Ive used redding products for a long time never with a complaint or problem. Ive talked with them several times on different things though and they were also very helpful.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Ive used redding products for a long time never with a complaint or problem. Ive talked with them several times on different things though and they were also very helpful.
Forum: Our Town
I believe you could use a 45-70 case in your 410 or 40-65 they are both 2.1 long so still under your 2 1//2 chamber. You could use the same or close to it powder charge but have a heavier load of...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Where some works well is as a release agent or resist for bedding and things of that sort.
Forum: Our Town
For patching the nail holes in the old roofing, Look at body solder and the tech for patching car bodies in the 60s. They would fill some pretty big holes with screen and 50-50 solder. For strength...
Forum: Cast Boolits
There is also the age old method of lapping the mould out. this increases the size and improves the roundness of the bullets. This process actually removes metal so go slow and measure often, once...
Forum: Our Town
I like the Tony Packos chilli dog sauce. Along with their pickle and peppers relish. Home town restaurant thats branched out some.
Where the standards calibration and iso things are Important to industry is parts made in one shop or factory have to fit with parts and pieces made in 3 or 4 others. The closer the tolerances are...
Forum: Our Town
The blue jays came back here a few days ago
Forum: Factory Rifles
Also remember annealing of the steel isnt the only thing that can happen when the fire dept comes in spraying cold water the steel can also be hardened becoming brittle.These changes cant be seen...
I would bet most reloaders never use any of the measuring jaws but the outside jaws. very seldom in side and almost never the depth laws either step.
When ISO calibrated all 4 jaws have to read the...
Forum: Our Town
The other issue with used galvanized roofing is the oxidation may make soldering harder.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
In also size before chamfer and deburring to make sure the mouth of the case is as round as possible. I use the wilson style tools. On handgun brass its trimmed when new or new to me. rifle brass is...
I would definitely look at the 148 grn wad cutters. Back in the day a lot of law enforcement issued snubbies carried them with good results.Another consideration might be to go down to one of the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I could do that in my radial arm, set a long screw in the action clamp in vise and then set stock on maybe one strap clamp on top to keep it from pulling off/shifting. may have to look at that. The...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I lay out front and back then put an angle plate on the lathe compound align with center in chuck and tail stock. then drill straight thru. Little more set up but its accurate, And I have the lathes...
Forum: Our Town
Im thinking know the counter top is an excuse to make sawdust because your getting low :kidding:
Forum: Our Town
Not a problem CF I enjoy hearing others projects. You will get a lot of fine sawdust there to flux with
Forum: Our Town
I had pulled most of the chestnut molding out of the original family farm house before Dad sold it. Made him a cane from it and the 2 aunts a set of candle holders. To remember the farm.
Cured...
Also check the spring washer if it has one they have been known to break and bind
Forum: Our Town
Found a disposable 9 X 13" aluminum baking pan 2 1/2" deep slid right under the bottom wheel and appears to be catching 90% of the chips. When some what full can slide it out and throw it all away.
Forum: Our Town
Its a Roll in vertical cut off saw for metals. When I bought it I had the vise up graded and the air feed system added. Ive since added a scale to the back of the table and an oil mist system to it.
Forum: Casting Equipment
When building a pot mass is your friend it holds heat and gives more to work with.
The solder pots on the can lines were 60 or 70 pounds and had cartridge heaters in the bottoms If I remember they...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Back when I was scraping and hand fitting i could feel .002 between 2 parts. Seeing was a different story .010 with out a comparison part. would have been a good day. On a scraped pattern I could see...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Ive always wondered if a fine screen around the needle valve up to top of pot would help If your valve base is 1" then and screen rolled to 1 1/4" with a ring top and bottom to support it. This would...
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 |