I spoke to Martyn on the phone and as luck would have it he comes up to Alberta every summer for a BP shoot to a town 12km south of me. Better yet.
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I spoke to Martyn on the phone and as luck would have it he comes up to Alberta every summer for a BP shoot to a town 12km south of me. Better yet.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Update I've cut the brass back to 1.905 as I figured they where being squeezed in the chamber by the lead. Now I can get a .600 ball friction tight in there. Waiting on a LEE .600 ball mold to plink...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
In the prairies with windchill and hoar frost it can get brutal. Deer are easy to locate just look for steam coming out of the willows where they are bedded.When you push these patches the deer stand...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Figured the shell length had to stay around 2" to fit the action. Happen to know the Snider action outside diameter and thread size? Thought I may get a take-off shotgun barrel installed if It won't...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
What length shell? Do you load smokeless or BP for it ?
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have a 1867 MKII** I set out to make a small game shot load for. CBC 24ga brass cut to 1.95" annealed and sized primed with Fed large pistol magnum primers /60gr FG/ 1/8" 20ga cork wad pushed down...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Try hunting in -50F blood freezes before it hits the snow.
Forum: Swaging
Are WW's not a little hard for Snider use? I will be getting one from my Uncle's estate sometime this summer.
Forum: Leverguns
Can't that one be made from 45-70 brass FL sized? Be nice if they ran some .35 Winchester too. Or .577 Snider
Forum: Leverguns
I have a 1895 in .303 British as well with the ebony forend tip 28" barrel
Forum: Leverguns
The thinnest brass are Starline ,then Winchester and last Remington.I can use a .429 220gr GC in my original 92 but only with Starline and Winchester brass. RE#7 is the powder for the 44-40 in a 92.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The old wives tale of the .30 carbine not penetrating chi-com winter clothing is BS and has been proven with frozen denim /wool and ballistic gel out to 200 yards.Shooting them past that range still...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
https://www.businessinsider.com/ak-47-wound-over-an-m4-2015-12 My buddies daughters moose dropped dead after 3 /123gr SP's from a CZ 527 7.62x39.The last two rds weren't really...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My dad shot a dozen or so Ontario WT's and 3 problem black bears with a .222 and my 55gr SP handloads.One round per customer most under 100 yards.
Forum: AirGuns
Avoid Spanish,Turkish and Chinese guns.Buy quality German ,Czech or British.I run RWS 34/.22 and HW80K/.22 both full power and kits to smooth them out.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Mine is in .270 win miserable/impossible to load and inaccurate with green or brown Hilti gun blanks. His former partner had a better design where the case was two piece steel that screwed apart.JMO
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I use a socket extension in a GP11 case filled with H20 ,brass sitting in the correct shellholder on a small piece of plywood on a concrete floor with a towel under it for the H20.One wack with a...
Forum: Vintage Ammo
A 28ga is a solid 40 yard upland game gun with handloads.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Unless using a .22 lr with a CB longs or pellet pistol .........no grouse shooting while big game hunting.
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 |