Looks like rubbish. I will send you a check for 200$ and relieve you of that noisesome burden....
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Forum: Military Rifles
Looks like rubbish. I will send you a check for 200$ and relieve you of that noisesome burden....
Forum: Cast Boolits
That boolit should load and feed fine.
rossis ship with a thick oil in the receiver, which collects dust dirt and everything else
Clean it, and check that the cartridge stop is moving freely. If...
Forum: Cast Boolits
How far in are you able to insert the cartridge?
If it is hanging up, there is a couple of possibilities.
Rossis can have burrs around the loading gate, both on the opening in the reciever and the...
Forum: Our Town
Fruit trees in general are a lot of fun to raise. I have two cherries, two plums and two peaches. They are a little more work to manage, but very rewarding.
Check your zone, but most fruit trees...
Forum: Our Town
Mulberrys are a seriously underrated fruit. The dark purple ones are sweet/tart and make great jam. The trees themselves will grow in good/poor/rocky/sandy whatever soil and root easily.
They are...
Forum: Our Town
Panem et circenses Keeps the rabble nice and controllable.......
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Come to think of it, every groundhog I have dispatched attracted flies really quickly.... I often noticed it, but never thought of it. Strange.
Glad you were able to get rid of the critter. Those...
Forum: Special Projects
Never done it myself, but some of the original service loads for the vet were paper patched. I think the biggest challenge would be finding a mold to get you there!
Forum: Special Projects
The real trick is the brass. The Lee mold is used by a lot of vetterli addicts.
i converted 348 winchester brass. Trim to 44mm, lightly anneal, run throught the Lee fl sizing die, re trim, deburr...
Forum: Special Projects
Your finished Vetterli cartridge will look something like this;
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Forum: Special Projects
http://leeprecision.com/mold-6-cav-c430-310-rf.html
currently using the above mold, minus the gas check.
This mold drops a bullet long enough, with the previosly mentioned 44mm case length, to...
Forum: Special Projects
Lees dies work pretty well,,,,but,,,,
the seating die nose stem is too long for the Lee 300 grain .430" bullet. You will have to go through some gyrations to get it set up to seat and crimp in one...
Forum: Our Town
2 terabyte external hard drive. Cheap for the amount of storage.
open a Dropbox account. It is free. Viloa, now you have a cloud account to put your files as well. Share a few folders on Dropbox...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Tortillas, popcorn, and butter milk (bleck....I only keep that stuff around to make biscuits).
when I open the buttermilk, my cat Bentley pretty much would fight a lion for it.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
A good friend of mine served in the navy. Apparently on his ship ketchup was referred to as "navy gravy"!
Forum: Cast Boolits
Great post Char. Many thanks for it.
Take heed here friends, many lessons were just laid at your feet.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Built on a Mauser action, chambered in 6mm Remington. Still waiting on some pictures to share.
His best guess is that the rifle was built in the very early 60's.
Forum: Our Town
Advice is free, and sometimes good.
1) Work hard. If you already work hard, work harder.
2) Save money when you can.
3) Stay out of debt whenever possible.
4) Find people that are smarter than...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Does anyone have any information on an Ohio gunsmith by the name of H. K. Wineland.
I was able to find some basic stuff , but I was wondering if anyone here in the collective had anything.
He was...
Forum: Our Town
Are you upset that the videos don't give you the answers you are looking for?
Or are you upset that the videos that people make and post here, in an effort to help, are of poor quality?
Forum: Our Town
If you don't mind me asking, what does a framer make on the hour these days? It always seemed to me that framing was pretty involved task process, requiring a fair amount of skill to do well.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I got that from your thread on subject. Another way to put it is that your bell curves act as the canary in mine. When the curve flattens, it indicates an shift in the repeat ability/consistency in...
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 |