How about you invite your family friend to a gun friendly state, NC or VA for instance, to hike the Appalachian Trail or parts of Skyline Drive (Blue Ridge Parkway) it is a national park, but:
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How about you invite your family friend to a gun friendly state, NC or VA for instance, to hike the Appalachian Trail or parts of Skyline Drive (Blue Ridge Parkway) it is a national park, but:
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With all this discussion about 3 levels of performance (and pressure ceilings per model) this information is basically a heads up for those who may read some of the Ruger Only load data, and use the...
You're quite welcome! Note also that all those loads are listed with the same boolit, the 280 RCBS 45-270-SAA cast.
The 280 figure that is listed in the tables I assume that's the actual weight...
This can be a hard article to find at times...
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The point Sam is making is not to ASSUME you can load the case until the boolit won't go far enough down to seat when using H110/W296. That's 100% load density and using the available case length on...
Don't download H110/W296 below minimum starting weight. Both are the same powder, made in the same plant, one badged for Winchester the other badged for Hodgdon. Load data can be interchanged.
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Forum: Our Town
Another vote for the Silverstar! You can find aftermarket housings with reflectors and lenses for the silverstar bulbs, that would really wake up your visible light without hurting other drivers,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Have a look at this thread, I modify the crimp band, make it narrower, and I shorten the collet to bring the crimp band right to the end of the case or just a tad below, for the 475 I would suggest...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I love it when finding the impossible jumps right out at you and you have the $ in your pocket! That was a sweet deal!
Forum: Cast Boolits
Wow that'a a SCORE! Want to break our hearts and tell us what you got it for? Has to be an insanely good price!
Take something to measure the cylinder throats on ALL of them, that right there might make the decision for you! Or not! Have heard of some of these with .456" throats which would be perfect for...
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
Ruger BH 9mm have the worst throats of any BH I have honed. Horribly egged, tapered, undersize, it's more of a wormhole than a throat. The Sunnen hone takes care of all that. It's no wonder people...
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
^^^^THIS^^^^^^ Nothing else matters!
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I found something VERY cool for home bakers, this would pertain to baking sourdough bread as well, we all have to "proof" the yeast by rising the dough, this is a folding proofer that can rise dough,...
Ok one more, when you are getting ready to drill through the hole in the frame and into the grip panel, put a piece of masking tape around the drill so that when the drill gets the right depth, the...
Now here's an old guitar shop trick, if the roll pin is too stiff to put the grip back on, take the same drill bit or if you have one just a few thousandths bigger, put it in the drill and put it on...
If I want to move a roll pin hole over a tad, fill it in with a piece of hardwood dowel and superglue, spray the accelerator on it and it hardens instantly, sand or file smooth, tap the roll pin out...
I totally neglected to mention that along with uneven throats creating variables in pressure, they also create unevenly sized boolits as well, since boolits will exit the front of the cylinder at...
Well, smaller than the diameters I am honing them to or there would be not much call for honing the throats, Chill Wills post is a perfect example of why shooters go for having the throats honed to a...
I've had several of those cylinders in the shop to hone, most want .4315" for .431" boolits, they respond favorably at that throat size. One or two went to .4305"
I know of one that carried 1 shy, hammer on empty chamber. In John Wayne's last film "The Shootist" the last thing he does before leaving his room and board is load the last chamber, and head to the...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Good luck and Happy Birthday! Which gun?
Ok, the heavier the boolit, generally the slower the powder, and magnum primers even though I use WLP.
Here is a nice powder burn rate chart, you can...
Forum: Our Town
Another thing is attachments. I use some photos a few times over, how could I connect pics that are in my attachments to new posts rather than uploading a new pic?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I am very pleased with the RCBS scale. One of the things I like the best is no plastic funnel = no static.
It also seems to go to the finished weight pretty quickly not any slow to tally and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
When you get to loading, make a dummy with a .432" boolit but don't crimp it, single load it and see if it fits in the throat. If that one fits like a little bit too easy, move up to a .433" the...
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 |