Left my stuff with a trusted friend when my last house went on the market.
I had doubles of a lot of stuff, left the bench, and a full reloading setup with him when I came up here.
Type: Posts; User: Chihuahua Floyd
Forum: Our Town
Left my stuff with a trusted friend when my last house went on the market.
I had doubles of a lot of stuff, left the bench, and a full reloading setup with him when I came up here.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
From my experience and what I have tead, there are no rules on what a shot deer will do. Caliber don't matter, bullet placement matters but is not the end all say all. Jacketed vs cast no matter. ...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
My wife does that with my homemade wine.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Gave up looking for a 6.5 .old and just buy cast bullets off internet.
I no longer use a loading block. Just a small bowl. Pick up case, charge with powder, seat bullet. No tv, no radio, no computer in gun room, no distractions.
CF
Forum: Cast Boolits
Add a location to your profile. Someone may be close enough for a face to face purchase or swap.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I use my table saw. Cast iron surface. Plenty strong.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Did cinnamon rolls in four minutes. I do root veggies, taters, parsnips, carrots. Chicken, fish. Even makes great doughnuts.
Forum: Our Town
Not Christmas so much, but I bought the #1 Grandson his 21st birthday present a few weeks ago. Ruger Wrangler, he just turned 7 so I get to keep it for him for a while.
Forum: Our Town
i have a love/hate affair with winter.
love hunting seasons, snow is pretty, don't sweat on things.
hate cold as i have a condition that shuts off most blood flow to hands and feet at about 45...
Even though it is a heavy sob I use 15 g of red dot with a 170 g round nose, gas check and pan lube in my 1914 Enfield.
Straight military stock and steel buttplate are brutal with full loads, cast...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I picked up 20 pounds of fresh roasted coffee in Guatemala in March on a missions trip for $2 / pound. Filled my backpack.
Vacuum sealed in one pound bags. Always give a few away.
Almost out....
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Deer stand looking over corn field, heard something walking towards the files along old road behind me. Lots of dry leaves, crunch, crunch, crunch. Could tell it had four feet from rhythm of steps....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Exactly what I do. If planning to reuse case why remove and reinstall primer.
Forum: Our Town
Did you expand the case mouth before loading the bullet?
Forum: Cast Boolits
My recommendation is to start sorting early. You don’t want to melt any of the zinc with the lead. Sort and clean up what you have any only take lead to where you are melting them down.
Gas usage...
Forum: Our Town
I have two kindle fire tablets. Most of my internet and reading, games also on there. Still read paper books and magazines. Lots of WW II stuff right now.
Hope real books stay around.
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you could put your location in your profile, it would help us know who is close. East Tennessee is a big place.
Bryson City is about an hour south of Gatlinberg.
CF
Forum: Leverguns
Round nose lead is fine for tube mags. Pointed bullets not so much.
CF
Forum: Our Town
My phone is from the office. Never had a personal cell phone.
If I don't have number in directory, I just answer with my last name. Computers look for "hello", anything else and they think I'm not...
Forum: Our Town
Picked up a Suzuki C-50 last week. First bike in over 35 years. Already been cut off and run into curb. Plan for it to be my daily driver as long as not raining or need to carry something.
CF
Forum: Our Town
I passed grey a while back. Beard is white. Also 4 inches shorter than a few hours ago.
CF
Forum: Our Town
They will also cause power outages by walking on transformers. Step on the connections at the same time, both squirrel and transformer blow up.
CF
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Have you shot the existing barrel? If it looks like crud but still shoots good, why change anything?
Just asking.
CF
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 |