gandydancer, make it a Canadian Beer, Eh!!!!
Type: Posts; User: Driller640
Forum: Our Town
gandydancer, make it a Canadian Beer, Eh!!!!
Forum: Our Town
Quick note, Law comes into effect tonight midnight April 5, my gun collection just doubled!!!!
Forum: Our Town
The bill to end the long gun registry passed the Senate today, 50 to 27 in favor, now just Royal Assent (signed by the GG). After 17 years of fighting, Canadian Gun owners have won a victory!! Now on...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I get more enjoyment out of hunting with my kids, that if I shot a huge Buck. My family is my everything, if we can't do it as a family, we don't do it. I enjoy their success way more than my own,...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
This is my oldest girl's 3rd year hunting and she had a good one. No cast boolits, had to sell my guns to pay the bills, haven't worked in a year, but my girl put meat in the fridge with a friends...
Forum: Leverguns
This is what I want to do, shorten Hornady 45-70 Brass until 500g Lee boolit seated at the crimp grove will function through the action. Can I use existing load data for Marlin 45-70? I will use...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Last night, Oct 5, I was gathering the materials to build a ground blind, when I notice a Whitetail Buck watching me. He was standing down hill, close to a waterhole, looking like he had just walked...
Forum: Our Town
Nrut, no my dealer only stocks flavour of the week, anything else, he will order in, if he can get it. These WSSM's were never a hot seller, so he never stocked them.
Forum: Our Town
My gun dealer told me today, that Browning as stopped making rifles for these cartridges and that Winchester will be stopping production of the ammo this year. So if you have one of these, maybe...
Yes, TC, I am using a Lee REAL in my 45-70. As cast it is to small but I beagle the mould with a double strip of tape and then size to .460 to fit my fired cases. Shoots like hotcakes. Have never...
My favorite fun load for my Marlin 1895GG in 45-70
16g Trail Boss/210g REAL HCWW
1465 fps, can shoot all day, eh!
Favorite hunting load
54g Varget/425g Lee HCWW
1660 fps, sight in at 100yds,...
Favorite FUN load for my Winchester 1894BB in .375 Win
9g Trail Boss/255g Lee PLTA(pure lead, tin added) boolit
1030 FPS, sight in at 50yds, 8" low at a 100yds, one min. of Rabbit(their
big up...
The loads I have developed for my 7.5" Peacemaker in 44-40
6.3g Trail Boss/200g boolit, chrony at 670 FPS (my favorite eh)
8g Unique/200g boolit, chrony at 880 FPS (second favorite eh)
30g/vol...
Forum: Our Town
Which is a better twist rate in a 44 Mag rifle, 1 in 38 or 1 in 20? Will shoot cast boolits from 200g to 310g and in between. Speed , cowboy to hunting. Distance, 10 to 100 yards. This is the...
Forum: Military Rifles
I was just thinking about converting a surplus rifle to 45-70, and the Steyr m95 in 8x56R can be had for $90. Has anyone done this/and what did the job require?? Thanks EH!
Forum: Our Town
The reason I ask is, the load data for the 44-40 states that max load for handguns using Unique is 10.9g. In the rifle section, the max load for 44-40 using Unique is 10.5g. Test handgun is Colt...
Forum: Our Town
So, if I were to buy 50 new winchester 30-06 cases, load 25 to a start load, shoot them, then neck size this fireformed brass, that was shot in my rifle. The volume of the fire formed brass is going...
Forum: Our Town
My mistake I didn't mean to just load at max with out starting at min and working up.eh. Meant that once u have reached max load in the manual that if u neck size at that point or seat boolit out, u...
Forum: Our Town
I was thinking about pressure diff in your brass when you neck size only. You will have larger volume with neck size only then full length sizing, because of chamber diff. That being said, if u load...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I water drop my ww and they drop at .433 eh. I then size them to .427 for my 44-40 and they remain HARD. So go ahead and size away, you can't soften then up by sizing eh. God bless
Forum: Cast Boolits
7.26MAN
Try a combo pure lead/ww Boolit, it as been posted here before, the ins and outs and howtoos eh. I can't recall the post or author but u just have to put the prue lead in mould first. Let it...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
My .303 would shoot all over the place untill I tried using filler eh. I would use what ever amount of powder for the load and then fill the case to the bottom of the neck with COW and compress it...
Well guys, shot Pietta 44-40 with 777 FFFg, eh. Can't get BP so had to use pretend BP. WOW this thing really packs a wop, eh! What I did was fill the case to where the bullet stops when seated. This...
I bought a Pietta 1873 44-40, nickle plated with 7.5 ' barrel, eh. My first sixgun:-D Does anyone have such a beast? WHAT IS A GOOD LOAD FOR FUN? What is the life expectancy if I stick to fun loads....
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 |