Before retiring from driving truck in Feb., 2016 I had a dedicated route that started from a wiring harness producer in Warren, Ohio. From there the wire scrap went to Ft. Wayne, IN to be processed...
Type: Posts; User: Twicepop
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Before retiring from driving truck in Feb., 2016 I had a dedicated route that started from a wiring harness producer in Warren, Ohio. From there the wire scrap went to Ft. Wayne, IN to be processed...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have REALLY hard water (even through the softener) so mine gets a BIG squirt of Dawn and a Generous shake of Lemi-Shine (I don't measure anything). I have 50 Starline .44 Special brass that have...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I'm a piker by what I'm reading here, only two and maybe only one of them qualifies. I use a Redding BOSS for just about all my loading chores, then I have a B-Square arbor press for the few Wilson...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The last brushes I got from Brownells/Sinclairs (all pistol 38, 40 and 45 cal) all shed their bristles like a cur dog shedding hair. A friend of mine had the same problem with the rifle brushes he...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have a Lyman that I've used for over twenty years. I've trimmed 20+ thousand cases on it, bottle neck and straight wall combined. It holds tolerances of plus or minus .001" or better. If or when it...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Making .375 cases from 30-30s has a couple of shortcommings. The finished re-formed cases will be shorter than factory spec .375 cases. Another problem is that the .375 is a 50,000 cup loaded...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Most of the time I de-cap the cases when they get run through the sizer die. It then goes into the tumbler for cleaning or polishing. I know that requires me to clear the flash hole on a lot of them,...
Forum: Our Town
I got 12 of 13, not bad for a guy that barely finished high school.
Forum: Factory Rifles
They had them 100+ years back. The .22 Extra Long Maynard and the .22-15-60 Stevens. Both center-fire straight wall, or slightly tapered wall cartridges. Both were replaced by much better designs.
Forum: Leverguns
I've got one of them that I've had for 20+ years and am finally starting to have the time to play with it. Of all youz guyz that shoot cast bullets in them what diameter should they to be sized to?
Forum: Casting Equipment
I'm fairly new to the game of casting, and new to the forum. Several of the posts I've read speak of isotope cores, sounds like these are a good grade of pure lead. Is that correct, where do they...
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 |