Great! I'm glad it worked for you.
Morgan
Type: Posts; User: Morgan Astorbilt
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Great! I'm glad it worked for you.
Morgan
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Harv, You're on the right track with the emery cloth. Get a piece of brass rod, 1/4" dia. or so, and cut a slit about 1-1/8" long, down the front end, with a hack saw. Widen it a bit with a knife,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just checked E-bay's completed auctions, and they seem to run $50-$60.
Morgan
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Because the Star takes too long to change from one bullet to another. Even if you use the same dia. die for different style bullets, you have to change out the birdshot to match the grease grooves....
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I use both, each has it's benefits. The 450 is stronger, has more leverage, and so is better for larger, harder, bullets. The 45 retains it's dies flush with the top of the casting, with a set screw,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Wally, You can't have small groups without low SD's. If the rotational speed is not within the bullets' "sleep" rotational window, the bullet will be corkscrewing it's way to the target, and the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Randy, I find a major benefit of chronographing loads missing from this thread. I don't know which unit you were using, and how many functions it has, but I find with my Oehler 35P, after the actual...
Forum: Our Town
Thanks to all for the big welcome back.
Gear, the new house is small, with no basement, but I've got a workbench across the rear wall of the garage. It's one of those made with a butcher block top,...
Forum: Our Town
Thanks for the compliment, Jay. Due to some arm twisting by my better half, about 2-1/2 yrs. ago, we moved to a retirement community (Sun City, Carolina Lakes) Indian Land, SC, about 90mi. from my...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
After dumping a few loads of powder on the shell plate, I gave up on the ram activated powder measure on my older ProJector, and installed the case activated linkage on the Hornady measure. Took too...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Check around for a machine shop that has a 108º V-anvil micrometer used for measuring 5 flute end mills. They are what you need for the 5 groove slugs. They're less common than the 60º V-anvil...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I thought that notwithstanding curios and relics, it was illegal to mount a stock on a handgun, such as used on Lugers and Mausers.
Morgan
Forum: Reloading Equipment
This subject has been covered several times before. It's an area of reloading where our "Creative Side" seems to flourish.
I'll post my photos again. My tumbler was made from a variable speed DC...
Forum: Leverguns
Bret is right. In 1956, I had to choose between a Savage 99 in the then new .358, and a newly discontinued Win 71 in .348. Glad I made the right choice and bought the 71 Deluxe.
If memory serves, I...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Thanks, I guess I'll just have to learn to live with it.
Morgan
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Is this the "new style" measure with a set screw on the right side of the drum to hold the the cylinder? The old models used the adjustment lock screw to do this. Jams are caused by a less than...
Forum: Our Town
Sprue, When you get the lathe together, use a .351 sizing die as a tapered socket to hold the cases. Just chuck the die in the lathe and go at it. I explain this in further detail in Brownells...
Make sure you use Fabinger's Pure Neetsfoot Oil (The thick smelly stuff), not their neetsfoot oil compound, which is mostly mineral spirits.
Morgan
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Anybody know how to remove this stuff short of sandblasting? I bought a 1911 "Race Gun" in camo, and it's resisted all the paint removers I've tried.
Morgan
I trim them down on my Bridgeport, using a 2" or 3" indexible end mill. This is the easiest way. You don't want the top too smooth, it's an air escape.
Morgan
Forum: Leverguns
Since you're talking about Cowboy Action, the best(fastest) rifle for this sport is what you want. A majority of the fastest shooters use a toggle link action with a short stroke kit. This means a...
Forum: Leverguns
Win '73 or 66 clone. Then you can get a short link kit if you really want to speed up the action. I use one, in .38-40, along with an original Marlin 94 (made in 1894) in the same caliber, and a...
Forum: Our Town
785F. Right in casting temp range. That's the problem.
Morgan
Forum: Our Town
Those Harvey X Bullets are the bane of bullet casters who reclaim lead from range backstops. Just a small amount of zinc will ruin a batch of lead for making bullets. The bullets come out wrinkled,...
Auston, The bore is 2.625". 2.5" will give me plenty of windage. Back when you could cut the end off an old-style beer or pop can with a can opener, I used to fill them with cement and shoot them....
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