I concur with using 700-X.
Type: Posts; User: georgewxxx
Forum: Vintage Ammo
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Peters version of the same .22's was a Thunderbolt.
#79 - "For Cap and Ball Revolvers" (Percussion). Available in .31 cal, .36 cal. and .44 cal. First cherry made February, 1941. The.36 cal version .375 length=95 grains pure lead, the .44 cal version...
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Forum: Vintage Ammo
Is that one of those clinker shells for cleaning blast furnaces?
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
You have to jump hoops some but Lymans Handbook #38 & #44 is available through Wayback Machine. Just scroll down to the desired cartridge and find your load. It may take a while to download so don't...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
I prefer the Lyman 1st edition cast bullet handbook, but this newer one you can download here for starts....
I wouldn't get too uptight about those extremely high auction prices. My son sells my excess on Ebay for me, and all that money generated, goes into my grandchildren college fund. One of our casting...
Forum: Cast Boolits
How deep you put the mould in the hot lead and for how long makes a difference. I usually put my moulds about a quarter to a half inch into the lead making sure you hold them tightly closed, and...
I've got a tub of straight alox they sold me on. Not sure what I had planned on doing with it. People were always trying to find the best combination of ingredients for the perfect lube, so maybe...
Forum: Leverguns
Bubba must of had the one I own now. I just sold the butt stock from it on eBay. It came from a Colt .22 rifle of all things. Found a Winchester replacement piece of wood and found new made curved...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
One way to find out if the added pistol grip was a add on, is check to see where the circled P inspection mark is located. Normally, it'll be directly behind the bottom trigger plate. If the...
Just so you guys know, Modern Bond plates interchange with Hensley & Gibbs.
Very few of post here are dead. Lead shooting ideas and load data from the very beginning can help both novice and seasoned shooter.
My Springfield with a 1-12 twist gets 1.75" with 10 rounds at a 100 yds. using 40gr. surplus 4895, at 2050 fps.
Forum: Cast Boolits
The local slaughterhouse used to use .22LR in a rifle for everything except bison. Bison needed one round from a M1 carbine. They wanted to switch from the .22 to .357, and asked about a single shot...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
227480 I kinda doubt this hardbound Lyman Handbook Of Cast Bullets was sold commercially anywhere. An old friend died a year ago had this in his library and when bringing some garden produce to his...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Next time watch John Wayne's Cowboys where he leads a bunch of school kids on a cattle drive. In one action scene a youngster shooting a supposedly old pistol. Look closely and quickly at the front...
Some of you may have come across mould blocks with additional letters on the and don't know what they mean. I had purchased several of them with a capitol "R" on them. One still had a tag in the the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
It was designed for the .45 Colt as a wadcutter, but will work in some 45 ACP's also
At a gun show many years ago I spotted a Kimber M-82 in 25-20 that I drooled over, but already had 3 25-20's at home. That dealer happened to be at lunch so I though I'd come back later and make a...
Forum: Military Rifles
Yeah thats a model 1868 rifle that has a 1869 on the breach block, it's upside down, but plainly visible in those photo's. The serial number shown is one made in the last month of 1869. If you want...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Has anyone tried to reform .22-3000 R2 Lovell up to .25-20 SS?
I've got some Rem-Umc .25-20 single shot cases that had been formed and fired in a .22-3000 R2 Lovell. Can these be made back to...
Forum: Vintage Ammo
The case is dated "69" so it wouldn't be Japan, but who knows how long that particular bullet or lot of bullets had been lying around waiting to get accidently loaded?
Then you wonder how much...
Forum: Vintage Ammo
You're idea was correct, it is magnetic.
M-1 was never a long range cartridge, and that flat ogive would would make it hit with a tad more snort, but body armor?
Like I said in my first post,...
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 |