My 1910 works similiar....it will hook the front notch but won't stay or hold under spring pressure. Take the spring retainer off and then the safety hooks the notch and you can rotate the barrel...
Type: Posts; User: Ragnarok
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
My 1910 works similiar....it will hook the front notch but won't stay or hold under spring pressure. Take the spring retainer off and then the safety hooks the notch and you can rotate the barrel...
Is that stuff not even suitable for pop-gun round ball loads?....I know nothing about blank brass
I had thought about converting it to 11.25mm Italian
My sister recently took up reloading....went searching for .45 Colt brass and somehow or other bought some Star-Line five in one brass.....She realized this was not the .45 Colt brass she seeked and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I was sorting some of the scrap lead I have on hand. There are some interesting strips of 'lead' that I thought were plumbers lead but are marked auto body solder after inspection. A bit of research...
Forum: Military Rifles
That's not the first time I've seen a coil spring in place of the V spring in an Enfield extractor...Maybe an India thing as a friend's RFI rifle had such a rig-up with a tiny roll pin to keep the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
That's the answer I need!....I won't exceed 400 and hope for the best
Thank you
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
...How much heat can a small coil gun spring take??
I painted some gun parts with a heat bake engine paint and it dawned on me that I didn't remove a small coil spring from the revolver...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I pulled my M1916 trigger guard of this style off and looked out of curiosity....I can see the pin on mine top and bottom....the top of it is on the flat behind the mag box about even with the right...
There were/are a lot of longer 9mm/.38 'long' auto pistol cartridges. The 9mm Browning Long, Colt .38acp and it's hotter brother .38Super, 9mm Largo, 9mm Steyr, etc
I had owned a Llama .38 Super...
Yep....that's the crack I look for every time I pull the slide. I don't shoot the Tomcat much and stick to American made .32acp ball ammo when I do. They are good shooting little guns though....I...
Early Tomcats had skinny slides..then they came with wider slides. The heavier slide supposedly to mitigate the frame cracking issues. I own one I bought new some years back and it has the wider...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Not a Pedersoli M1861 but a Euroarms M1861 that's like 2002 vintage. I bought it used a year or so back.
I really am not competent or knowledgeable with the three band .58 caliber rifle musket and...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Plinking and casual shooting for my musket cap usage experience.....cap goes POP gun goes BANG bullet hopefully lands at or near point of aim sort of shooting
My 'cap strength test' tool is an...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
CCI made six wing caps years ago and some folks experienced fragments blown off those(I have some and never have had any such issues)....then went with four wing 'reenactor' caps that apparently were...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I think the grease works by virtue of instead of squirting dry burned BP soot out the breech and locking everything up in a few shots....the grease gets pushed out instead.
My best guess is that...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Emmert's lube is home made stuff....should be a formula in the boolit lube section. It's beeswax, salt free crisco, and I used rancid canola oil. My lube is mixed thick with more wax than the normal...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yep....My IAB is closer to .56 caliber than it is to .54 caliber. I slugged it at .555"/.556" makes bullet choices scarce.
The best advice I've received about shooting percussion Sharps rifles is...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Drop a bullet in and pour in powder...like I said...mine would hold in excess of 100 grains for a full chamber and I did NOT shoot that. I just make cartridges.
My guess is you will have really...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
.54 paper cartridge gun?
If it's like my IAB Sharps it could hold 100 plus grains behind a bullet!! However the manual that came with it says max load is 80gr 2F...no recommendation for a bullet...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I own a M1903 Winchester. Good shooting little rifles.
No problems finding ammunition however the only game in town for .22 Winchester Automatic is Aguila....prices range from $15 to $20 per box of...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Let me know what diameter ball you need the weight on and I will look it up in my chart
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
My issues with an IAB .54 carbine were/are it's oversize bore diameter....makes it not compatible with Pedersoli size bullets unless you have a custom mold made for Sharps type oversize bullets. I...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I went shooting with a surplus Colt Police Positive Special .38 years ago.....was sitting at the kitchen table wiping the old revolver down and heard a 'tink'?....It was the front sight hitting the...
Forum: Leverguns
I paid like $1400 for a Browning 1886 SRC purchased from a Cabela's gun library in 2012. Used with box in fine shape and no/pre safety version....near as I can determine it's about 1992 vintage.
Forum: Leverguns
Factory standard Taurus/Rossi 20" .44 mag holds 10 shots in the tube...still has the plastic follower. An older .44-40 Rossi carbine with a steel follower holds 11 shots. An old original Winchester...
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 |