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You can get the Lee hollowbase mould for not much dough and never look back, as I have....

From my reading of the older shooting literature, I beleive that the old timers understood "machine rest" to be pretty much what we would now recognize as bench-rest shooting, with mechanically...

bloody complicated language; next I will leave participles dangling....

Anyway, I had success in my Trapdoor with 5 grn 4759, balance Goex Ctg. black, lightly compressed. No enlarged flash holes...

Sorry, that is Ned Roberts's articles....grammar, ya know..

If you can dig up Ned Robert's articles from the 1930s in the American Rifleman, you will find that he made extensive use of duplex loadings in BP calibers, from small to very large. I seem to...

My SS's Magnum cylinder is unfluted and clearly labeled. The LR cyl is fluted and unmarked.
Terry

The first squirrel acts like a head of livestock that has been shot in the brain with a .22 or a captive bolt stunner; spasmodic stiffness followed by thrashing in a running motion. Probably it was...

That cast looks like a 43 Mauser to me......bore dimensions are like a 71/84, are they not?

You could put it in a pile, light it and watch it go Fooofff......

BTW the 45 Colt smokeless loads at that time also used lead bullets just as the BP ones.

I recall that the (reprint) 1902 Sears catalog has smokeless loads for 44/40 and 38/40 with jacketed softpoints. I have seen some very early such loads, and the jackets were cupronickel. E. Keith...

I have never smelled cordite and been aware of it; does it smell like that powder the Russians use that smells like cat pee when it burns?

He sez that the cases swelled enough that the groove caught the extractor. He just likes to do things differently; he also owns the only 30-40 Krag-chambered Moisin I have ever seen.

I know a vet who says he put a whole case of NATO ammo thru a Moisin while he was "in country", and I suppose the cases held together, as he has both his eyes...

Yep, the single actions give the impression of being so monolithic, but it is probably all in our heads...

Last week, I bummed some Bore Butter from a rangemate for my '51 Navy, and did the best shooting I have ever done with it. I just anointed around the edge of the seated ball with a Q-tip, no more,...

The information I have gotten on petroleum vs. natural lipids has been contradictory, so of course I had to try the hard way. I have gotten nice results in my .36 Navy with Lubriplate grease, and...

You're correct, now that you jog the memory...

According to Spence Wolf, the first Govt. carbine loads had a wad, but the arsenal soon found it to not be necessary, and dispensed with it. Simple is good.
Terry

When Babe Mangan broke 2600, the American Rifleman had a nice writeup on him (I wish I could remember the year...). His biggest single asset that he attributed his success to was a .454 bullet. ...

The 30-40 has that nice looong neck, so good for cast boolits...

x=RE/D

x=amount to modifiy sight
R=sight radius
E=impact error
D=distance (range)
All numbers in INCHES.

I hope this helps.
terry

Hi: Does anyone know how blending alloys of different hardness determines the hardness of the final product? Is it in a nice straight graph line, or does it vary on some curve? Any help is...

My performance is similar; the heat source I use is that 30,000 BTU wok burner you can get on Ebay for 30 bucks. I use those half-thickness bricks to build a wind screen as needed.

You certainly do not need much compression with a duplex load, but you need a little, lest the smokeless kicker charge migrate.