My prayers are with you, Felix, and thank you for all of your help and advice. I give you my promise to adhere to your requests.
Jeff
Type: Posts; User: ElDorado
Forum: Our Town
My prayers are with you, Felix, and thank you for all of your help and advice. I give you my promise to adhere to your requests.
Jeff
Forum: Cast Boolits
I wouldn't have thought it either, but it looks like everyone knows it's a hot topic except me. I don't know why a man can't relate his experiences without others' condescending remarks on his...
Forum: Cast Boolits
It does seem to be a hot topic. I didn't realize that.
Kryogen - since it seems that you already have one on hand, why don't you just try it and see if you like it. It seems to be a matter of...
Forum: Leverguns
Try kerosene, or mix up some Ed's Red.
http://www.handloads.com/articles/default.asp?id=9
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have to agree with Goodsteel about the brass moulds. I have a couple of 4 cavity 45 caliber brass moulds that need to run hotter than steel or aluminum, or it takes them longer to get to the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The factory crimp die will swage your 38 bullet down just like it will a 9mm. Roll crimp revolver cartridges, and taper crimp auto-loading handgun cartridges. The factory crimp die creates more...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I already have four presses mounted on my bench, so I did like AZ Pete. I mounted mine on a piece of fir 2x4 and clamp it in the vise when needed. It sure saves space.
Forum: Rimfire Area
I placed an order with Cabela's last night and it wasn't available at that time because I checked. I probably would have ordered it last night with the other stuff. I'll pass for now, though. It's...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
That's probably for the absent-minded tinkerer who is liable to forget that he plugged the bore, and then neglects to remove it before the next time he shoots.
I was shooting with a guy who...
Forum: Gas Checks
I've read quite a few assertions on the internet that aluminum jackets will wear down a barrel, and I think that it started with Richard Lee's book "Modern Reloading". When deciding which material...
Somebody referenced this page last year.
http://www.bear-tracker.com/caninevsfeline.html
Forum: Swaging
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Yes! Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!
This is the first thing a machinist learns about the lathe, and it is drilled into his head.
If you only learn one thing about the...
Forum: Factory Rifles
For 55 / 62 gr FMJ I use 25 gr of Win 748, which is a ball powder and meters nicely. It seems like 27 grs was a little more accurate in my 183 prefix Mini 14, but 25 gr was more accurate in my AR,...
Forum: Swaging
This may help.
http://www.carbidedepot.com/formulas-insert-d.htm
This too.
http://www.helmancnc.com/general-turning-insert-nomenclature-for-cnc-dummies/
Google "carbide insert...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I made a mistake. I just checked my old emails and found the one where I told my buddy about the Eddystone.
It was $350, not $500. I hope I didn't screw up your deal.
Sorry,
Jeff
Forum: Factory Rifles
A buddy bought one out here in California about two years ago, and I think he paid about $500. It came with a bayonet and scabbard, so I thought it was a pretty good deal. I bought one with a cut...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As far as the pink in the annealed area after cleaning, I'm not sure. I know I've had cases turn pink during cleaning experiments, and it's usually a case that is brown with patina that's been...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't know if there is a way to test your cases to see if they are too soft. I always try to stick to the guidelines of annealing at 700 - 800 degrees F and if they look similar to Sharfshuetzer's...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Light loads probably won't expand the cases.
Did you read the article in KAF's post? It's got a lot of good information. I now use tempilaq, but I have used the method described in the last two...
Forum: Swaging
Perhaps I was wrong. I'm basing my statement on the fact that I don't see any feed levers on the apron, where I would expect to see them. I see one lever on the apron that I assume is for...
Forum: Cast Boolits
When he describes the actions of his machine-
"With this setup, the neck will actually reach a temperature between 750 and 800 degrees. Remember, it's the combination of time AND temperature that...
Forum: Swaging
It's motor is 1/2 hp. I don't know about your Chinese Mini Lathe, but my harbor freight 7x10 CML has a 3/4 hp motor. I'm no mechanical engineer, and maybe there's some gearing in the Logan that...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've tried the Hornady commercial cleaner and didn't find it as effective as Simple Green or Dawn and water. I haven't tried Ed's Red, although I wouldn't use the heater if I did. I always end up...
This is close to my 92 cast load. I have a 358242, sized to .357, lubed with Javelina and loaded with Unique. I shoot a lot of FMJ with Unique in it, too. I never had any problems with the gun,...
Forum: Our Town
Once they get it, it will take less than a week. I've always got credit back on my credit card.
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 |