Bigslug...LOL....a rifle named Job. Love it.
My bore is so bad, I think cast is a forlorn hope at best. If I can get jacketed to perform to some degree of accuracy, I might try cast.
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Type: Posts; User: flintlocke
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Bigslug...LOL....a rifle named Job. Love it.
My bore is so bad, I think cast is a forlorn hope at best. If I can get jacketed to perform to some degree of accuracy, I might try cast.
Nobody...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thanks, I noticed the wide chamber mouth and had hoped by using GI '06 brass at .473 instead of 7x57 at .470 I would get away without case head ruptures. Maybe I'll even have to go to 6.5 Swede brass...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thanks for the comeback.
No, no, I had no intention of pushing pressures up. I just quoted the 50K as an indicator of the action's steel and design strength. With our modern powders and published...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
A late production Roller in 7mm I have acquired recently needs now to be shot. I guess it is a late one, "Remington Arms, pat date 1901", Frank DeHaas says that is late production smokeless steel....
Pirate, I have some experience with several trapdoors and a thought occurs to me...have you considered that you are jumping from 10 gr Unique to 12 gr, you are going right through the transitional...
I use 5.5 of Titegroup to push 180 gr wheelweights in my .38-40 Bisley, but best of all is the same load in 1873 Winchester, which turns in 2 1/2" groups at 100 yds...never bothered to chrono because...
I am not well qualified to comment..but here goes. 175 gr Lee, checked with Hornady's, basically unsized at .310", 2 coats of LLA. Win cases, Win LR, 27 gr of RL-7 (max load but published in Lyman...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
The price of .22 Rf has motivated me to wean the grandsons on off of their .22's and start them on centerfire with cast. I want to go with an 8x57 1904 Steyr Mannlicher as being accurate and goof...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Koger, Please do check back. I've got a bunch of old,old Barnes 195 gr jacketed and an unnumbered .287 mold that will throw a roundnose almost 1.5 inches long. Running the numbers, I'm no math whizz,...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I bought, sight unseen (yah, I know) a 7 x 57 Roller, likely a 1901 or 1902. Trying to think ahead a little with component and mold shortages being what they are...can anyone hazard an opinion as to...
Forum: Military Rifles
I'm certainly no authority on the subject, but I would be very surprised if you have a SAAMI .30-06. Some slugging, chamber casting, measuring, and fired brass will likely show you have a .303-06,...
Forum: Military Rifles
Hats off, a testament to your patience and craftsmanship.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
OK, thanks fellas, just as you predicted, the scrap was about 30% COWW and 50% old timey plumbing scrap.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I was given a large quantity 300# or more of lead scrap last year, varied sources, melted it down poured ingots, put it on a pallet and left it outdoors. In this wet winter the ingots show a...
Forum: Military Rifles
Terry, I've had several rifles with the old cupro-nickel jacket fouling in them...I was always deathly afraid of that toxic crap in Hatcher's Notebook. But I found that Bore Tech Eliminator will lift...
Forum: Military Rifles
My experiments don't fit your list very well..but 23 gr of 5744, Fed Primer, 175(?) Lee gas check(.324 dia.) gave me 1600fps (28.5" bbl 1904 Steyr Mannlicher just .320" groove dia). Wheel weights...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The attack capabilities of a tender young grouse are underestimated by novice hunters. Who knows how many people are maimed or killed each year? So, I do what I have to do when in a tight spot,...
Forum: Military Rifles
I have an 88 and a 1904 Steyr, and have slugged a number of very early German and Austrian sporting rifles...my findings correspond with Winston 10's posts...I have NEVER measured any groove diameter...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I apologize, I should have said Canuckians, or whatever the preferred term for your soldiers.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
As Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. Yes, nervous about stressing the Forster Co-ax needlessly with a brisk snap over center die adjustment, I moved the resizing operation to the hulking...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
The Ross is famous for tight tolerances...maybe that's why Tommy wasn't too fond of it in the mud of France. Smoking a dummy round that had been re sized full length and trying to chamber it...no go,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just throwing this out there...I've got the sister to yours, and in a pretty comprehensive test, mine will produce low bullet run out ammo just as good as my Forster Co-ax.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
That is a pretty dramatic demonstration...thanks for sharing your experience. I think everybody pretty well agrees...let autoloaders autoload. But bolt guns? You could'a cleaned out my wallet on that...
Forum: Military Rifles
The Finns who developed one of the most accurate military rifles of the last century from the Mosin Nagant action...went almost exclusively with the hex receiver...and that is all I need to know...
And that gentlemen, is why I come to castboolits for real solutions from people who know their craft. So many people on the internet have much more experience typing than shooting. Thanks so...
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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 |
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