I'm with DG on this, a cerrosafe chamber cast is probably best in this case.
Also inspect your lucking lugs and recesses.
Robert
Type: Posts; User: Mk42gunner
Forum: Military Rifles
I'm with DG on this, a cerrosafe chamber cast is probably best in this case.
Also inspect your lucking lugs and recesses.
Robert
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Know any hobby machinists?
I'm not familiar with the Herter's Super U press; but if it is anything like a Pacific super C, the ram shouldn't be too hard to turn to diameter and mill a few slots.
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
I used to shoot quite a few Lee 312-185 (IIRC mine drops at ~187 from ACWW) in front of 16 grains of 2400. Mine chronographed at just under 1600 fps from my 26" Parker-Hale barrel in .308. I never...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Seldom to never. I am blessed with having more than one melting pot though.
My Lee production pot has pure(ish) lead in it for my C&B revolvers.
The 4-20 and Promelt have WW, and the Magnum...
Forum: Our Town
As long as you don't have air conditioning in your truck, it shouldn't be too awful bad to change the heater core. Most of the ones I have replaced have been in Ford pickups, and as the trucks got ...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Hollow point pins aren't all that difficult to make, as long as you have a rod the correct size for the hole in the mold. I made one years ago for a 358429HP and if memory serves, I used a piece of...
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Something doesn't sound right to me. How are you determining your lead is at 770 degrees if you have no way to of gauging temperature? Please do not believe what a dial setting says.
One...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I bought mine used at an estate sale, so I have never seen the bottom of the valve rod.
But, if it is anything like mine; your grandkids will be using it long after you and your kids are gone.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Since cerrosafe isn't all that hot even when molten, I think a funnel made from aluminum foil will be fine. I would almost bet you use a funnel made from heavy paper.
A top eject lever action has...
Forum: Shot Guns
Randy,
Thirty years ago or so I had a Mossberg Model 600 (same as a Model 500 with Mossberg's version of a Poly choke) that had the choke messed up. Probably why I got it for cheap.
Out came the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
An electric casting pot is so much more comfortable than a cast iron pot on top of a camp stove it isn't even funny. I believe the old style RCBS Promelt is the cream of the crop, at least with...
Forum: Our Town
Nice write up, it brought back some fond memories of when I was a kid going fishing with Grandma and Grandpa. Even a memory of one time Dad and I were fishing and got rained out by a lightning storm,...
Forum: Our Town
From what I read on the internet years ago after I got the RMSF, it takes about three hours for the tick to transmit the disease to a human. Which made sense to me because I felt the little bugger...
Forum: Our Town
Don, a few years ago I got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick. Not necessarily a fun thing, but it was obvious there was something wrong. First tick bite in my life that looked like I had a...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Good first post.
.45 Basic brass will be too small in diameter. As you noted BACO appears to use .50-110, although I think they may have a way to stretch the length of brass.
My advice is to...
Modern-Bond mold handles are what all others strive to be. At least in my experience.
I only have one M-B mold, it casts a ~230 grain ball for the .45ACP (don't remember the numbers offhand) but...
Another option is a Tyler T-grip or a reasonable facsimile of it. I made a functional copy out of walnut for my little transitional pre Model 30 snubbie.
One of these years I'll get around to...
Forum: Leverguns
Do you really expect this bunch of enablers to dissuade you from buying a functional, safe firearm?
As long as the sight is useable, it really doesn't matter unless you intend to take it off and...
Forum: Casting Equipment
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?154184-Lee-6-Cavity-Handle-interchange-Use-list
This ^ should tell you most of what you need to know.
Robert
Forum: Our Town
Closest I have came to Matagorda bay is reading the Louis Lamour book.
Robert
Forum: Our Town
As others have already said, replace it. A new one will probably be quieter and may or may not be more effective (move more air) and efficient (cost less to run).
I would not expect a modern one...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
That cross bolt jig makes it look easier than it really is. Kind of wish I had bought one back in the day.
I have always done the internal glassed in recoil bolts for fear of making a non-fixable...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I do not know, but you may try some of the parts houses, even if they don't list them in stock.
Have you tried comparing part numbers somewhere like numrich? Not a guarantee, but it might give you...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thanks for explaining why a #1½ should not be chambered for a larger diameter cartridge. I must have read that in the past, but did not retain it in the easy recall locker.
Robert
Forum: Single Shot Guns
It will be interesting to see if it is a .43 Spanish, as listed, or a .45-70 as you say it should be given its configuration.
One thing I have slowly learned about old guns is to never say never....
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 |