the newfangled propellants. There...
I have a replica 1890 Police in .44-40. It only seems to shoot one load really accurately, requiring the Ideal 42798 hollow point. Cartridge length and crimp are critical; there isn’t the extra...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
The setup pictured is a cap&ball version of the Colt SAA that Uberti allegedly made for the English Cowboy Action shooters when their cartridge guns were banned. Obviously, with no loading lever on...
The #3s and #10s looked the same externally: tongs with no mould on the end and an expander/decapper, muzzle resizer, adjustable (or double-adjustable) seating chamber and powder scoop. The mould...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I found something called “Neenah Paper UV Ultra II Translucent Papers,” 8.5 M weight (whatever that means) number 01379 from www.neenahpaper.com
It measures ~0.0021” by my micrometer (using the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have a floor Model Chinese drill press with a Chinese X-Y table bolted to the moveable platform. As long as the Forster jig is level, I have had no trouble drilling and tapping holes for scope...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I use 9 gr of Unique with cream-of-wheat and a wax plug to blow .30-30 shells out straight for my .38-55 shotgun. It looks like W-244 is close on the burn rate chart; if anything, a little slower.
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Fiocchi sells (or used to, anyway) 5.5 mm Velo-Dog cartridges, which were a .22 centerfire of about .22 LR power with a metal jacketed bullet. They seem to be more or less equivalent to the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Oddly, the latch on my ASM Walker has never let the loading lever go, even firing 60-gr charges. That angle of engagement on the spring and latch has to be exactly right (I guess) in order to work. ...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Do your wiping with 10% Ballistol in water. It’s the water that dissolves the fouling that sticks cleaning patches and tears up boolits. Pure Ballistol is the last treatment after you’ve gotten all...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Spend your coupon on the best Harbor Freight bench grinder that they offer. The one I got was large, yellow and comes with its own light. So far the only casualties have been the little plastic...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I must be lucky. I’ve rented reamers from CH-4D, Reamerrentals and Shawnie Tools. The only problems I’ve ever had were a technical difficulty where I needed an original .40-90 Sharps Straight...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I’ve got one of those H&A medium frame .38-55 shotguns. Had to solder a shim into the rim seat to “adjust” the headspace for modern shells; apparently the folded-head shells of the era had thicker...
Keith The Perfessor made blank die bodies (solid and with pilot holes) for all the common types of lubrisizers. He doesn’t post here anymore, for reasons I know not, but I believe he’s still active...
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