I read that the top producers and exporters are Thailand, China, and India.
Also read from WSJ that Russia has recently ~doubled their imports - no surprise, with the last couple years.
Type: Posts; User: Kestrel4k
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I read that the top producers and exporters are Thailand, China, and India.
Also read from WSJ that Russia has recently ~doubled their imports - no surprise, with the last couple years.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Will that include the NOE stuff the owner covered re: your last thread, now deleted ?
Forum: Rimfire Area
The Leupold service center may or may not be currently providing their parallax service based on current workload status, but it is worth asking. The price was reasonable many years ago but won't be...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Shouldn't this be in the Coatings and Alternatives subforum ? lol
Forum: Our Town
Thanks for the link; tagged w/ my post so I can watch it later, thx.
Forum: Rimfire Area
My thought was an intentional "mistake" by a line worker, hoping that he could buy the 'defective' rifle for a song instead of the factory having to rework it. And then his plan didn't work out for...
Forum: Our Town
I don't believe much of what I read on this site anyways, so go for it. :-)
Forum: Our Town
My first decade growing up in Bush AK, we always had a few C rations kicking around the camp gear. I thought they were pretty good as a kid - of course, even boxed mac & cheese is good at that age...
Forum: Our Town
... rummaging through my 38Spl brass to sell as 357Mag ...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
My apologies, I didn't see that this was the Muzzleloader subforum;
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have read that smokeless powder contains a small amount of moisture, by design;
While I use dessicant packs in my primer cans, I do not for my ammo cans for this reason.
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I can't speak for the TSS, but my very first shot with Hevi-Shot killed 5 mallards stone dead.
With my limited hunting time and all the related effort, I can certainly understand the reasoning...
Forum: Our Town
Thx for the report Don; I have similar and think I am pushing that ...
My apologies for not reading all the posts, but I think a component of recoil that isn't often discussed is recoil /velocity/ - which is certainly perceived differently than recoil energy.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Outstanding article, thanks for posting it.
Nice having the add'l historical context of naval warfare events.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I rather doubt that the red powder is ferritic for this particular case.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The most accurate 44Mag load I have ever shot is the Hornady LE 225gr FTX factory load; this does honest 1" 5-shot groups at 100 yds from my Ruger 77/44 (1:20" twist rate).
Also less than a...
Forum: Leverguns
My 336-44 has always functioned perfectly, and is the most accurate lever action I have ever worked with. My buddy sold his for $1500 a year or two ago, FWIW.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The minor diameter for that threading is 0.456" per the Surefire threading spec;
With a 0.358" bore that leaves ~0.049" wall thickness by my calculation not 0.025" ??
I concur on 1/2"x28 being...
The only pre-lock S&W's I've ever sold, were the lesser two of /four/ S&W M64-5's I was fortunate enough to have done a lot purchase of.
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I am blessed with a good collection of pre-lock...
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 |