Way things are going with the gun laws here in CO, I might just have to move. Hate to after being here 30+ years and getting a bit too grey for a move, but don't know if I can live with whats coming...
Type: Posts; User: rockrat
Forum: Our Town
Way things are going with the gun laws here in CO, I might just have to move. Hate to after being here 30+ years and getting a bit too grey for a move, but don't know if I can live with whats coming...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My local scrap yard charges $1.00/lb but buys for $0.10/lb last time I asked
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Grits is finer and not as much mass, so should leave less of a mark. I use Walters wads as an over payload seal. Still should take out a wasp.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Don't know about you guys, but I had a 35 Whelen 7400 semi that would shoot groups a bit over 3" with PC boolits pushed to about 2000fps and sub 2" groups when I added lube to the PC as the only...
Forum: Our Town
I put the die box in a small flat rate box first, it bulges, but I put it in a tyvek envelope then in a flat rate envelope. Same with brass. Those tyvek envelopes are tough. I think a flat rate...
Guy came in our local gun show with a 52 but with only one mag. Probably 99% if not for missing the factory grips. Had a set of RH thumb rest grips on it. He was asking $1000 for it. If he had...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I didn't think they chambered the '73 in 45 Colt, at least until modern times???
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Are you using a mag primer? Might have ignition inconsistencies.
I have had good luck PC and lubing. Groups shrunk dramatically in my 35 Whelen when it was PC/lube vs only lube or only PC
Forum: Our Town
Usually wear New Balance 608's in 13EEEE. Pair might last 4 months
I was mowing with the Bush hog, next to the road that ran in front of Grandads farm, and ran over a hornet next. Making the next pass and saw an insect cloud and figured out what had happened. Went...
Wonder what the weight is? I have one that looks like that, but think it has another lube groove and is around 195 grs. Three crimp grooves and all. One of the best shooting boolits I have. It...
Forum: Rimfire Area
The 540x just a single shot target version of the 581? Picked up a couple of them, well battered and used, but the one I scoped will still shoot very well. Trigger could use some work though.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Been playing with a few lighter weight boolits in the 45-70. NOE copy of the 457191 has a large meplat for slapping down the deer and hogs and shoots very well out of my #1 @100yds. I have a 330gr...
Forum: Our Town
Moved from there about 35 years ago after living there 20+ years. Wanted someplace cooler, so moved to the mountains of Colorado. Still have in-laws down in OK and a friend or two still alive, so...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Almost moved to Hamilton about 35 years ago. Bet it has changed quite a bit since then. Pretty small when I was there.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Wanamacher show. Which I believe is next weekend. Man, my feet are killing me for a day or two after that show and my wallet is usually quite thin afterwards also. I usually find something, be it...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I shoot a lot of the 158 Lee boolits thru my Rossi. Size almost all my 38's to .360". My 353 casull needs .358". I use a brass rod, either 1/4" or 5/16" that I got from my local welding supply. ...
Forum: Our Town
LOL, same stove we have at the outdoor rifle range target storage area. Use it a couple of times a year if our varmint silhouette/clay pigeon match is going to last a while
IIRC, people were taking 110gr and 125gr bullets and trying to see how fast they could run them. Probably using 296/H110 powder. Of course they were getting some flame cutting using those light...
Forum: Our Town
Sorry to hear of your loss. Hope you had many a good year with him.
Forum: Completed Deals
Have one box of the 35's I could part with and one of the unobtanium 6mm 85's (lots of people on Accurate Shooters would love these!!).
Forum: Completed Deals
Might have a box of the 35's. Let me look tomorrow. Also, maybe one of the 6mm.
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Put the brass in the mail yesterday. Should get it by Friday
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Grandad once shot a crow out of his pecan tree. Took the dead crow and a coat hanger and bent it so that when he threw the crow up in the tree, the hanger hooked part of the tree and stayed there. ...
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 |