I like having the options to use PC or Lube. Let’s say something happened and I am not able to PC now I still can lube the bullets and keep feeding my guns. If you have bullets without lube groves...
Type: Posts; User: Boomsticks Firearms
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I like having the options to use PC or Lube. Let’s say something happened and I am not able to PC now I still can lube the bullets and keep feeding my guns. If you have bullets without lube groves...
Forum: Leverguns
To a hard core Collector it would hurt the value but some times you can still got more for the just because its in better shape or in like new condition. But it is yours and you do what makes you...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The only reason why I would use the PID would be to monitor the temperature to verify that the oven is at temperature. It’s not like you need to control the temperature like when you are using your...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Got some new powder coat colors and coated some bullets.235767235768
Forum: Cast Boolits
Powder coated some 35 cal. That I casted yesterday from my new MP mold while I let the lead pot heat up. Once I loaded up the oven I then casted some 45.235537
Forum: Our Town
I have had that problem before it’s usually because the people that are working at these type of stores don’t know the laws and or they don’t want an employee to make a mistake selling a gun that...
Forum: Military Rifles
One of my favorites is 17 Remington and the others that I have is 6.8 SPC, 223 Wylde, 6.5 Grendel, 300 BO, 7.62x39, and 308 win
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The point of PCing is to prevent the bullets from leading the barrel so it should not matter that much to what the hardness really is
The first gun I shot was when I was 15 my oldest half brother let me shot his FN-49 8mm Mauser that he bought at a store in Northwoods Mall in Charleston, SC in around the late 1980s. I was there...
Forum: Military Rifles
I built a 17 Remington, 6.5 Grendel, 300 Blackout with Shilen barrels 7.62x39 with a Yankee Hill Machining barrel 6.8 SPC, 223 Wylde DPMS barrel and receiver and 2 Armalite receivers I built and of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If I remember correctly the most I have cast was something over 60 pounds but I don’t turn on the pot unless I am going to cast at least 20 pounds
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I had this happen to once. I think it was because I did not let the pc cure long enough the first bullet went in harder than usual and I made the mistake of putting a second one in to size and I knew...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have been using a dead blow hammer I think it’s pound and a half works great long as you don’t leave it closed any hot bullets or the Molds for too long because it melts pretty quick.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I never really thought about the lead dust in the case tumblers which I have 2 the Lyman and the Thumler's Tumbler Ultra-Vibe 10 Case Tumbler but about 2 years ago I built a big wet tumbler that I...
Forum: Our Town
You should take her to a couple of gun shops that have a gun range and have her try some guns out to see what she likes and feels comfortable shooting. I have 4 kids 3 of them are 15 years old...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Forgive my ignorance but why would you coat 12 gauge slugs for are they not going to be in a wad which it rides in?
Forum: Our Town
Being able to build something like car, house, a gun is a great feeling and to stand back and look at it and enjoy the things that you created is a wonderful thing. It’s nice to be able to tell...
Forum: Our Town
Well the main question was could he make one for a friend and the legal answer is no. Yes you can make all you want for yourself but as soon as you make one for someone else with out a manufacturing...
Forum: Our Town
This answer is very simple DO NOT DO IT!! You can not make a receiver for anyone but your self. The moment you make a receiver for someone else you are acting as a manufacture and you will have to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Well the the easiest way that I have found to load these little things is to use RCBS competition dies that have the window on the side of the Seating die. All you do is raise the case a little into...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I was wondering if anyone has tried to cast bullets for the 17 Remington. I have seen some bullet molds for the 17cal and thinking of maybe getting one but not sure how well they will work in such a...
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 |