Monday I will be approaching a gentleman who is offering Soft for .55
We will see where it goes, but heads up...
Type: Posts; User: Old Ironsights
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Monday I will be approaching a gentleman who is offering Soft for .55
We will see where it goes, but heads up...
Yep. They are pretty rare to find intact at a decent price. Lots of them went to Europe where the .410 is actually more commonly used. I keep mine busy feeding my .410 levergun.
Forum: Our Town
Professor/Doctor Asperly has surfaced again...
http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=67674
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Forum: "The Barrel Works"
I want to ream a heavy .410 BBL out to .429 (maybe .428?). The barrel itself is easy enough to remove from the gun so that is all I would have to do.
Stainless steel, nothing fancy, just a clean...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
At least in LaLa land you have harbors near (enough) by to maybe get some old keel lead or old dive belts... (emphasis on "old")
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
The sad thing is... I have sold/given away more than I have been able to move cross country - and I still have 1k of ww/ingots, 300lb of pure and 8 buckets of raw... :(
I use a cast "funky alloy" mallet... then re-cast it when it gets too chewed up.
That said, I have done .45Colt, and .44Mag, and regularly use .45ACP, .410, 9mm & .357/.38 (and have each for my...
Yes... and Huntingtons are also essentially unobtanium.
Almost as unobtanium as a complete Classic Lee Loader in .410.
But for anything but really long straight-wall cases they really are your...
Forum: Our Town
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(Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man... ancient Klingon Proverb...)
And yet... other than the unobtanium Tong Tool(s) has any other reloading tool company come up with products that can be used around a campfire in a TETOWAWKI scenario (or whilst sitting around a...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
200gr .45 Lee REAL or .454 ball works best in mine.
Forum: Leverguns
I lived in a duplex condo arrangement. One shared wall and the next building was 15' away.
Forum: Leverguns
If you don't care about MV, a 20" Rossi will push as-cast dead soft 358156 HPs out the tube with less sound than the hammer falling. Just cover your micro-loads with COW and let fly.
A subsonic...
Forum: Leverguns
The original Maxxim Silencer (tm) was a factory catalog option on Winchesters before the .gov got stupid.
Forum: Leverguns
That's the one. But now that you know my haunts I may have to kill you. ... Fortunately, I'm easy to spot when I'm working... I'm the one in a kilt wielding a G3 and a Gladius.
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Forum: Leverguns
The 22nd annual Memorial Weekend Wyoming Weapons Collectors Gun Show had... more Leverguns than Black Guns or Bolts. (More handguns than everything, but RACKS of Levers... from OMG OEM NOS to Truck...
Heck, I even had great luck with 2400 in the 45-70 with the old Lyman data.
With the exception of my LilGun load, 2400 is my goto Powder for everything I load. That "contender only" load sounds like a peach in my Rossi 1892...
Forum: Military Rifles
You reload it by sliding in new OEM pre-loaded barrel tubes. Pretty quick actually. Resupply can be a problem tho...
Forum: Military Rifles
Look up their video on using the system on Unmanned Combat Arial Vehicles (UCAV's). The clusters of loaded barrels end up working like an ink-jet print-head allowing the UCAV operator to paint...
Forum: Military Rifles
The wood is obviously NOT original, but I don't know the make. Haven't torn it apart yet.
The Bolt is non-matching - but that's typical of CMP guns. (I'm guessing it's CMP because of the...
Forum: Military Rifles
+ 144 rounds of CMP Greek Ball, 44 clips - and NO PAPER... $1200 total. (so much for "replace the truck" money...)
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Forum: Our Town
Preferably 99%+ mixed with nitromethane and ammonium-nitrate prill and aluminum lake...
Makes a nice Lake at that...
Forum: Our Town
The difference between what you did and what the AccuRzR does is that his tool "bumps" the soft lead to better fit the bore (all .22s are undersized).
The rest of the nose tools are not there to...
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