Thinking that practice went away with the arrival of the Bean Counters;
I've never seen Speer Grand Slams come with one extra. ;-)
Type: Posts; User: Kestrel4k
Thinking that practice went away with the arrival of the Bean Counters;
I've never seen Speer Grand Slams come with one extra. ;-)
Here they are, in case anybody is interested; despite one review, they looks like a decent bet to me, for $15.
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Posting just to make note of round-holding tweezers; I did not know of these, and when I am back on my main computer, I will shop for them. Thank you,
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
To break to a more positive note; who wouldn't get a smile from this ?
That right there is a subsonic, sub-MOA (@ 50 yds) load; note the seating depth. :-D
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Slugged the barrel; determined an optimum torque for the action screws. One jacketed load and at least two different cast boolits. Three different powders.
No rocket science here; I just don't...
I have a magazine article from the 60's, where the author (machinist really) converted an M1 Carbine to shoot 32-20; crazy stuff for sure. I have the PDF if anybody wants it.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
My experience was that they shot well; developed a few different loads that did 0.4" to 0.5" at 50 yds (5-shot groups) - one of those loads was the wonky 230gr wadcutter, which even fed from the mag....
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Ruger made a lot of them. $600 street price only 10 yrs ago.
Forum: Leverguns
Back in the late 1990's (when manufacturers at least faked showing an interest in their customers), I actually wrote to Winchester asking why they continued using a 1:38 twist for their...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Interesting for you to mention that; we have seen at least one instance where a factory load didn't have a flash hole (& certainly didn't fire). As handloaders, we have the potential to make more...
Forum: Shot Guns
Wait, what ? :-)
My best use of it would probably be as an excuse for missing; 'I had the wrong choke for all three shots'. ;-)
Honestly my skin crawls when I think about what one of those broken bands would feel like on the face.
Thanks, but I'll stick with safer activities - like loading Blue Dot in .308Win.
Forum: Our Town
What's that saying; "Teach a man to fish and he'll spend all weekend drinking beer & telling lies" ?
Forum: Our Town
+1 on the Firefox browser & essentially no popup ads. I do know how bad things can be for others; when I browse on my Android phone (i.e. the 'Chrome' browser), I start seeing all the crap that...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I use the Harvey Deprimer;
https://harveydeprimer.com/
It is /stout/, and even decaps WWII USGI M2 cases w/ crimped & corroded-in primers.
I never break decapping pins any more, that's for sure....
Subsonic handloads, borderline. Some of the .38Spl factory loads were actually pretty loud - even through a suppressor.
Supersonic .357Mag - "What?" :-/
I have a pic of my 77/357 somewhere, but...
Since you mentioned 9mm; the best thing I've found about the relatively-lightweight, aluminum-bodied handgun suppressors, is that they can be fantastic for a completely different role:
9mm...
Having a half-dozen or so, I cannot overemphasize the importance of minimizing FRP - "first round 'pop'"; this being the hardest metric to chart, so you sort of have to go over reviews.
One of my...
Honestly, one of my favorite activities is swapping scopes on rifles; most of the time I don't even get to sight them in before changing things around again. :-/
But have never put a ring mark on a...
Forum: Special Projects
I'm crazy about 44Mag rifles and have more than I'd care to admit; but I confess that I wasn't expecting an AR running that ctg.:popcorn:
Forum: Our Town
That is a very interesting post, 35 Rem; thx.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
"Poof - No Eyebrows" by Pat McManus comes to mind. :-)
https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=346552
I know that if I was manufacturing revolvers with 0.011" cylinder gaps, I would /certainly/ state that 0.010" gaps were not excessive. :roll:
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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 |