Here is a good place to start:
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?254401-Load-chart
Type: Posts; User: Blacksmith
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Here is a good place to start:
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?254401-Load-chart
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I did a search and did not see this book if it is a dupe ignore it or nuke it as appropriate.
Just finished reading Like Fire and Powder by Brett Gibbons. It is an excellent book that explains how...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I am not reading all 250 pages to see if this was covered but in some of the early posts there are various references to Ulrich Bretscher's Black Powder Page but the links are dead. I consider this...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
There are various references to Ulrich Bretscher's Black Powder Page but the links are dead. I consider this an excellent reference so I am posting a link to the page in the Internet Archive...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
The shape of those hooks is typical of what they use for anodes in electroplating.
Here is an example:
https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/round-shape-lead-tin-anode-1172091873.html
Forum: Vintage Ammo
This guy sells original boxes with original ammo so they are pricy but he has photos of the boxes:
https://www.rtgammo.com/index.html
Forum: Single Shot Guns
A Series of Tubes: The Alofs Reloading Magazine
This is an interesting concept. An automatic reloader for a single barrel break action shotgun.
Link to a video:...
Forum: Prepper Talk
Time to bump this thread because a lot of people are learning how important TP is.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Primed .22 cases are available again (cross posted in .22 LR Black Powder reloads):
https://fedarm.com/product-category/ammunition/22-lr/
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Primed .22 cases are available again (cross posted in What load for primed 22LR case thread):
https://fedarm.com/product-category/ammunition/22-lr/
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Quigley shot paper patched bullets.[smilie=1:
I always figured leaving fake forensic evidence could point the finger in so many directions your defense could get you off on reasonable doubt.
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Forum: Prepper Talk
Here is a surprisingly good article on the Mathematics of Prepping. I gives some mathematical probability for a prepping event happening. Also a pretty good explanation on why someone might want to...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Updated link for the Cast Bullet Association Store:
http://castbulletassoc.org/cba-store
Forum: Prepper Talk
A lot of .45 shooters hate SP brass because it messes up their progressive press so they will give it away for free when they find it. Just let everyone know you can use it and a steady stream will...
Forum: Prepper Talk
I actually went the other direction. Originally I thought having a commonality of calibers was the answer but the last shortage taught me something. When the shelves were almost empty the common...
Forum: Our Town
My last long gun I purchased from a big box store took less than an hour total, including the time for the clerk to carry the gun in its box to the front door of the store before I could take...
Forum: Prepper Talk
The other advantage of buying in quantity when it is on sale is most stores have sales that rotate so the same things go on sale every so often and if you buy enough to get you to the next sale for...
Forum: Prepper Talk
In case you haven't seen it, an old thread, you might be interested in looking at and contributing to the Prepping On A Shoestring thread:...
Forum: Prepper Talk
There will be fewer coming for the next guy down the road than came to get me. A rifle behind every blade of grass makes it rough on the regular troops.
Forum: Prepper Talk
Get yourself some Brass shot shell cases, they use large pistol primers and can be reloaded many many more times than plastic.
http://www.ballisticproducts.com/MagTech-Brass-Shotshells/products/202/...
Forum: Our Town
There are still some true Libraries around but the digital age is making advances. I was at the local library awhile back and was pleased to see lots of activity many people working with their...
Forum: Prepper Talk
Simple solution. Hand each woman one mega roll of TP and a burlap bag full of corn cobs then tell them it is their choice but they won't get another roll for a month and if they run out of both TP...
Forum: Prepper Talk
The small will be busy learning the information and skills they will need and the old should be preparing to become the store of knowledge and the teachers of the small.
Forum: Prepper Talk
I also plan on bugging in at least until the riots, disease, lack of food, and clean water thins the zombie herd. But it seems to me that a lot of people choosing bug out guns are planning more for...
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 |