Compared with my friend Laurie's 357 Magnum S&W 640 no dash double action trigger is between 2 and 3 time heavier and much less smooth. How can I reduce double action trigger's weight while...
Type: Posts; User: Naphtali
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Compared with my friend Laurie's 357 Magnum S&W 640 no dash double action trigger is between 2 and 3 time heavier and much less smooth. How can I reduce double action trigger's weight while...
Forum: Our Town
Bugle (RMEF periodical) had a section of articles years back about ungulates' vision. Special mention occurred about their ability to detect ultraviolet kind've as a color. It also mentioned that...
Forum: Our Town
I have been informed that military ammunition is sealed from the environment to assure its successful firing from time of manufacture for decades in the future. How is this done? How would a reloader...
Forum: Military Rifles
I'll attempt to have us return to Mauser stock stabilizing after this reply.
Rather than investing about a thousand, I would send out for dark or black nitriding at about forty percent. Not a...
Forum: Military Rifles
Such "protected" wood would not accept reasonable bedding improvements? About the only way to salvage such a stock appears to be to inlay/replace existing bedding with metal or synthetic bearing area...
Forum: Military Rifles
Please describe this difference.
I think I'm visualizing "light." For best result on Mausers with stepped barrels, there is a two-procedure process. First step after cleaning/degreasing/surface...
Forum: Military Rifles
Please identify, describing how to, stabilize a standard military Mauser-type stock from late fall and winter rain and snow. There must be more done than waterproofing exterior surface when naked...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I wish I could find the article again, but I've not been successful searching. I read an article about the Gevær M 53-17 used by Denmark's special Navy organization that maintains a presence for...
Forum: Our Town
I can identify two distinct 2.25-inch leather gun belts - the "River" or border patrol with its separately affixed smaller sub-belt fastener; and a standard police belt. Because the river belt is...
Forum: Military Rifles
I have read that standard 98k military trigger assembly's final pull can be improved by stoning final pull's contact (contact angle??) with sear. Doing this apparently reduces or eliminates the...
Many thanks, guys, for responding with such clarity and precision. I hope all have a pleasant, safe Independence Day weekend.
My press is the first model with black adapter.
While I should click SUBMIT and finish the thread . . . despite missing both hex head screws, press functions correctly with 7/8-14 dies. To...
The chromed [or chomated or stainless steel] cylinder that lines the hole into which I thread in individual dies is its 7/8-14 adapter??, and removing that piece exposes 1 1/4-12 threads?
I have an at-least 15-year-old (iron) Lee Classic "O" press. I am having a push-through sizing die made that may need larger dies than standard. Lee's web page on the Classic "O" press includes the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Many thanks, guys. . . . "King. This case is closed."
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have made a practice of using zero jacketed ammunition in my Ruger LCR 357 Magnum. Normally I shoot 38 Special Remington. I want to see if I can handle 357 Magnum version. What I have found so far...
Forum: Special Projects
I'm about out of "Hail Marys". My matched pair of .72-caliber English-style percussion rifles* are up and running a whole lot better than I ever will again. But they are incomplete as far a I am...
Am I missing the gist of your problem? You require a holster for hunting only when you are wearing blaze orange in the form of a vest? If this is accurate, have you considered having a heavier cloth...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I hope, I believe, I stumbled into a "severe recoil" solution — to try my years old DOUBLER device with round ball. DOUBLER creates stochastic indentations that act on the severe air drag on smooth...
Two-and-a-half years of healing with physical therapy have paid off big time. Neurosurgeon informed me that I can shoot my .72-caliber English-style muzzleloading rifles.
And, of course, I have a...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yes, this is the device, and yes, it appears to be easy to make. I suspect The Dimpler need be remade frequently. I doubt the epoxy or whatever fixes the balls in place will hold up with frequent or...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
During a major rearrange of a storage room to gun room, I discovered a device I bought probably 20 years ago. It was called, I think, a "something??? Dimpler". Its principal is based on a proven,...
Forum: Our Town
The August 2022 American Rifleman Magazine (page 72) had an article on the Winchester Model 1892 rifle. It included information that Admiral Peary equipped his expeditions — not single expedition —...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Ric is no longer doing work. He is having severe physical problems.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Ric is the first person I queried. Either I fouled up on his CONTACT, or he did not respond. I'll try him again through a PM rather than email. I'll give three days for him to respond. I'll report...
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 |