Kicked like the Southern end of a North bound mule, eh? Told ya to stay away from them mules, you ain't from Missouri.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Kicked like the Southern end of a North bound mule, eh? Told ya to stay away from them mules, you ain't from Missouri.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
physeptone & Petander - another option is to "beagle" a mold to make it slightly larger. Do a search about how to beagle a mold. This is a temporary change that can be undone at any time. It...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/1193/1/LEE-SIZE-458
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/1193/1/LEE-SIZE-459
Slugging the bore is really easy. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't remember the individual's name, but here are pix of some of his bullets that I copied.284651 284652 284653 284654 284655
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Sound? The only sound I want them to hear is the hammer falling.
Forum: Military Rifles
Good and interesting information here, but I don't think anybody answered the question. I too have a number of cans of GI Bore Cleaner. They have three different PO number formats.
For example,...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I'm pretty sure it was the made for TV movie "Texas". A couple of Houston's men were chasing a Mexican courier on horseback. One pulled out his flintlock pistol and shot at the courier. He missed....
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Taylor & Company in Winchester, VA too. Over the past couple of years I've ordered two Pedersoli rifles through them.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Right you are, Marlinman93. caliber 38-55 Ballard in an 1885 High Wall.
I make a dummy cartridge and paint the bullet with a black Magic Marker. I set it at various O.A.L.'s and load it. ...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I found my best accuracy with a 45-70 Rolling Block, 45-70 Trapdoor and 38-55 Ballard High Wall comes when I seat the bullet so that the bullet engages the rifling. Not so it pushes the bullet back...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As pointed out, alloy will make a big difference in weight. Casting temperature can cause small variations in weight. I "Beagle" my 457193, cast in pure lead and size it to 0.459" for a 421 grain...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
And yet Dick Trenk preferred to weigh his powder charges.
A weight of a powder is not the same as a volume of the same powder.
Measuring by volume is faster, can be done in the field, and is...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I got mine from Lee Shaver after a number of N-SSA folks strongly recommended him.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
White eggs in a snow storm at 50 yards.... that sounds like fun. To be remembered, but not this year.
Did have a ham hung on a mylar string at 50 yards once. Cut the string and win the ham. $5...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
You do the math and you get the weight of the ball IN THEORY!!
Unless the ball is swaged there's going to be a void, a true void, in the ball. It will be up near the sprue. Cut one in half and...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Just a story on me - the first time I used PCed bullets in a competition was a local one.
I knew I was going to take some heat so I used Smoke's Red. Yep, it drew comments - so did my score...
Forum: Cast Boolits
YES!!!!!! In both brass and nickel plated but ESPECIALLY in the plated. My percentage was a LOT higher than yours. Someone above mentioned wet tumbling and I think that may be the issue because I...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
One year, in February, it got so cold that wiping solutions were turning to slush; wiping patches were freezing in the bore; spit patches would stick to the roundball and go flapping down range;...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
This is an old video, but still interesting and informative. Thought others might find it interesting also.
https://youtu.be/6HhdkkdsvTM
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I had a little fun with local November and December competitions.
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I hadn't noticed before, and I haven't read any comments about, but these three powders gave slightly different...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
St. Peters, eh? Always help out a fellow Missourian. From Ste Genevieve, wish I was back there.
It's a shooter. You're going to love it. This powder isn't available any more :o( but Accurate...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thank you everybody for your input. I appreciate your help. This forum is a fantastic resource.
The cam has a pointed 4-40 set screw in it AND is tight on the shaft. We didn't try real hard, but...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Ikmcd1 - Issue #2 is the one I've got and your solution is likely the way I'll go. Question - did you drill through 1) both sides of the lever/handle and the shaft or 2) just through one side and...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
THANK YOU, M-TECS !!!
I have not had the issue with the door popping open and ejecting the cartridge (auto eject) but I take the information in the articles as a warning. May decide to take one of...
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 |