I have killed two cow bison with my Sharps in 45-70 and one with a 40-70. The penetration with these black powder loads at 1,200 fps is astounding. The trajectory is the challenge. Just to give you a...
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
I have killed two cow bison with my Sharps in 45-70 and one with a 40-70. The penetration with these black powder loads at 1,200 fps is astounding. The trajectory is the challenge. Just to give you a...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
What an ordeal, congratulations on being the ethical type of man who does what he has to do to retrieve game under trying circumstances. If we are lucky, we all get to experience one of those "bust a...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Obviously I'm not Larry but I have been shooting a lot of cast bullets in 308s lately along with several friends. We are very satisfied with the Lee 312-155-2R and the 30 XCB moulds. Sized at...
Forum: Our Town
I had some 38-55 jacketed I pull from C.I.L. I think. Canadian Industries Limited. The box may have said Canuck. They looked much like those bullets.
Duke
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I have only taken one bear. I have helped with a couple more. We had ready access to vehicles and more importantly, ice! We filled the cavities of the freshly gutted bears with ice. Then skinned them...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That is a pretty Rossi! Did you refinish it?
Duke
I cast, load, and should old fashioned round nose bullets all the time. They drop easily from the mould, but most importantly, I can tell at a glance what ammo I am looking at. If I pickup a round...
Forum: Our Town
No kidding. Give up a pot of coffee and day, chocolate, spicy food, bourbon? You've got to be kidding! A life well lived carries some risk!
Duke
Forum: Our Town
Well all of this chili talk got my taste buds leaking so I scratch made a big pot of Posole Rojo. I spent a couple hours making the enchilada sauce yesterday, roasting the guajillos, pasillas, and...
Forum: Our Town
Just seated 500 in Federal .308 brass with a Lee hand priming tool with no difficulties at all.
Duke
Your smokeless loads sound a smidge warm to me. My wife shot a pair of Uberti 51 Richard/Mason conversions, and we shot straight black in them in 38 Long Colt. In the short case I'd be thinking more...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Oh ****, what about the raw buffalo liver I ate on the plains of Montana? By the way, the texture is much like fine bubble wrap.
Duke
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Having shot cottontails right through the chest with both .45 acp and 44 spl I can unequivocally recommend the classic 246 gr. round nose with 5 grains of Bullseye. I think mine is the 429383.
Duke
Forum: Cast Boolits
Auto Correct = an annoying feature on phones, tablets, and computers that substitute a common word for the less common the writer intended.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'm confused, so my comments make be completely wrong. Are you seating these wadcutters completely into the case s they are flush at the mouth? I have 180 gr. and a 245 gr. Lyman full wadcutter...
Forum: Leverguns
And no black powder smoke signature to pin point his location.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
It's the only lever gun I know of chambered for the .454 Casull, so......
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I used H335 in a 30 wcf Model 94 rifle with 26"bbl. I shot 308291 solids and hollow pointed and I was getting about 2" groups at 80 yards using 26.5 grains of powder. Then used the HP'd version to...
Forum: Our Town
CB450 Honda for a few weeks. Then a 1976 GL-1000. Just a few weeks after I got my MC endorsement, the Sgt. in roll call asked if anyone had cycle endorsement and wanted to ride. Shhhhaaaawwwing! I...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
You are over thinking it. Just dump new BE in the hopper and keep loading. I shoot BE from the 1970's, 80's, 90's 2000's and new the last couple years. It's all Bullseye.
Forum: Our Town
76 yesterday in SW WI and we put 170 miles on the motorcycle. Very windy though. Tomorrow snow and rain high of 40, Thursday some more, high of 38, Friday high of 40. The Mississippi is so flooded I...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
What a marvelous, illustrated story. Thank you for sharing with us.
Duke
Forum: Cast Boolits
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I like that photo, a lot!
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Best advice I can give after eating a lot of critters is this. If you're gonna eat a male bob cat, neuter him a couple of years before you butcher him. Otherwise it tastes like eau de litter box....
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Isn't a shame when competition, money, or ego gets involved with something as important as hunting and gathering? I've often said I wished deer were like rabbits, and you could not determine gender...
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 |