Great idea!
I keep all my loading manuals and purchase older manuals I don't have. Keep them in one grouping with the 'new stuff' at the top and the older section all together in the lower...
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Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
Great idea!
I keep all my loading manuals and purchase older manuals I don't have. Keep them in one grouping with the 'new stuff' at the top and the older section all together in the lower...
Forum: Military Rifles
Jugulater, the longer barrel rifles were all initially chambered for 8x50R Mannlicher (not to be confused with 8x50R Lebel). The switch to 8x56R was effected around 1931 and all the rifles so...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
For all my new rifle brass, I use a flash hole de-burrer and uniformer. It gets rid of the burrs on the inside of the case from the flash hole being punched and makes the flash hole a uniform size. ...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
The Speer # 8 manual has some rather exciting loads for 158 grain cast lead bullets with slower powders and impressive (1000-1250 fps) velocities. I have noted these loads have been mitigated in...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have an excuse. I'm old and my drive belt slips.
But how did that micrometer end up on top of the toilet tank?
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
Regarding "Who was the best?"
In the words of Chris (Yul Brynner), "I wouldn't want to live on the difference".
Forum: Military Rifles
Today, I received 100 pieces of new, unprimed, unfired, Boxer type cases in 8x57 (Mauser). They're made by PPU and sold out of Graf's. PPU also makes 7.5x55 Swiss, ammo and brass. Just a thought.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
First conversion was .303 British to 6.5x53R (Mannlicher). Mainly requires shortening and neck sizing case a bit. Annealing helps, too.
Current - second - conversion is changing .45 Colt brass...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I use various calibers of PPU ammunition and brass. By the way, PPU also sells empty brass. Some of the reloading outlets have it, and Grafs has it and I believe Midway as well.
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
Being on 'personal' terms with Almighty God, I have no doubt He created the Universe (referred to in the KJV and other English language texts of the era as 'the world') from nothing. When Almighty...
Matt's bullets make a 157 grain 'wadcutter' bullet in .38/.357 caliber. It isn't a full cylindrical shape like a proper wadcutter, but has a slightly smaller fore end and is loaded 'out' of the case...
I've shot .38 Special loads using 158 lead (as I remember) bullets and 10.0 grains of 2400. The revolver was a S&W M15 with four inch barrel. I didn't have a chronograph in those days, but the time...
Thanks. The stocks aren't Herrett's, although I tend in that direction as much as possible. I think they might be Fitz (not to be confused with J. H. FitzGerald) products, but they are marked 'Made...
These are three I have.
A 1917, cut down into a 'belly gun'. When I got it, it was devoid of much in the way of finish and the stocks looked like forty miles of bad road. The stocks on it now...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Other. Power Pistol to be precise. Power Pistol is very similar to Unique; just a touch slower. I do load it in everything I have in the 'handgun size' cartridge category. (Which includes .22...
I have loaded 158 grain RNL in a 9x19 case. There were loads given in the Lyman #45 manual (I think) and I tried them.
I have loaded 158 grain RNL in Super .38. Seems to like 2400 powder.
One...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I've used my WC 852 (lot number seems to be ?472287) in a bolt gun .308 Winchester with 165 grain Hornady Interlock bullets. It (the lot I have) is a bit slow for this combination. Accuracy was not...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
From experience and some reading of loading manuals, Lloyd Brownell's book Firearms Pressure Factors and some other stuff, like Hatcher's Notebook, then looking at the results of a Powley Computer, I...
I collect .32 ACP pistols from about 100 years ago. I bought a fair pile of factory (Prvi Partizan) ammo, but do some experimenting at times. Currently, I only have a (dwindling) supply of Hornady...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Like Jrap said, don't worry about trimming handgun cases (normally).
If the cases are a bit short, simply seat the bullets to the proper over all length. The internal volume of the case is...
Speer #14 Manual shows 7.2 to 8.0 grains of Power Pistol for 250 grain lead SWC. I use somewhere in there (lower end) for my .44 Special 2nd Model Hand Ejector without issue.
Unique has worked...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have both.
I have an old Ohaus (I think RCBS now) 5-0-5 scale, and a Lee balance that only goes to 105 grains. (I think the Lee scale is the 'Perfect' scale; unlike Lead Fred, I think it works...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Works well in standard level .44 Special loads (just over 7 grains of Power Pistol throw a 250 grain bullet from my Second Model Hand Ejector at about 825 f/s), 158 grain .38 Special (in the low 900s...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Called Dillon (phone) last Wednesday (the 7th of August) for a couple of parts for my XL650. Credit card was charged on the 9th (Friday, that would be) and the parts arrived Monday the 11th of...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
My 'clean up' down fall is two fold.
One is all the tool heads for various calibers. I have been 'fiddling' (in my head) with a set up to store the loaded tool heads somewhere OTHER than on the...
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 |