9:1 water-Ballistol (homemade moosemilk) in a small spritzer bottle. Wet down the whole gun and wipe off with a moosemilk dampened rag. Clean later. Been doing this for almost ten years. No rust, no...
Type: Posts; User: mousegun
Forum: Muzzleloading.
9:1 water-Ballistol (homemade moosemilk) in a small spritzer bottle. Wet down the whole gun and wipe off with a moosemilk dampened rag. Clean later. Been doing this for almost ten years. No rust, no...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have a 788 in .243 with the old 22" barrel. It stretches cases like crazy with anything like warm loads. I used to use the heel of my hand to open the bolt when it got stiff. Then I read about the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Tried that: hangfires.
Had pretty good results with the white tipped strike anywhere matches.
Just cut the white tips off and put 'em in the cups with a small spot of super glue.
The little...
100 yards is convenient because:
It's far enough to show shooter/firearm accuracy without worrying about windage and mirage so much.
I allows a target with one inch markings to be used to...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thought this may be of some help. The data is old but relevant.
Forum: Our Town
Makes a good light oil for percussion revolvers.
Used to be called "sweet oil" back in the day.
Fry yer eggs and lube yer piece with one trip to the store.
Forum: Our Town
In any inflation the only condition that prevails is liquidity. If it can't be sold quick, carried away safely and hidden securely, it won't survive. Any impediment to those three conditions renders...
The "inertia" show by many firearms and reloading equipment manufacturers is, I believe, a result of several factors.
First, cartridge firearm development took place over many decades and...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Apparently so. I had the shell holder spring on my 41 year old RCBS jr.'s ram go singing off into the garage somewhere. Called 'em at RCBS and the nice lady sent me a freebie. I couldn't even talk...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I had a set of the old black dippers measured in cubic inches. When I got the new yellow ones I found the old black ones (sort of) filled in some of the gaps. Then I discovered that one can trim (or...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Cut disks with a 7/16" hollow punch from Harbor Freight.
44 gas check wads for my 429421s!
Forum: Our Town
I believe small rifle primers may have a thicker cup than small pistol primers. Single action revolvers have a longer, heavier hammer drop than double action revolvers and autos so the thicker cup...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
An important point about the Lee Pistol Factory Crimp Die: many cast bullet users seat their bullets with a diameter either as cast, sized to groove diameter or .001" larger. In the case of the...
Terminal ballistics in a nutshell:
Penetration is directly proportional to velocity.
Penetration is directly proportional to sectional density.
Wound channel diameter is directly proportional...
It's probably a good idea to check the twist on that Handi-Rifle barrel. I believe 44 Mag barrels may have a 1 in 38" twist which makes it hard to stabilize 300 grain bullets under 1600 fps. It...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
You wore gloves? Damn! If I'd known that, my casting woulda gone a lot faster!
...the scars cut down on the pain after a while, though.
I only loaded .357/.38 and .44Mag/Spl (a thousand rounds or so over two and half years) so I can't account for 310 tool performance on longer cartridges. Only reporting what I found on those two...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
At the risk of giving anyone the screaming mimis, I'd like to ask a question on the use of slow propellants in duplex loads. I thought about opening another thread, but since everyone here seems to...
First reloading outfit was a 310 Tong Tool for a .357 Blackhawk -- later a .44Mag SBH -- while in the USAF in '65 - '68. It worked, but there are limitations.
First, the 310 is not an "inline"...
Buy two sets of the yellow dippers and trim the dippers in the second set to fall in between the values in the first.
A definitive lay work on CUP versus PSI values is the Bramwell paper:
http://www.shootingsoftware.com/ftp/psicuparticle2.pdf.
The problem with regression fits of CUP against PSI lies in the...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Second posting by Veral referencing slow powders with a duplex load. The germane part:
"2. Duplex loads are always used to get a slow burning or hard to ignite powder burning, or make it burn...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Duplex loads?
http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,122511.0.html
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
There's a lot of opinion about effects of slow powder or heavy bullet loads on the op rod, and bloody little documentation. There seems to be some truth to it, but it looks to me like a lot is urban...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Noticed Pat's Reloading no longer lists IMR7383. Emailed him about it and it seems his source is riding the inflation bandwagon and is trying to stiff him for 'way higher prices. Don't blame him...
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 |