We all should have gotten Ranch Dog molds before he closed up.
Jerry
Type: Posts; User: miestro_jerry
Forum: Leverguns
We all should have gotten Ranch Dog molds before he closed up.
Jerry
Forum: Special Projects
I keep my in pill bottle, so I don't have a piece of wood that takes up so much space on my bench
Jerry
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I always check the weight when I find an older can of powder, sometimes if the weight isn't right of the powder is a different color, I pour it in my compost pile, great source of nitrogen.
Jerry
Forum: Our Town
Sorry I haven't been around for the last few months, my brother is fading away, the doctors say it failure to thrive. He is in a nursing home that is a really nice place.
He is a couple hours...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Grainger industrial supply had Lead Free Solder on blow out a couple years back, and I got more than 100 pounds at about $5 a pound, delivered.
Jerry
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I use the RD TLC311-165-RF in my Marlin 336 30-30. With gas checks that I got from a group buy. I use WW 748 powder about 34 grains, I have chrono'd the bullet at 2,150 (avg for 12 boolets). My allow...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have used the Lee Collet dies for a while now, I bought the .223 and .308win when they first came out, they work extremely well, since then I purchased all of the rest that have been offered. I now...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I use the RD TLC432-300-RF in my Marlin 444T and my Contender Super 14. The bullet and the cartridge perform well in both.
Jerry
Forum: Cast Boolits
I keep my Cast Boolits in G.I. cans, no external oxygen or humidity. I keep them in the basement where it is cool and thus no melting of the lube. I have some that have been in storage for 10 years...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I use a 243 and took it over my 257 Roberts. I took a deer over in W.V a while ago at 175 yards with a CB in my Rem 700 BDL.
Jerry
Forum: Gas Checks
I am looking for gas checks for a 500 grain bullets with a .515 diameter, it is bullets thrown from the Lee 515-500-F boolit. These GC can be aluminum or copper. My brother shoots these bullets out...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
I have been buying dies from Chris for a while and they always are number one quality. I recently bought the Star Luber handle that Chris makes and it is an outstanding help for me. Shortly, I am...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
I make my own lube and I keep the pressure a little on the high side and about 125 to 130 degrees, like others have said.
It take a little getting used to. The learning curve is actually simple,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
What you actually shoot it in, is very important. And with such a powerfaul cartridge I would know everything to know about what your shooting it in.
Jerry
Forum: Cast Boolits
If your buddy has a 6" revolver it can one of two or three that were made, and they are really worth a lot these days.
I still have two boxes of the Remington factory loads, they were famous for...
I have one of the Lyman .358 214 grain SWC molds and use them in my Max pistols, 10" and Super 14 and my Max carbine.
The slightly heavier bullet works very well for me and it does turn deer in to...
You put a know amount of force behind a ball ended piece of steel and it does some type of indentaion on the metal being tested. The microscope has graduation on it and the size of the dent is...
Forum: Swaging
How big a hole do I need to drill for 38Spl/9mm core and for 45 ACP core?
Thanks,
Jerry
Forum: Military Rifles
I used to do a cheap load a lot more than I do now. It's a lot of fun, some times your plinking rounds teach you a lot about loading and shooting.
Jerry
Forum: Cast Boolits
I would put that witches brew of pounds in my compost pile. To even consider using it is show of great ignorance, which many of at one time or another have been afflicted with.
Jerry
The problem with testing the hardness of boolits is the outer layer or surface of my boolits is harder that insides.
I use a industrial hardness tester that I use in my machine shop.
Jerry
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 |