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The Iguanas are not too bad unless they drop excrement in your swimming pool. The black lizards are tegu's. They have sharp teeth and do carry Salmonella. Be careful handling them after they are...

If you are cutting the square threads on a barrel made in the USA, they have to be chased on a lathe. I cut square threads all the time. Sharps, Remington Rolling Block, Springfield, Marlin, and...

Marlinman93: Your new handle should be "Luckyscope". I really had to scrounge around to find an old Lyman 438 Field 4X target style scope for my latest project gun. Got an old Remington 32 cal...

What are you threading? All the screw threads on a Marlin are SAE. Are you referring to the barrel thread?

I have my 6" Colt stainless Python for 2 years now. The gun is a thing of beauty! The action is smooth, the double action is great and the single action trigger breaks at 3 1/2 lbs. Have probably...

What a thing of beauty! I fixed up an old Master Caster !!!! It is working well. Sure would be nice to automate it! It is a chore casting the boolits, constantly watching the lead level in the...

I really like 4759 for loading cast lead boolits. Must have 40~50 lbs left. My cast boolit loads for 38-55, 40-65, 45-70, & 50-70 all shoot well with 4759. My 1877 Colt Gatling works with a Magma...

The best supply of tin is yard sales. I found three rolls of 50-50 solder for $2 a roll. One roll had some solder missing but it was still a bargain. Also if you are buying scrap lead water pipe...

I like your post about soaking your cartridge paper in a slurry of old spilled powder dissolved in acetone. Have saved all the spilled powder over the years into a jug. So this old powder will...

Looks like lead/tin base soft solder... Clean or grind off as much as you can and use silver braze with the white cream flux. You will need an oxygen-acetylene torch to melt the silver braze...

Do you have a buddy with a horizontal milling machine or a Bridgeport vertical mill? Have a 1/16" slot cut through your front sight. Get a piece of brass or an old door key and slide file it to...

The 55 caliber British Boys Anti-tank guns were imported into this country many years ago. Because they were over 50 caliber they were classified as NFA firearms and required registration under the...

I live in South Florida half of the year and am ocean side on the water. The ocean salt mist covers everything. Cars, boat, Harley and gear get a daily dose of salt air. When I come back from the...

I have around 4000 45-70 cases that I use in my two Gatling guns. One is a Thunder Valley 10-barrel reproduction and the other is an 1877 Colt Bulldog. Hard cranking will produce around 300 rounds...

Carp are great! Grandma gave me her recipe Take the carp and nail it to a nice pine board. Roast in the oven for 1/2 hour. Remove the carp and bury in the vegetable garden. Then eat the pine...

Don't waste your money! Buy a Marlin in 45-70. Much better gun.

The Swiss German name for early experimental propellant which means: "shooting cotton" or common guncotton. We are experiencing a shortage of propellants used to reload our cartridges. The common...

Am an old stock maker. An old kerosene lamp or a lit candle works great. Hold your barrel or action over the flame and the lamp black gets applied. The lampblack from the flame is transfered to...

Great cap and ball revolver! An 1863 Remington on steroids. My buddy has shot two deer with his using a conical bullet and 28 grs of 3F Enjoy your great gun show find.

Acquired a box of old reloading gear, gun parts, and ammo. In the box of various sights was an odd looking aperture sight. This sight has an adjustment screw on the rear and a 1/4"x 28TPI thread on...

Pretty cool Leadchucker! Makin your own caps. I like shooting percussion 54 cal Sharps, a Colt 58cal musket and an old Tower 1853 Enfield. Might have to get into making caps too if they get any...

I had the same problem using 54R Norma but chucked the sizing die up in my tool room lathe. It fit in a 5C collet. I used a carbide cutter to remove .012" off the face of the die. Worked great! ...

Two Gatlings in 45-70 and an M1A1 Thompson shooting cast boolits. My Master Caster machine gets a work out. It keeps saying: Feed Me, Feed Me! Thanks Bud for the count calculations. How many...

Lead seems to be around .40~.50 cents per pound at current scrap prices. 5-7-2024 Ran into a fellow selling his house. He apparently had a boat that listed to starboard. 150 lbs of lead ingots...

Kevin: Welcome to this Boolit site! You will find a wealth of information here!! If you look up Track of the Wolf they have a lot of card wads, filler wads and nitro over powder wads. Dixie Gun...