I shot a few BPCR shoots with my 1895 LTD 4 with 24" barrel and BP 2F and a 405 Lyman boolet but my rear sight (Lyman #2) ran out of elevation out past 350 yards so I was Kentucky windageing it past...
Type: Posts; User: jerdog53
Forum: Leverguns
I shot a few BPCR shoots with my 1895 LTD 4 with 24" barrel and BP 2F and a 405 Lyman boolet but my rear sight (Lyman #2) ran out of elevation out past 350 yards so I was Kentucky windageing it past...
Forum: Leverguns
Was that a 16" barrel?
I have figured that type of speed out of my 24" Marlin and often wondered about a faster burning rifle power like RL-7 might shine but havent tried it and there isn't any...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Is it really all that important that all the cases be from the same manufacturer? Seams to me that if the weight of the cases is the same or with in a grain or two of each other that would suffice....
Forum: Casting Equipment
I just wanted to thank you all for the infomation I proved you can use a Lyman #191 top punch on Lee 45 cal cast bollets!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Congrats and I got green envey going on, I'll be there one day!
Forum: Leverguns
My smith in WY did it with a 336 rebarreled, the 94 action was not long enough to handle it, and I think he was worried about the action being able to handle the added pressure. After the conversion...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I tend to stand for everything, some times I sit while loading but not very often
Forum: Leverguns
I picked up a Rossi Puma M92 clone about 4 years ago in 454, it has about 500 rounds through it and functions flawlessly. It was cracking the fore grip at the screw hole with that ugly factory wood...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have the #191 on my list so mabie I will start with that and see how it works.
Thanks for the unput fellows!
Forum: Casting Equipment
Ok so how do I go about finding flat ended punchs?
Forum: Casting Equipment
I bought some used Lee molds and went looking for top punches and did not find any. Through my search it occurred to me that Lee intends for you to use their luber seizer which doesn’t use top...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have always tried to use the "real thing". When I lived in rural WY I never had a problem getting the stuff but down here i cannot fine it anywhere. I never considdered ordering the stuff as I...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Has any of you all ever loaded up Balloon head brass with Black and shot it? Is it true, which would make since that you can put more powder in these cases?
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
When you all talk about black what do you mean, Black or the fake stuff? Do all the loading prerequisites required with the fake stuff? The reason I ask is right now is it hard for me to find Black...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
No, it was a stop gap measure for a one time thing. I fully intend to purchase a 74 of some kind when I manage to scrape together the funds.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I know we are talking about grease cookies but what about the lube on the boolit its self is the type and amount that important and beneficial to help keep the fouling soft? Or does the cookie do...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Here let me make it bigger.
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Like I said somewhere this was my one and only BPCR shoot. Shot about 4 years ago when I was...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
That 40-82 is very interesting to me but I have heard it is tempromental to get to shoot properly. I would think it would be hard to find brass and dies for it as well.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Talk about useing a Marlin for long range shots my one and only BPCR match was with a Marlin 1895 in forty five seventy! with 65grans or FFg what a hoot! I am hooked! I did good out to 500 yds or...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have been wanting to do this BPCR stuff for a long time now and have been watching and reading and trying to figure out which of the import guns would be worth while and or did I want to really...
Forum: Our Town
Depends what it is the Speed Goats I will do in house along with does. Most everything else I will send out.
Forum: Leverguns
My gun smith built a 357 maxi on a 336 action with a new barrel he had said that was the only action long to handle it.
Here is my M92 clone in 454
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Forum: Leverguns
Here is my Puma 92 in 454, I have had this about 5 years and had the wood replaced right off the bat because the fore grip kept cracking.
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You know I have a .54 muzzle loader that shoots as well as I can hold it made by these folks.
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 |