In the book "Danger: Dinosaurs!" they used a thirty thirty and a 1911.
Type: Posts; User: snglstack
Forum: Cast Boolits
In the book "Danger: Dinosaurs!" they used a thirty thirty and a 1911.
Forum: Leverguns
There's a dealer on Auction Arms that lists from Aurora. Might be Gunbroker...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have a custom (it says .357 on the side) double cavity mold that throws a 270gr and a 295gr very wide meplat flat point. Still beagling around with the mold for .380 but I have high hopes for...
Aha! The rest of this is just to add length cuz it said my original message was too short.
I have both. The Colt has a busted main spring. I have a replacement spring fro Numrich, but jeez I'm leery of opening up an old double action. The only other one I ever worked on was putting some...
I sure like my Single Seven. Seems to me there was a 101 in .327 in the cabinet when I got mine. Been smacking steel at 300 yards with it, regular. Can't wait to shoot up al this factory stuff so...
Forum: Our Town
Pack rats here can build a nest under the hood of your truck in one night. And make your check engine and brake warning light turn on forever. Got a couple of kittens, brothers, and before long...
When my youngest son (26 now) was three he had one of those toy tool belts with a toy cordless drill. He always carried it drill bit down with his finger off the trigger, just like his big brothers...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
"Do you have to do anything besides pull the handle and keep the tubes/hoppers fed?"
Well, you do have to change out the full buckets and barrels of new ammo for empty ones; maybe get one a yer...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
60gr FFg is my target load in a .50 Hawken. IIRC 40 gr is more or less standard in a Walker. I've been wrong before but I was only mistaken. A dear friend of mine had one forty years ago. He died...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Just wanted to say thank you for this thread. About twelve years ago I looked at a new Marlin 336CB in 38-55. I did not put it down until I had it in my truck, hehehe. Found a double cavity mold...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yep, I'm still plugging away at the primers acquired in '94....still have thousands left, and I'm gonna use em all!!
Forum: Our Town
Let's see here...Colt NF Buntline .22 bought new in 1974; Ruger Mk I Target 6 7/8"; Ruger MkII Government BB; Ruger 22/45; Ruger Super Single Six; H&R Sportsman: High Standard Sentinel; oops, here's...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
How can shootin a thousand rounds ever really be bad news...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Killed my first deer w/2 PRB and 100gr of FFG in TC Hawken, 1972. As stated above, one would have worked as well. At about maybe 35 yards the balls left a figure-eight hole and blew clean...
Forum: Our Town
Many years ago my son and I pulled up to a shooting spot in the national forest. There were what looked like a grandpa and grandson there just finishing up their shooting and leaving. They had a...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Started at 16 but got my first at 22. A nice tasty lil forked horn at 40 yards w/a TC Hawken .50, 100gr black under two patched round balls.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Same here in CO Saturday...out in the yard on a picnic table cast 6 1/2 lbs of NOE #311008 115gr for my new favorite, a SSM in .32 H&R Magnum. Funzies at the range next time!!! Don't recollect what...
Forum: Cast Boolits
One a my favorite things is a lawn chair, a bucket a rimfire ammo, a good .22 pistol, and a 8"x5" steel plate at 100 yards. I can sit and shoot that thing all day, hittin it most of the time, at...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Last week I was trying out my new NOE mold w/WW in a Lee PP. It's been awhile and I thought about this thread and pulled some dry leavs off a nearby tree and crushed em up on the melt. Seemed to...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have ALWAYS had the best experiences w/RCBS customer service. No complaints at all...used to live nearby and drop in now and then...what a store!!!
Forum: Cast Boolits
Almost 62. Started in '68 casting .58 rouind balls for my Navy Arms Buffalo Hunter (basically a short Zuave), then a Hawken. Melting lead on the stove in a little frying pan and pouring directly...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
#311008 came last week (5 cav), waaaaay sooner than I expected. Quality tool but I'm still learnin its quirks (metal temp mostly, I think) before pics are posted. So far, Im plumb tickled with it.
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 |