I’ve had both. Prefer the RCBS by a wide margin, especially if casting a large number of heavy bullets.
If the heating element on the SAECO goes, you’re out of luck. They are over 50 years old...
Type: Posts; User: eck0313
Forum: Casting Equipment
I’ve had both. Prefer the RCBS by a wide margin, especially if casting a large number of heavy bullets.
If the heating element on the SAECO goes, you’re out of luck. They are over 50 years old...
Forum: Completed Deals
Just for EVERYONE’s awareness, I’ll wait until the mailman (person) comes Saturday, 21 September to see if the promised payment arrives.
I will update this thread on the status, and close this...
Forum: Completed Deals
I just saw this earlier today.
I looked at our message traffic. You never committed to purchasing the bullets, only said you were “interested”, and asked about shipping costs at 5:50 on 9/11. You...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough . . .”
Very old Chinese saying
Forum: Completed Deals
PM sent. I only have about 2 dozen cases, would like to get maybe a hundred . . .
Forum: Completed Deals
3 boxes Hornady .338 225 grain Spire Point bullets 2 boxes Hornady 200 grain Spire Point bullets #3310 Vintage boxes. $85 shipped
Forum: Completed Deals
European boxer primed 6.5 brass (once fired) only - Norma, Lapua, PPU, RWS, etc.
I have once fired US GI 30-06 brass, Lake City 223 that is sized, primer pocket swaged, polished, trimmed, and...
Forum: Camping Gear
FWIW, I quit with matches years ago. A cheap disposable butane lighter has a MUCH better shelf life than the new strike anywhere matches. You can get them wet, and they’ll still light.
Forum: Completed Deals
195 bullets total, with approx. 20 pulled.
$50 plus shipping
The 6 1/2” Model 24-3 revolvers came with the wrong height front sight. I had the same problem when I bought the gun new in ‘83 or so, and shipped mine back to S&W to have the proper height front...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I generally steer clear of 2X4s for smoking :p
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I have a Winchester Model 54 Winchester in 2R Lovell that I also inherited many years ago that had started life as a 22 Hornet. I killed my first groundhog with that rifle! The 2R is a great...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
There is a lot of good info from previous posts. Loading for the .35 can be a little more problematic WRT setting up your sizing die. Size too much, and you get excess headspace, and dud rounds. ...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If the firing pin hole is too large for the firing pin (or conversely the firing pin worn/too small for the hole), primer material can flow like what is shown in your pictures. If it is doing that...
Forum: Special Projects
I’ve never understood the rationale for facing Mauser actions. On those actions, the barrel butts up against the stop inside the action, not the front of the receiver ring, like a Remington,...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
+1 on annealing the necks. As hard as 30-40 brass is to find today, no need to “roll the dice” when fire forming.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
How is the eye relief with that 4x Leupold? I have a #3 in 375 Win that is a great CB shooter, but I can’t quite find a scope/mount combination that provides proper eye relief for the scope. I’ve...
Not quite what you asked for, but Lyman’s 429421 HP, cast from wheelweights with 21 grains of 2400 and a standard primer chronographed at 1190 fps from my 4” M29. Based on this experience, I suspect...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
FWIW, try to watch your temps when rendering WWs with gas burners. I started rendering in an old Lee 20 lb model due to concerns about inadvertently melting a non-lead weight, and ruining the batch....
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I had a similar scar show up on a revolver I sent to S&W years ago. In this case, while it is possible to weld, reblue, etc. . . . the reality is you run the risk of making it worse trying to cover...
Forum: Military Rifles
As WildWilly said, check your magazine springs. It’s a good idea to mark, or number your magazines so you can tell if a particular problem only occurs when using a specific magazine.
I was...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Lucky, Lucky, Lucky!
Those will make for nice projects. I’m biased, but would build a nice 30-40 Krag on the engraved action!!
I’d bet that scope was originally destined for a hunter class bench rest rifle. 6x was the maximum magnification allowed. They were a good scope for that purpose, just heavy compared to a Leupold....
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 |