O boy... guess its time to start another fund.... and man, id love a set of grips for my vaquero like the duke had...
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O boy... guess its time to start another fund.... and man, id love a set of grips for my vaquero like the duke had...
Aah... probably that geometry is what makes it so much easier on my hands too bad that seems to rule out a retrofit..
Got a chance to shoot a bisley at the range this weekend, and I REALY liked the feel of it. Now... the problem is, the gun fund is being channeled into the workshp building fund, and according to...
Thats what I was trying to get out, my terminology is malfunctioning. Anyhow, my brother had made some of the same boolits the other day, but heat treated them in the oven to 22 BHN, so I figured I...
Lemme ask a dumb question, in the form of a rhetorical statement. I was under the impression that the 40 s&w was one of the cartridges that headspaces on the rim of the cartridge.
Just the standard seating die, and not much crimp at that
I finaly broke down and CUT DOWN the tree I was using as a backstop the other day and hacked out a boolit. One side was heavily damaged from the target I was shooting (an old liscence plate) but the...
Wow, It never occurred to me that just air cooling aould have such a radical effect on leading. I am guessing this comes from the nature of the crystalization formation within the alloy?
Ok, following the one change rule,
First I re-lubed and let cure, shot ten. Some alleviation to leading, but still signifigant.
Next, I dropped the charge 1/8 gr, which improved the leading in the...
Sorry about that oal number, i dont have any clue what I had on my mind at that time (or lack thereof)
Oal is 1.130.
The reason I am treating the powder charge as I did is the boolit dropped at 180...
Its my first time reloading for the 40 cal, and the first batch has a leading problem.
First the load info.
Firearm: SA SD40
Cal 40 s&w.
Boolit:
Composition-straight ww, water dropped.
...
I decided recently that the time had come to reload my ever amassing pile of 40cal brass for an upcoming church picnic/turkey shoot (yea we still do that here...save for the live turkey) only to...
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Wool fedora (indiana jones pattern) most days, unless i'm going to the coast, then its a heavily raked panama jack. For cold weather one of my leather bomber jackets, sheepskin gloves, egyptian...
I have a schofield saving fund, hopefully by the end of summer itll be up to the uberti 45 colt russian cav threshold
Plesse post some pics! I love to see the old top breaks :)
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I wonder how sand would work in there, also, id try one of those rubber work mats you can get from industrial suppliers as a front, they seem to self heal when punctured.
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 |