We’ve used Orlen a lot and he does good reasonably priced work , however he doesn’t cut threads for Briley choke tubes .
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Forum: Shot Guns
We’ve used Orlen a lot and he does good reasonably priced work , however he doesn’t cut threads for Briley choke tubes .
Forum: Shot Guns
I used to swear by REM 10 gauge hulls and would buy a couple hundred unfired every year . Simple matter to trim down to 2 7/8” for my use . Year or two ago I was given some RST once fired 2 7/8”...
This buckshot thing “can become” an addiction ! And while the majority of what I’ve done over the last 8-10years was for the 10 ga 2 7/8” it did cause me to make 0000 and 00000 then when I acquired...
I load 000 in short 10’s . Most of the 12 2 3/4” I’ve loaded was 0 . Now with that being said for the 12 3” I keep factory 000 , 00 and 1 on my shelf .
Forum: Shot Guns
FWIW lots of folks think using the Cheddar Cheese primers make the pockets useless for WIN REM or Federal primers . I’ve found that not to be the case . First time I tried the Cheddite primers I took...
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A guy in NE PA sent me a picture of bricks of Remington STS primers for sale $100@1000 . That was last week I believe .
Forum: Shot Guns
I bought five sleeves of WIN 209’s in 2020 I believe it was . Three from Brownells and two from a local sporting clays range . I’ve used up four sleeves and have 5k left and they aren’t going...
I bought a Belgian made 410 hammer gun with 30” barrels from a friend in 2022 at the Southern Side by Side . I bought it thinking it to be a 2 1/2” gun turned out it had 2” chambers . RST was or is...
I’ve used a .795” roundball in my Parker DH 8 gauge and killed a deer with it . I did however end up wrapping the roundball four or five wraps with masking tape . I used the masking tape for two...
Forum: Shot Guns
Nothing against Briley but there are far better choices than them . To put this all in context a nice decent 20 gauge Trogan at best is maybe a $2500 gun . With Parker’s condition is everything as...
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I’d scrub the piss out of the barrels . As to honing I’d not until I’d taken it to a known GOOD barrel guy . A person that’s not good at Honning can and usually will make it worse honing to much over...
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I’m about 99.5% sure Parker made NO Trogan grades with Damascus barrels .
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You have an Ithaca not a Parker and that’s definitely not an A-1 Special .
There’s more of a market for 10 gauge 2 7/8” SxS’s than you may think . However the majority of the market is for Parker , LC Smith , Lefever , Ithaca and pre war European guns . Although I do have a...
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Only time I’ve ever really noticed anything with a semi auto was with an 1100 410 skeet gun . The lack of recoil let you feel the bolt slamming home . And with that being said I’ve never noticed that...
If the hole is small enough that it can’t fall out I’d not give it another thought . If however you decide to start adding buffer then I’d try to close the crimp or add an overshot card .
FWIW I have the Lyman sabot style slugs for all gauge 10 to 28 . The 10 , 16 and 28 were made by the Russians that sell on EBay , the 20 is a Lyman and my 12 is an NOE four cavity although I borrowed...
I have an actual Lyman 20 gauge sabot slug mold . Granted I’ve only used them in smooth bore SxS’s they met my parameters nicely .
I keep Brenneke factory loaded slugs for the 12 , 16 , 20 and 28 gauges on hand . Shot some 20’s in a circa 1969 Briwning A-5 20 gauge Magnum with an IC barrel today . They did very nicely .
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When I was at the apex of my competitive skeet/trap career a lot of the better trap shooters claimed 32” barrels were to hard to get around on the second target of trap doubles . As to skeet I...
I bought two of the Wadcutter HB molds with replacement pins so they could be solid base .
I got a couple ML molds from a guy in PA originally made obviously for ML’s but other pressed into use for shotguns . Think they’re called Moose molds or something like that ....
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Nope it’s more of a be prepared for the next set of idiots the what seems to be liberal majority sneaks into office next . You don’t see me going around saying I need this or that as I’ve been...
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Right or wrong I weigh my bismuth on a scale and don’t use the charge for anything other than the powder . I rarely load more than a box or two at a sitting .
Squid Boy I wish I were coming tommorrow to see you and Kevin and Austin again . But the trip to Hausemanns is getting longer for a third trip this year if you count June there and July at Mike’s ....
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 |