Looks like you went with the grooved moulds. Good choice, you won't have to rough them up with files to keep the bullet from shooting out of the paper when you use smokeless powder. I should have...
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Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Looks like you went with the grooved moulds. Good choice, you won't have to rough them up with files to keep the bullet from shooting out of the paper when you use smokeless powder. I should have...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
The 6.5 Creedmore is no faster than a 308 or 30/06. It has just been hyped that way.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
You are liable to start a fire with a cotton ball unless you are shooting in a very vegetation clear area.
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Paper patch will polish a rough bore (it did in my Zasava 7.62x39) , but it takes about a 100 rounds minimum. Use printer paper or typing paper as the clay in the paper helps polish the bore.
If...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
They are Sage Outdoors gas checks. NOE and White label lube carry them.
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
As Jedman said:"Absolutely, Shot placement and using a proper bullet are most important.
Jedman ." There is no rifle that you could carry into the field and shoot from your shoulder that will...
5.5 gr. of Unique. I know it isn't listed in that Lyman manual, but it will give you 750 to 800 fps, and if you are punching paper that is all you need. If you don't have Unique 4.5 of Red Dot...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I would try to line up two or three close together with their chest cavities in line. You might get lucky and bring home a bunch with little expenditure of lead and powder. Good luck. Brodie
Forum: Special Projects
That marbles/lyman folder looks more like the sight on my 10/22 and I have been looking down it since 1966.
Forum: Special Projects
Take the rear sight off of a Ruger 10/22 rifle. They are low, fold down, and fast as all get out when you learn how to use them.
Forum: Special Projects
Cut the legs off of old Levis, or cut the arms off of heavy work shirts, and sew them up fill with sand.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The action appears to be the same as my custom 40-70. Mine is a Remington RB from a Sweedish military rifle.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
fcvan, load that RBH 30carbine to 32/20 velocities and you will have a much more pleasant revolver. Brodie
Accurate Bullet Moulds should have a mold for that rifle. You might try them.
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Cast your bullets from pure lead. That is what works in my Whitworth, and they leave hexagonal holes in the paper.
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
RCBS makes a mold for the 43 Spanish that drops at .446 with pure lead. It has grease grooves, but I have paperpatched many and shot them in my .451 Whitworth muzzle loader. If it had to be smooth...
Forum: Completed Deals
I have always wanted to buy one myself, and I think I will take this package that you offer.
PM to follow.
Sixpointfive;
Not that so much, but if the bullet is too small it will not enter the rifling straight. I understand that the model 99 has a very short or almost non existent throat, but the fact...
If the bullet fits the throat of your rifle then 16gr. 2400 will probably be a good load. If the bullet does not fit the throat no load is going to shoot well. I suggest that you make some dummy...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Cast bullets have successfully been loaded and fired with 100% function in: M1 garand, M1Carbine, Remington 760, M!A. Why not in an AR? All of the above are gas operated mechanisms, and no lead...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Try patching a fired case so that the patched bullet just slides into the case . You may have to bell the mouth of the case first.
As to alloy, since the velocity will be under 1500 fps I would...
If you could get a barrel with a slower twist , 1-10 or so The CM might make a decent cast bullet gun, but with these 1 to 7 and 1 to 8 barrels velocities have to be very low to retain accuracy.
In...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I started using shooting glasses for rifle shooting after I had a series of case splits with some surplus M2 ball ammo. The gasses striking me in the face got old real quick. That was in the mid...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Edwin, If you are patching to .308" you may be shooting a bullet that is a bit too small. I like to patch to +- .002 to .003 " larger than the throat (or leade) of the barrel. When fired to bullet...
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