My caliber list has been getting smaller lately because I've trimmed down the number of guns that I own. I don't have any relatives that are still alive that I like well enough to leave them my guns...
Type: Posts; User: JakeBlanton
Forum: Cast Boolits
My caliber list has been getting smaller lately because I've trimmed down the number of guns that I own. I don't have any relatives that are still alive that I like well enough to leave them my guns...
Forum: Our Town
Probably the best use for a swimming pool. :)
How deep is it?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If the wheelweights were either lead or zinc, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Zinc still has a low enough melting point that if we got REALLY desperate, we could start developing procedures for...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Most people don't want to deal with someone who does not have a post count history and is not local.
Forum: Casting Equipment
As we used to say,
"When in doubt, use a bigger hammer"
Forum: Casting Equipment
Does that pot even *have* a ground? If the electrical plug just consists of the two vertical blade type connectors and no round one, then is does not have a ground. If so, then you are allowing the...
Forum: Our Town
I guess I gotta go with where I was born and raised -- Florida. Even though I don't get back there much these days. All the Yankess came south for the winter and then refused to leave. There went...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As an RVer, I'm pretty sure that any round I fire would go through the walls of my RV in addition to the walls of the next couple of RVs near me. I hope it never comes to that though since I don't...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
It's easier to stockpile the primers and powder for 30K rounds than it is to stockpile the lead for 30K rounds. Especially if you like shooting something like a .45-70 with heavy bullets. :)
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Apparently more than you might think. I've known a few people who after having had a couple of beers, will admit to having tried that ONCE. The internet wasn't around back then, so you didn't have...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Eventually, you will find that it is not big enough. That's just how it works. :)
Forum: Cast Boolits
So, your press comes with a casting pot, powder coating system, and a way to reform noses? I'm impressed! :)
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Does it also happen if you eat grapes? If not, I would be curious why the difference.
I've seen M1911s that would even feed an empty cartridge and others that pretty much only wanted 230 gr round nose bullets. The old Series 70 Colt I had would feed anything.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I just tumble lube since it is less space intensive.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I guess I'm even older-school. I'm partial to using a clay tablet and a stylus. If what you write is worth keeping around, you just put the tablet in a kiln for awhile.
Libraries tend to be a...
Scotland or Sweden -- doesn't matter since they are both too cold for this Southerner. Besides, that's only 500 miles, about the same distance as driving from Key West to Jacksonville. I suspect...
Not that I know of, but it's entirely possible that some of my ancestors were not that picky with respect to their dealings with Yankees and might have spread the genes around a bit. :) Family rumor...
Talk you out of it? OK...
Prolonged use of automated primer fillers will eventually have the following effects upon you:
baldness
loss of hearing
friends dying before you
weight gain...
Forum: Our Town
I quarried the stone for the original 15 Commandments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-WdAwVg9c
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
From the aspect of just hands-on time, it's difficult to beat the tumble lubing with alox or alox/JPW/MS -- especially if you are not having to resize them. Shake/swirl them a bit, dump them out on...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I was in a Wal-Mart last night and say a very large stack of toaster ovens for around $25. I think they were the Black & Decker models. I don't think it was a convection oven though.
Checking...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Nice flat surface on the top to double as a coffee cup warmer. Great idea. :)
Forum: Casting Equipment
For Florida, our mold warmers consist of just leaving the mold out in the sun for a bit.
Forum: Our Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4S7jafRlJ0
I can't see the original posts, so I guess I must have missed something.
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 |