Chat AI is a crock, never trust it. It lies without batting an eye.
Hard fact, from a member of the Hodgdon family, a friend, H110 is the exact same powder as W296. Bought from the same maker,...
Type: Posts; User: MtGun44
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Chat AI is a crock, never trust it. It lies without batting an eye.
Hard fact, from a member of the Hodgdon family, a friend, H110 is the exact same powder as W296. Bought from the same maker,...
Forum: Military Rifles
Larry is right. I love my 7x57 and this isn't it. I like and use ARs, too, but the action length just won't let
you have the powder capacity needed.
Use an AR-10 platform, and you can sort of...
Forum: All about knives
Cold Steel's SRK-C is a current favorite, especially with the CPM 3V steel version. The full sized SRK with the standard SK-5 carbon steel is pretty darned good, maybe a bit big for EDC. They...
Forum: Military Rifles
My best results were with Lee 405 HB mold, cast soft and 10-12 gr Unique in original Trapdoors. Barrel dimensions
are all over the place. I had terrible luck with anything else, barrel too big,...
paul-h I know that post is pretty old, but for you and anyone else
-adjust the Dillon powder measure body mount die downward to let the
expander go deeper into the case. This is just a setup...
Forum: Our Town
Glad your home is OK. Some of those coastal roads will have to be moved outward,
or move a million cubic yards of rock if you want them back where they were.
We are well and truly passengers...
Forum: In Remembrance
Sad. I have three of his reloading machines on benches now, have owned others.
RIP, sir.
Bravo Zulu.
Bill
Forum: Our Town
Great to hear from you, Jeff.
Best wishes for your country....hope this one isn't too bad.
Let us know more when you can.
Bill
Forum: Our Town
Very sorry to hear this sad news.
If you don't need the money from sales, just let them stay as long as you can shoot them,
let the wife deal with it later. Let's hope a WHOLE LOT later.
Make...
Forum: Our Town
If you did the same prep and fertilizer for the soil wouldn't it be about the same?
Not seeing what the bales bring to the party.
Bill
Forum: Our Town
Missouri law says that your vehicle is an extension of your home, so having a gun in the
car is legal, loaded, whatever, for any adult legally owning the gun. Put in the glove box
or console or...
Forum: Our Town
Thanks guys. I have all the info on the course of fire, could not find the Transition Target II,
but I think Montana Charlie has it.
Also, buried in the OPNAV there is a mention of "using...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Illegal to put a butt stock on a pistol.
Bill
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
CAREFULLY peening it back with a polished hard piece of flat steel held in position
and tapped with a small brass hammer (shiny lathe bit stock is good) can do a
surprisingly good job of pushing...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Never try a wooden dowel. They can (and have) break on a long diagonal and
then the two pieces wedge tighter than a tick....... sometimes impossible to
remove without drilling.
Doesn't look...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Typically R8 and 5C. Look up on the web for pix, don't look anything much
like each other, you can easily decide which you have from a pic.
R8 is for mill chuck, 5C for lathe chuck.
Bill
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Diameter is ultra critical. Even .001 under factory "minimum allowable" diam and they will not
function. They MEAN IT when they set that min diam.
Bill
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I always get a chuckle at all the folks who are assuming that this is
caused by bad brass. Bull hockey.
To find the cause...... go look in the mirror.
Double charged with powder.
Seen...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Happens with light loads. Primer pops out under pressure like a piston,
pushing case hard forward, in some instances even setting the shoulder
back slightly. Then the pressure isn't enough to...
Forum: Our Town
Be careful to set that phaser on "stun" before you touch it.
:kidding: :bigsmyl2:
Bill
Forum: Our Town
Taking on a rifleman with a handgun is very, very dangerous business.
We had a crazy guy in a small town in Missouri, maybe 10 years ago start killing folks in
the town square with an AK. A...
Forum: Our Town
Been there nearly every year for the last 35 or so. It is an amazing and wonderful place,
for certain.
If you don't already have reservations for camping, good luck if you plan on going before...
Forum: Our Town
ATF hates gun owners, wants to do EVERYTHING they can to make it more
difficult, expensive, time consuming and inconvenient to buy a gun.
Any time they can hassle someone in the business in any...
Forum: Our Town
Does anybody know for sure what target they use for pistol
qualification in basic training for USN?
A young friend has committed to join this fall, wants me to help
him train up so he can do...
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 |