Use flat base bullets.
Metford rifling does not like boat tail bullets.
Type: Posts; User: Japlmg
Forum: Military Rifles
Use flat base bullets.
Metford rifling does not like boat tail bullets.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
357 Sig brass is easier to reform than 40 S&W.
Run the case all the way (flush with the die bottom) into a 30-30 sizing die first (remove the decapping rod completely), to slightly reduce the case...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I have a T96 LMG, and eat up a lot of hand loaded 6.5x50sr Japanese.
I have a swager die that converts 308 brass (commercial brass works a lot better than military brass) to 6.5x50sr brass, with a...
Forum: Completed Deals
The frame/receiver is marked Model 15, but all three barrel assemblies are older model 12 or 13 assemblies.
They are the so call "Porkchop" barrel shrouds.
Model 14 and 15 barrel shrouds did not...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
The switch over date for corrosive to non-corrosive primers in 30-06 cartridges varied from arsenal to arsenal.
Thus, anything dated before 1952 should be treated as corrosive until proven...
Forum: Completed Deals
You realise that is a 58 rimfire cartridge.
Where are you getting 58 rimfire?
I have a first Allen conversion, that I have not shot in almost 60 years due to ammo being impossible to fine.
The...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You have to be carefull, not to attempt to open the action until the hammer is cocked part way to allow the firing pin to retract.
If you don't, sooner or later you will break off the tip of the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Do you have a cat?
Especially a medium or long fur cat?
If so, bush your cat, and save the hair, it makes wonderful case filler for all black powder cartridges, when you are using smokeless powder....
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
If you do load smokeless into any large capacity black powder cartridge case, you will need to use a filler, to keep the smokeless powder down at the bottom of the case next to the primer.
If you...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Way back when I was a teenager (1960's), I bought a Remington Rolling Block in 43 Spanish for about $13.00.
Soon afterward I bought an entire sealed case of 1000 43 Spanish cartridges (for 2 cents a...
Forum: Military Rifles
Try necking a 50 BMG down to 338, as you can get 4000 fps that way!
I know, as I've done it, keeping pressure levels to that of a normal military loading of the 50 BMG.
But, you better use solid...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Well, they were lined in the first place, going from 58 Rimfire to 50-70.
Relining would be the way to go.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I use 215 grains of WC860 under both Ball and API in my AR-50.
I get about 1 inch groups at 300 yards; by weighing every powder charge to +/- 0.1 grain, and weighing the projectiles, segregating...
Forum: Military Rifles
Time to turn that one into a wall hanger.
Sorry, but the repair would be costly, and of very questionable as to reliability.
Forum: Military Rifles
It goes a lot farther than above.
On early production T38 rifles and carbines (manufactured before the early 1920's), the parts were match by a Assembly Number, not the Serial Number.
If the...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
WC846 (BLC-2) works fine, and it is cheaper than 4895.
Forum: Military Rifles
Hate to rain on your thoughts, but the cost of all the parts you will need to turn that T38 barred action into a complete rifle, will far exceed the value of the completed rifle.
Yes, Liberty Tree...
Forum: Military Rifles
My son has:
22 LR, 7.62x25, 7.62x39, 9mm Luger, 40 S&W, and 45 ACP.
Forum: Military Rifles
Gun Parts Corp
Liberty Tree
SARCO
They all have the screws you need.
But if you need those little springs, lots of luck.
Forum: Military Rifles
ukrifleman is correct.
Those markings are very common, and indicate the rifle has been removed from military service.
About 100,000 Type 30 and Type 38 rifles were removed from service and sold to...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I also use it to load 308, 8 mm Mauser and 7.7 Japanese.
Anything that uses BLC-2 can use the WC846.
Good lead on Bartlet Reloading.
I just bought 48 pounds from them, for right at $700...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
26 grains under a 55 grain FMJ in the 223.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Just bought 48 pounds of WC846 (BLC-2) from gibrass, about $700 delivered.
That is about half of what Hodgdon BLC-2 would have cost me.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Weigh the charge coming out of the pulled down rounds.
Use that charge or a bit less to reload 8mm Lebel cartridges under the same weight bullet.
Forum: Black Powder Substitutes
Your spring has lost its tension.
All three of my Murata rifles suffered weak and erratic firing pin strikes.
I had all three of my Murata springs re-heat treated by a local custom spring maker....
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 |