Brakes on already low recoiling guns are great, there's a big difference between recoil being light enough it is barely noticeable on the shoulder, and recoiling being so light the gun practically...
Type: Posts; User: Peregrine
Forum: Military Rifles
Brakes on already low recoiling guns are great, there's a big difference between recoil being light enough it is barely noticeable on the shoulder, and recoiling being so light the gun practically...
Forum: Cast Boolits
All the cool milsurp and older sporting rifles dried right up or doubled and trippled in price.
Mainly just dried up, people are holding onto what they have.
Forum: Leverguns
Mine doesn't have the illuminated reticule but now you guys have me thinking I should try that out.
Forum: Leverguns
I have a micro H2, and I love it and recomend it without reservation, however my choice for my levergun is a leupold 1.5-4.5x20. Perfect footprint and magnification for a levergun, almost as fast as...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I did just that for the first time a couple weeks ago. Good results. Just getting into cast through the Garand myself. Mind you my Garand is a 308 but that shouldn't really matter too much.
Lots...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Thanks for sharing your notes, it's great to see people sharing raw experimental data.
There are a few things I could use clarification on. In your first post "12 hours later, I boiled the water out...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
You're forgetting the cylinder gap. I've seen similar cross sectioned revolver barrels.
It seems with revolvers it's possible to stack multiple rounds in barrels after squibs because the pressure...
Forum: Vintage Powder Cans / Tins
Definetly collectible and desirable.
I'm normally a fan of kind of ugly unusual design choices in firearms but this made me cringe.
Not for me. Not offended, however.
Forum: Cast Boolits
The reason we say "trial and error" is to desensitize people to the reality that when you are learning you will make mistakes. Lots of them. We normalize this reality so when they start making...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You hear this a lot, but there's quite a difference between spending money on equipment and spending money on consumables. Some talk like there's hypocrisy in spending a lot of money on guns and...
Forum: Our Town
Welcome back.
I also took a break for a year or so, and just got active again a week or so.
I'm glad we've a got a good community here, still breathing air and pouring lead, we lose so many that...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
That statement is more than a bit funny to me since 4895 was originally produced specifically to load 30-06 in both the 150gr loading before and during ww1, and in the M2 load during ww2. You can get...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I'd expedite getting into loading 30-06, both those are the ideal powders for that application and it's only going to get harder to track down components and dies in the near future.
Much too...
Forum: Our Town
On the other hand, mk42gunner, when you said you're not shooting "anymore" of it, how much have you shot already?
Forum: Our Town
Good post earlmck, but give yourself some credit, you're working off quite a bit of knowledge that many don't have.
If someone has the ability to, and trusts themself to identify mystery powder...
Forum: Our Town
Do you have any more detail about this book? At least the title? Maybe a good anecdote out of it, it sounds interesting.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That's a beautiful sight, i'm thrilled to find a couple while i'm spraying my steel back up.
Forum: Rimfire Area
I would have sent it. :D
I had a CCI minimag that failed to go off the other day, even after a couple more attempts. I've shot several thousand over the years, not a crazy amount, but they've...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Don't read too much into anything yet, molds take time to break in. What you should try is heat cycling the mold to working temperature and back down before you use it again.
Frosting on bullets is...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thanks for sharing your experience Doubles Shooter, not all would but I got a good laugh at it.
My one boom reloading was when I was teaching a friend to use an RCBS hand priming tool. He had a...
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 |