I bought an ultrasonic cleaner recently. It buzzed but didn't do anything. I checked online and there is a test; put a piece of aluminum foil in and run for three minutes; when you pull the foil...
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I bought an ultrasonic cleaner recently. It buzzed but didn't do anything. I checked online and there is a test; put a piece of aluminum foil in and run for three minutes; when you pull the foil...
Forum: Our Town
"Where de Berdan primers at?"
Urban legend says they make them for the export market, but don't sell them here.
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
A friend had a 1911 stolen. Ten years later he got a postcard from a city PD in a neighboring county; they had recovered it from a "prohibited person". Took a few weeks for paperwork and...
Forum: Special Projects
A friend bought a very nice '98K Mauser sporter, with an aftermarket barrel marked "7mm". When it failed to accept a 7x57 he called me for help.
In the end, we determined that the "7mm" barrel...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Moleman:
Thanks. I ran into so much variation on .45-70 brass I'm always leery of rimmed cases now.
TBG:
Unless a bolt of sanity strikes, the intended victim is a Saiga .410 shotgun.
On the...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
I'm rebarrelling a rifle to .444 Marlin. I just lre-earned that headspacing a rimmed cartridge isn't as easy as I expected.
A rimless cartridge, the distance from the base to the shoulder is...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If it's a pre-SAAMI .357, the bore could be .356, .357, or .358, depending on who made the gun, and the bullet sizes in commercial ammunition varied as well. Every manufacturer had their own idea as...
Forum: Our Town
> cellulitis
That plus swelling often means lymphedema; lymphatic fluid puddles in your lower legs because the lymph nodes aren't doing their job pumping it back up any more.
Untreated, your...
Forum: Our Town
My wife had a triple bypass at 70. It was supposed to be a quintuple bypass and a pig valve, but apparently there were problems interpreting the diagnostic tests or something. I asked the doctor if...
Forum: Special Projects
I read the whole 12gaFH thread on AR a few years ago, and looked at the ATF web site. What I took away was the ATF had ruled "if it will still take a shotgun shell, it's still a shotgun" even if...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Call Bar-Sto, Nowlin, and Schuemann first. Then work down the list. Bar-Sto used to list .38/45 and .38 Casull.
What happens is, they drop low-selling calibers from their catalogs, even the...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
25.4 came from the US Department of Commerce, to simplify conversion between systems in international trade.
It has had far-reaching consequences in chemistry and physics, where the rounding error...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Shotgun extractors are typically a hook and a pusher. The hook does the extracting, the the "pusher", which looks like a broken hook, is on the other side. Since shotgun shells and their rims vary...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Decimal feet. American industry used to run in fractions, mostly, as did government contracts. During WWI a coalition of Detroit manufacturers petitioned the War Department to be able to use...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
...but a 7.62x54R, a 7.65x53 Mauser, and 7.7 Arisaka all shoot the same size bullet...
Back in the day there were differences in sizes because some standards measured bore diameter, some the...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I used to make 9mm Largo by cutting the rims off .38 Special cases, cutting extractor grooves, and trimming to length.
Back then Largo was obsolete unobtainium; Norma had made a small run years...
Forum: Our Town
Rugerforum.net is a VerticalScope property. It exists to collect clicks for their "internet-based vertical marketing system."
VerticalScope seems to buy forums primarily on their domain names,...
Forum: Special Projects
I've seen some rather nice jobs done with the sandy paint they put on steps to make them not-slippery.
On the other hand, a pair of the tacky-palmed "work gloves" for a few bucks would be really...
Forum: Special Projects
There are two types of wood that are generically known as "cedar." One is a coarse-grained red or reddish-brown wood, "true" cedar. The other is actually juniper; that's the stuff with red, orange,...
Forum: Special Projects
There are two types of wood that are generically known as "cedar." One is a coarse-grained red or reddish-brown wood, "true" cedar. The other is actually juniper; that's the stuff with red, orange,...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Undyed birch stocks are sometimes found on SMLEs and AK-47s, where they're referred to as "blonde" and command a premium price.
I like the light color. Aulde wal-nut gets old after a while.
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
You're talking about an adapter to shoot .22 inside a centerfire barrel?
Enfield actually made such a thing; a rifled .22 liner that slid up inside the .303 barrel, a bolt head with an offset...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I think the .303 Epps had a sharper shoulder, but I can't find a case drawing at the moment.
Forum: Special Projects
There's a guy by the handle of "moleman" on Weapons Guild and Gunco who built one of those a few years ago. He has some loading data for that cartridge when you get to that point.
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 |