There is no "standard practice" date. The Chinese are still sending us lead paint in products for an example.
Type: Posts; User: Brad Phillips
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
There is no "standard practice" date. The Chinese are still sending us lead paint in products for an example.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I took a 20 lb. propane tank, took the valve off and rinsed it out with water. Cut it in half and then cut a 2" 'ish ring off the top side and welded it to the bottom off my new "smelter" to act as a...
Forum: Leverguns
Mine does the same. Cases have been salvageable so far. It is fairly old #N017xxx, 25 years or so??
Forum: Our Town
Had to turn mine in when I rotated back.
Four WW2 M-1 Garands ( stocks have dimples from seating rounds in clips) , WW2 1911a1, one SKS, a broomhandle and Star pistol with paperwork (great uncle)....
Forum: Factory Rifles
A little "quiet" time is rejuvenating for sure !!
Forum: Military Rifles
I bought a yugo sks a few years back. Shot 6-8" off. Got to looking at it, and it must have fallen sometime and the rear sight was bent. Got a replacement from Numrich and it is a shooter now.
Have a field grade 1911 on the way from the CMP. Called last Thursday, just waiting..
Came in Ithaca frame and RR slide.
Have had a few, good news, they are like AK's they just run and run. Not pretty, but they just lean forward and work like a draft horse.
Recoil operated stuff could be affected, gas operated should not. The M-60 fires from an open bolt and is gas operated.
Forum: Leverguns
I have my great uncles 88. A .308 with a Weaver K 2.5 60-B on it. Made in 1958.
I have not shot it in a few years, need to get it out and shoot it. He moved from Iowa to Texas after WWII. I have...
Sorry. My reading comprehension missed the transfer part. That is what I get for jumping without looking ?
I guess the $250 for an unfired G19 and extras threw me. Yes, once bought it would be...
Bought back an unfired pistol at a lowball rate. Twice the money on one gun? Good job?
Forum: Group Buy Results
I was in till I thought about a lack of crimp goove.
Forum: Leverguns
I had a gunsmith drill and tap for a Marbles tang sight. Works awesome.
Forum: Leverguns
I have an '89 Marlin in .32-20. Came from Montana, bought from a sheep herder before I got it.
Rough condition, octagon barrel cut down, magazine cut down, bad wood, and barrel was nasty. But for...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I used rejected interior door parts for a bullet block. But you could use a 2x4 with holes drilled to get by.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Weight and accuracy are your friend. Lighter boolits may work but you will have to hit them high in the back to get a sure knock down.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sounds like the herds we used to shoot near Ackley, Iowa. Three or four herds of 25 Buff's. Targets roughly 2 feet tall and 3 feet long, with a two inch foot that ran the length of the target.
I...
Forum: Leverguns
Just bought a 1895 GBL .45-70 for the Deer.
Had an 1889 Marlin in .32-20 re-lined and re-stocked.... So it is "half" new. Was in rough shape, no real collector value. Bad wood, cut down barrel and...
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 |