If the chamber sizes, cylinder throat sizes and barrel diameter are all correct you will have a gem. I also had a couple of 44-40 Ruger Vaqueros. After giving up making them shoot, I bought a...
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If the chamber sizes, cylinder throat sizes and barrel diameter are all correct you will have a gem. I also had a couple of 44-40 Ruger Vaqueros. After giving up making them shoot, I bought a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yes, he did and he was running 38-44 pressures. That may have been before the .357 was made.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Many years ago, I experimented with the 358429, 358477, and 357446. I used a K-38 Masterpiece with a Leupold scope from a rest. The groups were 6 shots. I fired 10 groups of each (not all the same...
True on this, too.
When I found out that .22LR was marginal (remember this was before Hypervelocity .22LR's) on small game using a handgun, I borrowed my fathers Police Positive Special in 32-20...
True on this.
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These are my .32 H&R Magnums (the S&W NewModel 16 has been rechambered to 32-20 since then). I have more .32 S&W Longs, fewer .32ACP's. even fewer 32-20's, two .32 Long...
I have one of the early ones with fully adjustable sights. It is VERY accurate with just about anything I load for it. I have several powders that all work good (Unique, HS-6, 2400 for heavier...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Follow the directions you posted. You can go quite a bit above published loadings that way.
I was doing some loading with a 45 Long Colt a few years ago using brand new Starline brass. I think...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I just ran across a magazine article on forming .43 Spanish cases. It runs from page 34 through 39 in the April 2001 issue of Accurate Rifle magazine. It looks like everything in it has already...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Does anyone here know what a "hardness test" is used for? We design for strength (tension, compression, or shear, and yield or ultimate), we design for ductility, we design for buckling, we design...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Well, you have me beat. However, I will still keep trying.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have some of all three. All are good for some things and not so good for others. The aluminum are much easier to cast with during long sessions because of the light weight. Small aluminum moulds...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That reminds me. I also have this stashed away. It is 50/50 solder. I am saving this for last for the same reason you guys are. Use the junk first and keep the clearly marked stuff for last. ...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I have taught my wife to buy it cheap or not buy it at all. She has done well. I am figuring the tin cost doing it this way is $3 to $4 per pound.
I randomly throw in partial rolls when...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
This is solder that my wife has bought for me at estate sales. They have all kinds of mixes from 40% tin to 95% tin. Every once in a while, I melt down a bunch and cast them in 0.690" balls. I...
If you search long and hard enough, there are a few (like maybe three) places on the internet that make and sell some of the small parts that regularly break on the Lightening and Thunderer. As...
I have never fired an 1877 Lightening with a .38 Special. I have fired an 1892 series Colt (made in 1902) with .38 Special Federal Target loads many times without any problems. Note that the target...
Don't worry. You can quit .32's any time you want. Just ask anyone here.
I've got a P32 that I used to carry. Just about any factory ammo worked as did my handloads. I also have a number of other 32ACP's. The Walther PPK and Mauser HSc do not work well with US factory...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My experience has been that harder (to Bhn 12-15) is better than softer with microgroove. Personally, I think Bhn is too low for just about anything in a rifle.
Mine are 20 to 25 years old. I have been looking halfheartedly for one like what I have for about 5 years. I have had to have the wear on the trigger/sear touched up on one gun once and the other...
Forum: Leverguns
I have a Winchester .375 Big-Bore top-eject (early one). It was drilled and tapped for a peepsight. I bought a Williams sight. It is NOT the same peepsight as the 30-30 Model 94. I do not have...
I bought about a half-dozen of the Model 15's back when they were being traded in by Police Departments. This was one at a time over a 3 or 4 year period around the turn of the century. I think the...
I seem to remember reading in "Handloading" magazine some time ago that shooting the stock standard .45ACP in a Webley was the same as shooting a .455 proof load in it every time you pull the...
My father told me one time that they had converted trap-door Springfield rifles with blank 45-70 cartridges when he was in the Navy (1944-1945). They were used for line throwing.
When I said heavy, I meant in comparison to my usual CAS loadings that I used in those guns. The loads I used were safe loads from the loading manuals. The base pins Uberti had back then had two...
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 |