Lord willing, I am going to the range Saturday and will check the gun out with my available 45 Colts. Should be fun plinking, anyway. I love Smiths, anyway.
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Lord willing, I am going to the range Saturday and will check the gun out with my available 45 Colts. Should be fun plinking, anyway. I love Smiths, anyway.
Will have to check Starline's prices on the Casull and 460 brass. I plan to go to the range this weekend and see how it does with 45LC and 250gr. cast. I may never run a jacketed bullet through it,...
I'm over in the east half, close to Columbus, GA.
Yes, the older I get, the more I like wheelguns, especially big stout ones.
I haven't priced it but I thought 460 brass was pretty costly, plus the extra powder needed to fill the bigger case, but who knows? I haven't cracked a cap in it yet. There's plenty of fun to be...
Boatswain mate, you mentioned powder coating. Do you think gas checks will be needed?
Yes, I'll slug it when I get a chance. I will probably try some "store-bought" cast slugs at first, if some can be found with good bases.
This is a 460 XVR with the 8-3/8" barrel. I really...
So I got this gun by trading some inherited shotguns I don't need. I know, it's excessive, unnecessarily powerful, etc. Heck, I don't even hunt any more, just plink at the range.
I bought the...
Forum: Our Town
I guess I never thought of using one with a rifle. For a while, Marlin, I think, made a smoothbore bolt rifle called a Garden Gun. I don't recall if it was in 22M or just LR. In my case, carrying...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I'm not military myself, just going on what I've been told.
Fort Benning's site says it could be up to 16 weeks, depending on MOS, but apparently, not less than 10.
Forum: Our Town
In my business, and especially here in the Deep South, this is all too common. To this day, I have a rattler skin in my office.
Snake boots are good advice but they can be expensive and not...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
While working around an old demolished house site years ago, I found a number of sheets of what appeared to have been old school tests (I live near a college town). I presume this is Lino? Seems...
Forum: Gas Checks
First, apologies for reviving an old thread. Second, I have read the article on your site about this subject and am wondering if this is not the most perfect solution to my combo of a Lee 340 gr. PB...
Forum: Leverguns
[QUOTE=Char-Gar;4467408]Fantasy drives more gun purchases than reality. Sooner or later, most of us grow up and realize we have some guns for which we have no real need or purpose. That is the time...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I usually pick up my components at gun shows. The ones in nearby Columbus Ga happen at least every 6 months and coincide with the end of basic training at Fort Benning.
Forum: Leverguns
Serendipity led me to buy an H&R Shikari when I was a young man back in the 70s. I liked it so well that in the 80s, I bought an 1895 with the straight stock and micro-groove rifling - and the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I still have my Shikari. Bought new in the '70s. Back then the only rounds available were 405 grains. Very pleasant to shoot. I think I would like to go back to something similar.
The Shikari...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
In fact, IIRC, those CIL 455 Colt cases I have are balloon head. Considering the low pressure of the cartridge, I expect they are fine, not that I plan to reuse any of them.
Bullet velocities...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I did some searching but didn't find a thread on this specifically. If I missed one, I would be pleased if someone would point it out.
Way back in my 20's, I walked into my favorite gun shop and...
Haven't seen those for some time. I seem to recall some Russian-made stuff manufactured primarily for the Saiga 410s. Probably Berdan-primed though.
Those would also be good for my Judge. I've...
Forum: AirGuns
I've got a Webley Vulcan that I bought from Beeman back in the '70s. It's never really given me a problem but I'm wondering if the seal goes, should I just replace that or is there maybe a gas...
Such a plethora of ideas! I think I have a fair supply of 410 hulls. That would probably be the easiest route for me. Still have most of a 4 lb. keg of 2400 around and I think I still have a 38...
Hello all,
I guess this might be a good place to make my first post. I'm an aspiring oldster who has accumulated a motley pile of arms, want to resume reloading, and hope I have reached a point in...
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 |