GONRA has "turned over" a set of blocks in a 4 jaw lathe chuck,
used a boring bar(s) to cut another cavity.....
Verks Just Fine! !!
Type: Posts; User: GONRA
Forum: Casting Equipment
GONRA has "turned over" a set of blocks in a 4 jaw lathe chuck,
used a boring bar(s) to cut another cavity.....
Verks Just Fine! !!
Forum: Casting Equipment
GONRA did same same thing as Sasquatch-1 for decades.
Wear one out? Just find another! !!!
Have Phun! !!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
El Cheepo GONRA has been using Range Brass forever....
Just do NOT use annealed (SOOOOOOOFT) "Burn Barrel" range brass!! !
Yikes !!
Forum: Swaging
GONRA sez - best to hava Harbor Freight Arbor Press For Dangerous swaging projects.
Make yer own dies on yer Harbor Freight Screw Cutting (hasa leadscrew) metal lathe....
THINK - be careful......
Forum: Swaging
Based on GONRA's experience (GOOD ! !!) with olde Dave Corbin
get a Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS and blast away....
If New Corbin does NOT offer the Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS...
GONRA sez - brassrat's primer can is REALLY olde!
SHOULD have lottsa collector value..... !!!
Forum: Reloading Equipment
targetshootr's loading area looks just like GONRA's younger Son's in our basement! !!
GONRA's is worse.....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Somewhere in GONRA's Junque Pyle
is a loose leaf folder of WW II era IMR 4831 data,
lot nrs, charge wt. etc. for is original application:
20mm Oerlikon auto cannon.
Forum: Cast Boolits
GONRA used 94 grain .358 inch diameter Lyman IDEAL U358242 cast boolits
for all sorts of locked breech .380 ACP loads/pistols.....
Then developed (with lottsa help from Corbin! !!)
swaged ~40...
GONRA only loads range pickup brass for semiautos, but, for wot it's worth, here goes:
For 9mm Luger, older RCBS dies hava small mouth entrance radius.
These do a nice "back to factory...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
GONRA sez - its like screwing in a spark plug -
Use FINGERS first to get started, then yer all set to finishup!!!
GONRA sez these are Collector Items.
Pleeeeeze don't "Pop 'em off" just for the hell of it.....
Forum: Gas Checks
GONRA as similar memories (?) to the various "Wilkes holy gas check stories" above.
Believe ready-to-go "holy gas checks" were sold.....
May have seen some ata Gun Show (remember those?) or got...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As previously, GONRA sez - keep Wife, 3 kids, 2 cats & hamster off into SLUMBER LAND whilst reloading.! !!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA sez - just make SURE "range pickup brass" hasn't gone thru the burn barrel !!
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
GONRA reminds ya'll - a "stuck bullet" in any blowback semiauto - KABOOM! !!
WATCHOUT! !!
GONRA's justa Collector/Tinkerer.
Used WW 231 for all (normal) auto pistols, aged collector items etc.
(Developed "loads to function" - NOT beat up the pistol !!)
BUT -Used Blue Dot for .44...
Forum: Swaging
GONRA sez - watch for COPPER .22 RF cases.
When they show up, are really easy to dehead, etc.
Forum: Swaging
GONRA sez the bullets pictured could be made on an
olde CH Swag-O-Matic press with home made dies.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Bazoo sez: "Wow, I had no idea making smokeless powder was within the realm of the home chemist. "
GONRA sez - it really ISN'T. Watchout! !!
Practical applications involve much larger...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
GONRA sez listen to dverna!
Loooong string!!
Forum: Our Town
EVENTUALLY - GONRA miked 'em all, stored in small labeled envelopes in a drawer.....
Forum: Our Town
GONRA sez - Reground / Rehardened Allen wrenches make small boring bars......
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Right after WW II Suburban Chicago's GONRA's Dad built a Rabbit Trap.
Gave Rabbits to our Plattdeutsch German Farmer neighbors for yummy hasenpfeffer......
Large freezers for Victory Garden...
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
Over the decades GONRA has found one should hava variety
of "bullet pullers" to satisfy the particular project needs ......
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 |