After a search i found this link for making your own lampblack:http://www.jcsparks.com/painted/recipes.html#Lampblack
I use my Zippo for the open sights and i dont use the clean fuel, for my taste...
Type: Posts; User: NucEm
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
After a search i found this link for making your own lampblack:http://www.jcsparks.com/painted/recipes.html#Lampblack
I use my Zippo for the open sights and i dont use the clean fuel, for my taste...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If anyone has problems finding pure lead, try using any soft mettal to test with, as long as you know the bhn number of it and change the formula it works.:) I have used pure copper in my:-D
But...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Most of you propably already know and use it so its just repetition[smilie=1:
The cleaning rods, steel and brass or whatever can sometimes do more damage to the guns than wanted:twisted: In the...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
After reading everything in here about making the lube i have started to locate all the ingrediens. Never made my own before, and i will surely end upp making my own action and barrel too before...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
After reading everything in here about making the lube i have started to locate all the ingrediens. Never made my own before, and i will surely end upp making my own action and barrel too before...
Forum: Gas Checks
Never used a GC for pistols:) But for revolver and rifle cartridges is the answer yes for me. Heavy 357 Magnum and uppwards in revolver i feel the need for gc. In a 357 Supermag DW gun its a must and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Felix, you talked about bismouth. Never tried that, how about casting with only that?
And how much do you mix now in your aloy? Any special things ones has to do when doing that? lots of...
Forum: Our Town
I think that a nicely made gun in .400 Whelen would function ok if only the headspace is taken care off. Lots of problems with that but if one uses the original chamber numbers it functions ok:-D...
Iv seen one long time ago but never tried. The "cylinder moves forward and sealing the gap" was also used on military revolvers in the old ussr built on the Belgian brothers Nagant design, Nagant...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just a few words about digital scales. I have a friend who works with gold and those stones women found attractive:roll: He is using expensive equipment, more than i can aford but...he is a what I...
Forum: Special Projects
The dimensions of the barrel versus the dia of the bullet? Give us some numbers, how is the bullet dia? When i was involved in competition i reloaded and shooted at least 5000 32 cartridges on a...
I read in here about feeding problems in tight 1911 guns:-D
A tight 1911 whatever the cartridge it shoots, if clean and tight will shoot and feed anything, thats what mine does:)
Most 45 guns...
Forum: Our Town
Ok, you folks in here seems to know a few things more than just casting bullets and let them fly!:-D
English isnt my ordinary language (swedish over here) but i try to read as much as possible...
Forum: Our Town
""" How about grinding the base off a jacketed (full or partial) bullet, taking care to leave a sharp scraping edge (ground surface flat or slightly cupped)."""
Just remember if you grind the base...
Forum: Our Town
I am sorry to hear of your los, my condolences to you and his family.
This is a reminder to all of us: Cast your bullets today, you never now what tomorow brings! Old time friend you said, ilbet you...
Forum: Cast Boolits
When i want the most accuracy of my cartridges i weight sort the cases. So yes, if i done that i surely have to weight the bullets too:) But for 25 yards pappershooting i would never do that. When...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have the old rcbs bench mounted primer tool but iam mostly use the Lee[smilie=1: I like to watch tv when doing that and its the only reloading step i do outside the reloading room of mine:) This...
Forum: Our Town
:) The doors closed?:) I understand you but iam not a jumper out of the sky:-D Never done that:) What we do is called paragliding and we have to start from the ground, no jumps here:) Look at...
Forum: Our Town
Nope, if it was the quality would have been just as good as it looked:roll:
But some parts in it like the cylinder latch is a copy of Korth. The name of the custom gunmaker is ...
Forum: Our Town
Dont know if you could call me a real pilot, always a passenger when it comes to wings with engines on them[smilie=1:
But iam a paraglider so i like to defie gravity:-D...
Forum: Our Town
Isnt nice to spend a few buks and buy a gun magazine and open it up and read, to learn about new wonderfull things, new guns and new cartridges.... Just a week ago, i did just that and in there ( a...
Forum: Special Projects
It seems to me that this would generate more problems than usuall:-D
About the hollow point part, you think that bullet would perform better with a hollow point please then tell my why? That small...
Forum: Our Town
Never had any big troubles with removing lead but i used the homemaked version of the electrodevice, just a flaslight as they describe it in there if one follows the link. I use it on some old 6.5...
Forum: Cast Boolits
This one must be a true one!:-D When i was testing a 378 Weatherby with a few fullpower premiumbullet loaded cartridges i thought i forgott my peltor hearing protection.:twisted: I was not, that...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Hmmmmm, mine isnt a beauty either but works fine in around 50rpm. My question, i used ordnary bearings in mine, if i change them to helicopter bearings, would my B.C.of the cases start to hover...
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 |