Size as little as you can get away with. The only reason I size is to lube the boolit. I keep promising myself to use the powder coat stuff I've already purchased. For powder coating I will only seat...
Type: Posts; User: Pilgrim
Forum: Cast Boolits
Size as little as you can get away with. The only reason I size is to lube the boolit. I keep promising myself to use the powder coat stuff I've already purchased. For powder coating I will only seat...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Browning BLR (old style with the ugly magazine), rebarreled with a 22" Douglas premium, mid weight barrel. That original 18.5" Browning barrel was LOUD and grossly inaccurate. Now the RCBS 35-200...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I started casting way back. First WW were smelted in my electric pot. Miserable job that way but it worked. Eventually, I found a plumbers pot and a heavy gauge cast iron pot for smelting. Much...
Forum: Leverguns
LOOK THE RIFLE OVER CAREFULLY BEFORE PUTTING YOUR MONEY DOWN !!! I wanted the rifle in .45 Colt and ran across one at gun show being carted up & down the aisles. Bought it, $400 IIRC and took it...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Been a long time since I've posted. Lots of reasons why, but...being older and hopefully much older to come, I have a life time plus supply of pretty much everything. The only thing I might run out...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I bought an BLR in .358 10 or 15 years ago and it had an 18 1/2 " barrel. Lordy was it loud! Good thing I replaced that short chippy thing with a 22" medium wt. Douglas barrel. Balances better,...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Yeah, I could do those things, but shouldn't have to. Buying a rifle knowing I don't want or like the configuration just doesn't set right for me. Replacing the barrel, fitting, chambering, etc will...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I'd like to buy an AR. No real reason except "just in case", I guess. How come virtually all of the AR 15 makers only make 16" barrels ? How come nearly all of the AR 10 makers think 18" barrels is...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Anybody have any experience with one of these .22's ? I pretty much demand accuracy out of all my rifles, but have no clue re these .22 rifles. Wanted one for many many years, but...I bought a used...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've been reloading for about 50 years. When I started, reloading manuals were hard to find and supplies weren't stocked by most LGS's. That's changed a bunch since those days. We were considered a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I buy white (or light yellow) flannel at whatever store I'm near when I want patches I cut the flannel into ~2" strips and then cut the strips into 2" squares. The reason for those 2 particular...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Folks have hinted at it but the velocity question is pretty easy to answer...1) If the rifle is mounted on wheels you can most likely have the flatest shooting .450 NE in history, 2) If you have to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Taught myself. Learned to shoot while hunting or wandering in the hills around my home. My father had no interest in teaching me...strange as in his earlier years (before I was borne) he was a world...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Our politicians at the federal level routinely, with knowledge beforehand, violate the constitution. Where did all of the "presidential" authority come from (Presidential orders, etc.)? For sure it...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Rattlers are strange...I live right on the north side of the Yakima river. My south property line is the river in fact. On the south side of the river (Horse heaven Hills) there are a fair number of...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Tin gets "cooked out" of linotype as it gets used. The printers that used lino had to add tin periodically to bring the alloy up to snuff. I suspect the lino you have is well used and may be very low...
Forum: Cast Boolits
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HUH? .358 isn't .308 brass? Where did that revelation come from?? I've been making .358 brass from .308 for probably 15 or 20 years. Amazing that my errors haven't destroyed me...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Out here in the NW we used to hunt for them around cottonwoods. I think the critters grow anywhere there is cool weather and moist soil. Wish the wife liked them. Since she doesn't I've stopped...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I am damn near ignorant when it comes to the ar rifles. That being said, I am studying up on available AR-10's but have only found DPMS offering the 24" barrel. Everybody else seems to be stuck at...
A few months ago I stumbled onto a website that had a "bazillion" s&w police trade-ins. Essentially all were .38 Spec. or .357 magnum. All models from mod 10 up thru 686's. The site also had revolver...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
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SportEars work good for me. No problem with directional identification. BUT they are spendy! I use them for hearing aids around the house and "whenever" in addition to range and...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'm on my 2nd set of SportEars. Bought the 1st pair at a SCI convention some 8 or so years ago. Yeah, they are spendy, those were $1900, but they are tuned to match your hearing capability, just like...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you stand on your tippy toes like a ballerina when you touch it off, it'll prolly screw you into the ground a couple inches. Might help you keep from sliding around in the mud along them Alaskan...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
You might wanna consider boolit impact point in addition to your quest for the biggest bang load. It is sorta nice when hunting to have the boolits go where you point 'em. The difference between...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Larry - Give Oehler a call and talk to him. Very nice guy, easy to talk to, and not afraid to tell you how he does stuff. He doesn't have any fear you're gonna take business away from him so he'll...
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 |