I just saw a 16" 5.56 barrel offered for $54.99 shipped at (Gun.deals)
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I just saw a 16" 5.56 barrel offered for $54.99 shipped at (Gun.deals)
Forum: AirGuns
I bought the Beeman model 1073 in June of 2012. Its called the Grizzly X2 and has a .177 & .22 barrels. Its rated at 1000fps/.177 and 800fps/.22. Ita a break barrel spring piston rifle that makes a...
Forum: AirGuns
I got my 22 Disco from PA last June. Installed TKO and re-stained the wood. My new favorite air gun for target and pest control.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I bought my 22 Disco from PA in Cleveland, Ohio in June of 2014. With a 3-9x40 Nikon Prostaff BDC scope I'm taking down starlings at ranges out to 70 yards using 14.3gr CPHP pellets.
Forum: Cast Boolits
My 1992 Hercules Reloaders Guide says.
125gr lead 8.2gr BD=1190 fps @29,700 psi
147gr xtp w/6.2gr of BD=1050 fps @ 30,200 psi
:-P:-P:-P
Depending on the price,I may want 6.
Some one at another site informed me the following.
The Ordnance specs for the magazine well width and magazine width are, respectively, 0.551 + 0.010 and...
My nickle plated Norinco took a walk a couple months ago.I picked out a replacment last friday.My New Taurus SS PT1911.I payed $680 out the door,but some have it cheaper.
Thanks for the Info.I got a new Taurus SS PT1911 last friday,and I have had a hard time finding mags that will fit at the local shops.My magazine well throat is small by
the plunger tube(.540),and...
My 5.5" Blackhawk in 45 colt grew legs Sept 1st.I replaced it a few weeks later with a brand new 7.5" Blackhawk in 45 colt.Went to a gunso Oct 30th and bought
a 1998 SS Redhawk w/7.5"barrel to keep...
If that mould is the R2 ogive,1.2 to .1.22 work good in my Norinco 1911A1.
I picked up the Blackhawk new in Sept.The Redhawk I bought used(1998 model)
last saturday at a show.I have two LEE moulds I used for my 1911s.The 228 grain R1,and the 230grain TL R2 mould. For the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook,third edition,1980 says 750F is a normal casting temperature.Just sayin,I don't know.:???:
Forum: Cast Boolits
OK. I loaded up a .310/.311 cast boolit into a case with 9 grains of unique.
Fireded it and took a reading inside the case neck.ID of the neck reads .310
to .311 pushing a little.
I can insert my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have the LEE TL452-230-2R mould that cast two boolits.With my WW + solder alloy,mine drop at 231 & 232 grain.
My LEE C309-160-R mould drops them at 151 and 152 grains with the same alloy.
I'm...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Good thing you had your safty glasses on.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks FAsmus,I have some flaring tools someware.I use to do HVAC/R work
as a maintenance tec when I had to.I have a flaring block and assorted swaging
tools in the basement somewhere.Ah,found a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks Tim.I forgot to add that I don't plan to use gas checks at this time.
I plan on target shooting and plinking at about 100 yards useing unique or red dot powder.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I put away my Harbor Fright caliper and got out my Brown and Sharpe Micrometer.
I sluged my muzzle and got a reading of about.30925.
My Boolits are droping from my mould at about .31050 on the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My 5.5 inch Blackhawk(1993) took a walk last month and was replaced with a brand new 7.5" Blackhawk with a Sept 2010 inspection sticker.The throats look to be .449,and the barrel .451.My Lee...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just bought a LEE C309-160-R mound to start loading for a Ruger M77 in 30/06.
My boolits are droping at 151 and 152 grain,and .311 dia.( WW with solder added)
Do I need to size them to308 or309?
I...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I picked up a Ruger M77,1980 serial# in 30/06 that holds 5 in it's fixed box.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I picked Red Dot, Bullseye, and Unique becouse that is what I had been useing
for my 12ga since 1986.I started reloading 45acp in 2004.
I to have the 228 g mould,found out here about ogive.Got the Lee 230-2R mould for my 1911.Will shoot the 228s from my Blackhawk 45lc.
Forum: Casting Equipment
My first pot was a Lee 10lb bottom pour that I melted everything in for fifteen years.It still works for my brother now.I got the 4-20 now.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I bought a cheap electronic scale for $25 to check my Lee scale.The digi scale says 1.5gn+/- at 100 gns.It wont show tenths of a grain thou.My 8.5grains of Unique show 9 on the batt scale.
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 |