Bought a couple 80% with lower parts for something like $60 each. I'm 07/C2 but never had done one so I did just cause I could. Picked up the dimensions and pin hole locations from a factory lower...
Type: Posts; User: shortfal
Forum: Special Projects
Bought a couple 80% with lower parts for something like $60 each. I'm 07/C2 but never had done one so I did just cause I could. Picked up the dimensions and pin hole locations from a factory lower...
Forum: Our Town
The Lee push through dies are your friend. I've run thousands of 5.56 55 gr. I got from HiTech here in St. Louis over the years. Fine for blasting and they shoot better than one might think.
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Forum: Military Rifles
I do not think I saw it mentioned here. EVAPORUST. Awesome product.
Pete
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Bought some reloading items lately. A really neat find is a Lyman #45 lube/sizer WITH the original box. Heavy cardboard with metal corner reinforcements all in good shape. They sure do not make em...
Forum: Cast Boolits
True, probably more so if I heat and quench. Never tried that. Been casting straight lino Hitech coated and checked for my Sturmgewehr loads for the last 4 years or so. Overkill I guess but they work...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That seems to be a popular boolit for the 450 BM.
Pete
Forum: Cast Boolits
I just got a 450 Bushmaster upper for a AR. Thinking I'll run linotype bullets gas checked and Hitech coated.
Wondering if anyone could recommend a mold for that caliber.
TIA Pete
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
OK guys, I figured out what that case is. It's a Johnson Spitfire. A .30 Carbine case reformed to take a .223 boolit. The one I found that has the Lake City headstamp was obviously a GI case reworked...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
True here too. I load .223 well below 5.56X45 military velocity for blasting ammo. They still work the rifles just fine and hit the 100 and 200 yd. gongs with authority. 300 too for that matter!...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Thought about the Fireball but the difference in case diameter is what is really hard to figure. Is not the Fireball case head the same diameter of the .223? This case is smaller diameter but has the...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Was picking up my brass after shooting Sunday and found an odd ctg. case that I never saw before and do not see in any reloading manuals I have.
It appears to be made from a .223 case as it has a...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I always do in a vice on the Bridgeport. Thing is the barrel/action has to be clocked straight up then the barrel center found then drill/tap holes spaced as needed. The clocking can be an issue...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I've picked up a fair amount of the WC820 and knowing it is pulldown .30 Carbine powder and several powders listed for .30 Carbine are same as listed for 8Kurz I have shot a bunch of it in Kurz....
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Same thing, Sturmgewehr rounds.
I have Hornady as well as Privi jacketed bullets 125 (123?) grain. Last couple years been mostly shooting linotype cast in a NEI Handtools mold that replicates the...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Interesting re the 820. I've been using loads I worked up with it for the 8 Kurz, Good to hear it is same as Accurate #9. I find it knob Creek fairly often. Just 1 jug here or there.
Pete
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Wondering if the velocity of those 150-175 gr. ctg. loaded with #9 are comparable to what you would get with powders normally recommended for 30-30.
Pete
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thanks for the replies guys! I had not thought about the straight wall versus bottleneck difference. I'm looking forward to remembering to bring my chrono next range visit to see what kind of...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I have been loading my 8 Kurz with IMR 4227, A 1680 and W680 with good results. A fellow recently gave me 19 pounds of Accurate #9. I'm thinking it might be too quick for that caliber but did load 5...
Forum: Our Town
Hard to read all this without kind of tearing up. My girl LUCKY, Pit/Lab mix will be 10 this fall and has had 2 mast cell tumors and a carcinoma removed the last year and a half. All came out clean...
Saw mention of 9MM headspace here. Was looking for go/nogo dimensions for 9MM. Did not find so far. One loading manual I have state .750 CASE LENGTH for 9MM and another says .754. That said, I do...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Annealed 150 8 Kurz cases, Sized, trimmed, deburred, primed and loaded with WC820 and lino bullets hi tech coated and gas checked. Light crimp with Lee collet crimp to finish before loading on...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Interesting re the .45. I recently read quite a bit of info on 9MM. Much talk about 9MM cases that are "supposed" to be .750 pretty much never are. I checked a bunch of mine and did not find any...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Lacquer thinner!! Always have it in my body shop. Works great and dries fast. Cleans up my cases lubed with a mix of alcohol/lanolin just fine. A good degreaser for most anything.
Pete
Forum: Completed Deals
I'll take that cutter. Send me an address for PMO to shortfalstl@msn.com
Pete
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 |