At those ranges I actually prefer a peep sight.
Type: Posts; User: BAGTIC
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I drop straight from the mold into bucket of water. This minimizes the time variation. I tumble lube. I let my bore do the sizing. It gets it perfect every time.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I once had a TCR 87 in .223. It did not suit my purpose as I also had an old SAKO L-46 in .222 Remington that was much more convenient for my needs. It was SO MUCH lighter and handier than the TCR...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
More media B.S.. Made up stories to excite the gullible like so much 'news' today. If they were a threat to honeybees there would not be any honeybees in China but there are. If they were a threat to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I water quench mine but I shoot them all from cartridge guns. I tumble lube them with JPW and shoot them bare. Also I use scrap lead mostly WW. I use a five gallon bucket with an old towel or other...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
For years I have been shooting round balls in an H&R single shot .357Magnum. The problem of 'too much' case capacity is solved by seating the projectile very deep. The same should be true when...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I don't know anywhere it is mandatory to turn in your old battery. I turn them in because the available lead in them is not worth forfeiting the battery core deposit.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
No point in using a sabot steel core design. It would reduce the effective diameter of the projectile. It would also require a shortening of the projectile with more loss of bullet weight. An all...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Johnson' Paste Wax works great not only for subsonic but for most handgun velocity loads. I would be concerned that regular paraffin canning wax might be too brittle.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Reducing the thickness of the case base so the brass can be used to create a belt reduces the potential case strength at the location where it is most critical, all for the sake of fashion.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
If I had to shoot it with that atrocious factory stock I would stay with a small low recoil round. Also that underlever is not very compatible wit h heavy recoil.
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
If you load mixed shot loads it will be better not to mix them. Loading the smaller shot first and then topping off with the larger shot will produce better patterns.
More likely to be killed in a traffic accident or drunken brawl than by a bear. But then paranoid hysteria sells better than reality.
A roll crimp will leave greater internal volume with shot and will do a better job holding a heavy slug or ball in place against recoil, something that is important with repeaters..
Forum: Our Town
ALL Hindus are not vegetarian any more than all Jews are pork phobic.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I sold my 25 ACP pistols and loading dies because my clumsy fingers found it a PITA to reload. Arthritis was not making it any easier. I would suggest something on a 32 pistol cartridge, any of them,...
I had one. I had great results with the SAECO SWC 98? grain in my six inch Single Six. 1200 fps and 8 fps SD with Blue Dot. Sorry but I don't remember the exact charge as it has been years. Nothing...
Forum: Cast Boolits
No swaging die made will make a bullet that fits your barrel better than will your barrel. A lead bullet would need to be very much oversize to have significant effect and that would be better than a...
What would that load be used for? At what range?
If for something as basic as a home defense load the problem could be solved by substituting cylinders for balls.
What would happen if the ball and the wad did not separate?
If it puts everything 2 inches left you need to adjust the sights to point 2 inches right or change your gripping technique.
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Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Originally IMR4198 was faster that H4198. Hodgdon's is now the source of both '4198' powders. They are using the name IMR4198 even though all modern manufacture powder is actually make to the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I would like to have a custom 38S&W but at my age and budget I have about given up. Instead I use 357 brass in a 357 chamber and simply seat the projectile deeply. In a single shot gun that does not...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The elk must have been an accomplished high jumper as the bullet could not have lifted it off the ground.
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 |