One thing that folks who substitute slugs for lead shot weight for weight don't realise is that when a lead bird shot cartridge is fired the lead shot is both slightly crushed and squashed together....
Type: Posts; User: Little Oak
One thing that folks who substitute slugs for lead shot weight for weight don't realise is that when a lead bird shot cartridge is fired the lead shot is both slightly crushed and squashed together....
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Many years ago a pal and I used to lamp rabbits at night to keep the rascals down for farmers, as we do here. He drove the old delivery van around the fields and held the lamp, I did the shooting...
Here's my two penneth worth - what quality of instrument you get depends on what you can afford and how old you are.
What's age got to do with it I hear you ask. Well if you're young and want...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Few folks eat carp where I'm from but the ones that do keep them alive for a few days in a large bath or similar full of clean, fresh running water. Apparently it washes all the 'mud flavour' out of...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
And don't forget the most important of all - TLA, which is the three letter acronym for Three Letter Acronym!
It's a long time since I loaded buckshot but I do recall getting 'lumpy' finished cartridges if I tried to crimp too tightly, with both star and rolled crimp. I wouldn't use card and fibre wads in a...
I used an aged Pacific/Hornady progressive press (the forerunner of the Lock-N-Load) to load for several different pistol cartridges with different makes of primer and I found that the priming arm...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Back in the day when I as involved with deer control in UK I came across a few Roe deer does with antlers, a pal of mine once accidentally shot one as a cull buck as the antlers were very poor....
In his 'Book of the Gun' Greener gives 2 loads for a 12 bore rifle, depending on the weight of the rifle.
1. using a 13 lb rifle - 191 grains (7 Drams) with a 599 grain bullet for 1584 f/s. ( I have...
Here's a very vague reply but it may help?
Back in the day I used steel Weavers quite a bit and had to have some repaired. The first place I sent them to were ex-Weaver employees located in Los...
First slug the bores to find out what the bore and groove sizes are. Secondly have a look at the chambers to see if it was built/reproofed for brass cartridge cases (thin) or standard cases. Quite...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I personally have one piece of taxidermy in my house, a high gold roe buck from back in the day that comes with a story, but a hunting pal of mine just down the road has a house full, including...
In UK we have a very old and well tried shotshell loading regime we term Long Range/Low Velocity that was originally adopted for loading heavy shot charges for wild fowling, etc. in standard guns....
Forum: All about knives
Was watching an episode of The Last Alaskans the other day and Heimo set about a caribou he'd just shot with the knife blade of what looked like a Leatherman multitool!!!!
Maybe this is what...
With Gnostic. I recently purchased one of the 'cheap' Bushnell 3-9's for my son's air gun and was surprisingly impressed with the lens quality. And it's holding up well to the spring gun.
Back in the day I helped out in a large firearms wholesale/retail business and was always amazed that a guy would spend thousands an a high grade rifle and mount the cheapest scope on nasty cheap...
Forum: Our Town
As mentioned in a previous reply, in UK & Ireland (maybe Europe in general?) we call them sound moderators but the same people who are determined to describe cartridges as bullets and bullets as...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
If you read Taylor's African Rifles and Cartridges he said that he liked slow (ish) lead bullets on buffalo but indicated that he was careful with his shot placement as the actual shoulder was very...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have noted with interest the recent resurgence of the all-brass shotgun case as when I was a lad mucking about in the estuaries chucking large loads of shot at geese and stuff there were still a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Agreeing with BK7saum, it's not usually a god idea to size down jacketed bullets like lead bullets due to jacket/core separation. If an odd sized jacketed bullet is needed for some special project...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I recall reading about this a long time ago. As I remember it the rimfire blanks were fitted in hollow point lead bullets loaded in the old black powder express African cartridges to try and improve...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Here's my tuppence worth on this discussion.
1. Scope.
When I hunted as a part time (seasonal) professional in UK it was mostly for Roe bucks cause that's what the European clients wanted. The roe...
Forum: Our Chapel
A big problem for people who lie is that they believe that everybody else is the same and miss out in some very fundamental ways such as trust.
Those of us who are truthful through Faith and...
Forum: AirGuns
My nephew bought the 45 Peacemaker lookalike but the pellets jammed in the chamber. Sent it back to the UK distributor who called right back saying that they couldn't find anything wrong BUT their...
Was brought up Imperial and converted to metric later. Now if I'm machining something I take all big cuts in millimetres and all small cuts in thou!
And yes, I do purchase fuel in litres and convert...
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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 |
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