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I have a “new-to-me” Gen 1 Contender with a MGM 10” 30 REECE barrel. And, I have a 165 grain SAECO Mould #315.
Is this a workable combination for paper and/or soda can punching...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Greetings to all.
I have a “new-to-me” Gen 1 Contender with a MGM 10” 30 REECE barrel. And, I have a 165 grain SAECO Mould #315.
Is this a workable combination for paper and/or soda can punching...
Forum: Cast Boolits
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I would like to meet up with some Casters close by to Johnson City. I have some good moulds but no longer have capability to melt lead.
PM me and lets see if we can establish a...
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Please, would someone with the above issue of Handloader Magazine copy same and send it to me
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I have just acquired a 69a rifle from the widow of a dear friend which has not been fired since 1977, according to my friend. Too my dismay, I find that the safe/fire switch does...
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At the risk of a serious faux paux, can anyone suggest a load to fit the title parameters?
I have fired 250 rounds of a well known factory ammo and I am very impressed and happy...
Forum: Rimfire Area
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Generally speaking can a person expect minute -of- squirrel or beer can, clay pigeon and etc? Of course assuming the shooter is doing his/her part. Not shooting at paper for any scores or...
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Is the RWS 460 magnum air rifle identical to the Diana 460 magnum air rifle. Midway sells the RWS brand at $563.00 and Pyaramid sells the Diana brand at $400.00. Do a internet search for...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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I am primed and ready to buy a 30Badger bbl but nobody is selling. That means “ have someone make it”. Is this a “stub” job or a MGM or ???. Talked with one barrel maker (unnamed)...
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Back when I was at helicopter school, Ft Walters, Texas, I used a Benjamin 177 pump to shoot Tarantula Spiders in front of my quarters. My best day was four of those badgirls in three hours and three...
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Way back before I retired I tried to sell or trade with the local metal recycling business. They did not want the spent primers. Just thirty months ago the scrap people in Ft Meyers, Fla, did’nt want...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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I have on/hand a 223cal 14” Contender barrel with a factory brake installed that has not been fired since 1991/2(?) because it wakes the dead and deafens the alive when fired....
I do not know anything about the scope that you have. What I do know is that anything Kahles produces is “top of the heap” stuff. It don’t get any better than Kahles. Lucky you.
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I am presently using a small Hornady branded electronic scale. It works but it is not doing what I want it to do. It turns itself off between uses and requires a lot of time and effort to get it...
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I was shooting my Super 14 22match Contender and was happy as a clam when this shooter came over and offered me his 223 bbl with a brake plus $100.00 for my my 22 bbl. Like a dumbbutt I did the swap....
Forum: Cast Boolits
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I had a neighbor that cast the 452424 boolit for me. I remember that he talked about the crimp groove and it’s impact on firing in my Ruger Black Hawk. We liked to shoot at fireplace logs....
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0.452 is what comes out of my Star sizer and the product has never failed to load in any of mine or my friends 1911’s. It works for me.
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First off, I do not have a brass mold and based on your experience with this subject mold I do not want one. I am an old guy and I do not handle frustration with the grace and calm as I did when I...
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What you talking about? A 1911 in some caliber other than 45acp? That is blasphemy and will not be tolerated. LOL. That’s all I got.
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What is the avowed purpose of sorting the brass by headstamp? There are a heaping bunch of answers to your question all of which are valid to a degree and each has a heaping bunch of adherants. As...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Back when I was younger I used a 242 gr cb flat nose out of a Marlin 1894. One shot and done. It’t miller time.Don’t need no stinkin j-words with holes.
But that’s just me.
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A good friend two houses down used 2400 in his old bolt action mauser converted to 45-70 guv for at least nine years until cancer got him. He never mentioned using any other powder in those nine...
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You do good work and a lot of it.
I am an old guy and my living situation does not allow for a massive quantity of loading manuals. Your work has actually brightened my day/life.
I pray for...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
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Thank you all for responding to my question as above.
From the responses I have decided that, although the Jr3 press would probably do the job, the potential for diasaster was a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
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Decided to start prep work on a whole bunch of mil surp 7.62 brass ( probably fired in machine gun of some sort). Will my RCBS Jr3 handle the resizing job? Would not want to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I should be so lucky.
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