I've been a COAX user for over 55 years. The older "Brown" painted press. I now have two of them. I could not count the number of rounds loaded over the decades using these presses. The loaded rounds...
Type: Posts; User: Rapidrob
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've been a COAX user for over 55 years. The older "Brown" painted press. I now have two of them. I could not count the number of rounds loaded over the decades using these presses. The loaded rounds...
Forum: Rimfire Area
My wife's "funnest" .22 rifle is a Mauser trainer from WWII with an original Fecker 4-power scope with very fine wire cross-hairs. She has won many 200 meter matches with this rifle.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Borden's Slide All. A dry spray on film that works very well. Be using it for decades.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
What a load of you-know-what. In 1974 I had a Bernadelli Itallia shotgun gun made for me, fitted at their factory and it took 11 months to make.
It was one of the lightest side-by-side shotguns ever...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
BAW is some tough stuff. Once dry, it has a very strong film strength. (think ten pound bowling balls slamming onto the lane) A couple of coats on a sub-sonic cast bullet should work very well.
Forum: Cast Boolits
If lead does build up on the forcing cone, the Lewis Lead Remover is one of the best cleaning tools ever made.
Forum: Military Rifles
I enjoy shooting my Dutch Rifles and carbine. The bores in my two as posted here are .266/7. The carbine bore is in very good condition. The rifles bore is sharp but dark. They both shoot well with...
Forum: Our Town
I've been running NM MILSURPS ( Military Surplus Rifle Pistol Shooters ) for the last 28 years. The range is divided into two ranges in one. One is metric from 25 to 500 meters. The other 200 to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A slower twist will produce a lower chamber pressure than a faster twist ( less resistance for the bullet to travel down the bore ). This in theory, should produce less recoil.
For double action...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The Wad-cutter only pistols were capable of very good accuracy out to 50 yards, both in rapid fire and slow fire. Recoil is very light and recovery time is almost never an issue.
The fired cases...
Forum: Cast Boolits
1ST question, No.
The 158 would buck a slight breeze a little better than the 148 grain. The big diff would be in the type of WC the bullet is. A Double end'er or a hollow base WC.
The HB would be...
Forum: Cast Boolits
When the 6.5 Grendel first came out, I jumped on the band wagon and assemble one. After some research i found that Alexander Arms clearly wrote do not use 7.62x39 military brass when reloading this...
I too cast the little bullets. I spend more time culling the poorly cast bullets than reloading them!
I reload the .25 ACP cartridge a lot. I use a Dillon 450 progressive press and a RCBS Little Dandy rotor powder measure with proper rotor for the light loads of Bullseye, Unique or 231. I use a Lyman...
Forum: Special Projects
Very nice indeed. Did you do the bone case hardening?
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I just cleaned both rifles. The .30-40 was about as dirty as firing commercial ammo out of it, a gray patch 1st time through.
The 8x56R 1st patch was so clean the patch almost had no deposits on it...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Weather here was cold,snow and windy at 9AM when the range opened. I fired the .30-40 Krag first using the above load and was able to find the zero and got several hits. Light was poor on the sights....
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I've had very good results with 8x57 Mauser, 7.63 Argentine, 7 MM Mauser, 7.5 Swiss, 8 mm Siamese, 6.5 Swede and the U.S Military calibers ( not 5.56 ) and some hunting calibers. I've found that...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A great cartridge and accurate. If you shoot a jacketed bullet in the future, be aware the 7.62x39 military case is not the same as the Alexander Arms designed 6.5 Grendel case and pressures can be...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I developed two more loads using IMR-7383 RAD-73 surplus powder.
1896 Springfield .30-40 Krag rifle with Hornandy 168 grain FMJ National Match with Remington LR primer. 45 grains of powder. 100%...
Forum: Military Rifles
I will be shooting the rifle at 500 meters this Saturday using 185 grain HPBT as well as 220 grain RNFB bullets. Should be interesting.
Forum: Military Rifles
I got my first Enfield rifle, a No4 Mk1 in 1965 for 17 bucks from a friend. I still have it. It is in NRA very good condition but has never been a great shooter.
Head spacing off of the shoulder...
Forum: Military Rifles
While I am not an Enfield expert I do have a large collection of Enfield rifles and carbines. Does you rifle have the brass pin going from L to R though the stock? In front of the Magazine well?
If...
Forum: Military Rifles
We were allowed three sighter shots at a 12x10" target then 20 rounds at NRA High-Power Chicken Silhouette AR500 steel targets. All set at 200 meters and shot off-hand.
There were AR-15's, an AK 47,...
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 |