If ya ever get to casting your own, you may want to try the Lee 340 grainer PCed.
Save yourself some lead casting that boolit too!
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Forum: Cast Boolits
If ya ever get to casting your own, you may want to try the Lee 340 grainer PCed.
Save yourself some lead casting that boolit too!
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Everyone says that meplat is where it is at to produce cast boolit effectiveness. That said, only one person here (years ago) and Paco K. have ever talked/bragged on the boolit.
Seems to be a lot...
Loosen the nut, turn the "shroud" a tad, tighten the nut, might fix that.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Working in Range Control I can only say +1 to that.
Being an officer at a nearby Private range I go to see MORE Unique things than I ever cared to.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Congratulations young lady . . .
You too PawPaw
Forum: Single Shot Guns
WildT wrote here on the site of his success with the 45 and 70 on paper and with Missouri Whitetails.
I had a Hunter (seems to be this gun with different locking arrangement) in 7-08 and except...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Can one form enough of a dimple/HP in a flat nose bullet with a pin centered in the middle of a top punch to have any impact on boolit expansion?
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
What is the greatest diemeter that you plan to work with.
IF it has to go through the headstock then that marks your smallest lathe.
Through hole is a limiting but most important factor.
My...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I do not see any mention of the 311440 or copies thereof.
Anyone using them?
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Cannons are just Large bore Rifles , are they not?
FIRST AND FOREMOST
THANX to one and all for you efforts.
Site SPIRIT is just one of the reasons that this site has NOT deteriorated like some others!
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT as they say!
I...
My Google Foo is not working very well apparently.
I am shooting 200 cast (of course) and HS-7.
I know it is middle of the road loading, but can NOT find the source I pulled the data from. I...
Forum: Cast Boolits
It will be launched out a 336.
I have one of the old group buy molds and the meplat seems small and it weighs in at 224 grains dressed and ready to attend the ball!
I do not think the velocity...
10.5 grains of my #105 (think Unique) out of a 1886 gave me right at 1100 fps on more than one occasion. That is pushing a 340 grain Boolit.
Precise at 106 yards from one measured 3 shot group.
...
45-70
22" barrel (18 if you info came from a guide gun!
350 grain cast BOOLIT for all loads
24.5 gr. 5744
14.0 gr.Red Dot
35 gr. IMR 3031
Interested for information on these loads only.
I...
To my personal opinion making competition fun is why one would go to a"SHOOT".
Yes, there is all that serious competition but that is for those other guys.
Methinks I would have to work on my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The "Powder Troll" told me that he has some 4198 and 3031 to play with now, so I am guessing that may be more to the proper burn rate.
I would sure like to have some more brass, but not sure I can...
Forum: Cast Boolits
WildT does NOT have a good selection of good powders for cast in the 45-70.
I am just coming off of knee replacement or this could be easier.
I will have to go to "Reload Central" and see what...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I replaced the plastic follower on a Rossi 92, but have not with the 1895!
Forum: Military Rifles
I have shot two of them.
One was sporterized and would work with .308 diameter bullets and decent enough with cast I carriend it hunt a couple of times with a cast load. Hunting, not shooting...
TbG
If ya don't mind my asking, where did you get that carbine stock?
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
One may want to cook the veggies to slightly less than done as they will cook some more as one is bringing the meat up to temp.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have the formula somewhere, but this will have to do since I can't find it!
https://www.dillonprecision.com/sight-correction-calculator.html
Most reports of Charter Arms Bull Dogs are glowing .
I got the lemon.
As I say the last time I got it out to shoot
AFTER (either 3 or 4) trips back to charter I THREW it to the back of the...
Just to prove how good he is, years ago I sent him a cylinder and it was back in about a week.
Note in the box said 'it is fine as it is I did not do anything to it'
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 |