Brother Joe may the hand of the Lord rest on you and yours.
Alan
Type: Posts; User: DIRT Farmer
Forum: Our Town
Brother Joe may the hand of the Lord rest on you and yours.
Alan
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Easy to mesure holes that big I do it a lot. You just need a proper template
Forum: Muzzleloading.
A chunk gun is a dedicated fixed sight generaly heavy barreled for as the old timers called a match or meat gun designed to put a round ball in an x at 60 yards. At the York you will see shooters...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I use olive oil bees wax most of the time but the best I have ever used was mutton tallow closely followed by deer tallowAll three work relly well on patches and shotgun wads.
As auto transmission...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
That would be a good couple of days shooting shotgun. Not to hard to burn through that much shooting skeet
Forum: Military Rifles
Brass from GI brass. Jeff Barlett Cast 200 grain bullet gas checked and H-335 because I have a lot of it. It shoots as good as 70 year old eyes let it
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I shot at this years Western, a good group and a great range and it is only just a little over 1700 miles from the house
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My favorite way to hunt turkeys in the fall is to wait for a breezy day and walk up on them. No camo needed just move slow and dont skyline your self. I have killed something more than 30 turkeys...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
After a lot of trials, I found a wadded load works best in my Brown Bess and 28 ga trade gun. Load as if for a shotgun drop in a ball and use an over shot wad to hold the ball in. Apperently the old...
Forum: Our Town
I thought I would have to totaly give up on open sights, have had cateract surgury, and have huge floater in the center of my eye that hurts with peeps, by accident I found out I can see iron sights...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
If you dont have a local source Roto metals on this site sells and ships. Up to a full drum, price is right but 3300 pounds. I think there smallest bag is 25 pounds, enough for a weekend of shooting
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The round ball bench guns shoot like bench rest guns should. I was watching a quater match one day, the target was x centerwith the x ring 1/2 inch. the shooter lost the bet because he left part of...
Forum: Rimfire Area
A friend just traded or a take down 22 short only old style Browning simi auto take down, although Im not sure I would want to subject it to a back pack. Just forget the deer rifle and hunt squirrels...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The round ball bench rest shooters have been through all of this and if you want to learn go sit with them with a note book. I knew a very sucessful one in the medal count, his 50 ran a 505 patched...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
If you are anal enough to cut the patches at the muzzle after seating the ball exactly the same depth in the muzzle every time shooting a match grade barrel seating the ball on the powder all from...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Good going Bob.
Hope to get to Friendship and see you
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Just an observation, I wear tan kakis every day here on the farm, and see deer a turkeys. If I wear camo during hunting season, I see much lss game. I have about quit hunting deer and turkeys but...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Per the lee chart the 1.9 dipper holds 24 grains of IMR 4198. Please double check, YMMV
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Ah my load is IMR 4198, would have to look but I know it is the 1.9 Lee dipper, been using that load with the lyman 140 grain bullit gas checked and it is the Lovern style 4 groves lubed. Clay...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
What distance, mine shoots high but light loads like 4 grains of Green dot are not much more than a puff ans shoot close to the sights at 20 yards. No gas check needed and as far as lube Im guessing...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Havent heard of it in Indiana Rich but the gnats that carry it breed on the mud flats and Lord knows we have had mud flats or as some call them fields. Seems strange seeing the Ohio in the banks
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Are you going to spend the money for a full run comp gun and shoot national level matches? if not the lee will do just fine and if the 454 dosent fit which I think it will your only out 20 bucks for...
Forum: Rimfire Area
A few 22 shorts in squirrels and a 45 round ball in a squirrel. The round ball blew it 15 feet away from the tree. And was to tough to eat
Forum: Our Town
Many years ago had a load of feeder cattle on a possom belly pulled by a road eating Internatioal. I was coming around a slower simi when a bike with a gal behind the rider shot out and braked hard...
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 |