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Type: Posts; User: lkydvl
Forum: Special Projects
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Forum: Special Projects
My "proof" rounds were actually just standard ball ammo. The barrel is one of the tapered bore, chrome lined variations the military experimented with. The bore started at .510 at the chamber end...
Forum: Special Projects
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Forum: Special Projects
Finally got a decent start on the stock...
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Here's a few I have built...
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Forum: Special Projects
Scope bases contoured and attached after correcting an off level flat on the rear receiver ring.
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Extraction...
I need a mold for 50 BMG..
650 grs or so, GC, Spire point, spitzer or semi spitzer. Single cavity will do
Forum: Special Projects
UPDATE!
After a plethora of issues involving the unfired, chrome lined, TAPERED bore barrel we finally got it chambered and fitted to the receiver. Cutting enough of the tops of the rifling to...
Forum: Swaging
your cross hatch pattern may be the mirror of the internal polishing of the die body
Forum: Special Projects
Safety Lever was properly fitted now and functions as it should. Trigger ping shortened to proper length too. Still searching for a firing pin spring....and Wolfe Springs is not much help. ...
Forum: Special Projects
Picked this partially completed single shot 50 BMG receiver and barrel combo from a friend sometime back.
Was started by a "B. V. Mack" in "1957" as stamped on the bottom of the receiver. ...
Forum: Our Town
"Plus I don't relinquish my God given rights just because someone else says this is their sandbox."
You Sir, are dense. Your rights are not unlimited just because you think they should be. You...
Forum: Our Town
So you post this before I got a chance to provide you with the corrected number?
I am not responsible for slow mail. Your reamer was mailed on Monday after getting your payment on Saturday.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
9 B&M
3 Lyman 55
4 Dillon
4 RCBS
1 Herters
1 Saeco
1 Hollywood
Had an extra Dominator with a pitted 308 Win barrel. No sense if leaving it that way so grabbed a length of 458 barrel and turned out a heavy barrel for it. I know, I know...the 45 Raptor is...
Blue DotŪ should NOT be used in the 41 Magnum cartridge (all bullet weights).
Funnily enough, I discovered the same thing in the late 70's. Was shooting 41 mags with cast boolits and while it...
Forum: Swaging
Anyone heard from this gentleman? Sent him an email concerning the swage dies he was making, took advanced payments for and has yet to deliver.
Have not heard anything back nor has he had much of...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I have 5+ lbs of Red Dot to trade. Its a powder I just don't use. I could use Unique, H110, W-W 680, Alliant 1680.
I am in SW MN along I-90
Forum: Our Town
Donations have slowed way down...I have a few hundred here from checks mailed to me and maybe a couple more from pending auction payments or PayPal donations.
We made the server goal, and then...
Forum: Our Town
Need a followup on the 357 Maximum brass auction... Winner thinks he got too much brass!
How's that for showqing the spirit of this place!
Would the original owner auctioneer please contact...
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 |