@Tim, it's a venerable Anschutz 1730 with 16 twist. It came to me with a lot of barrel pitting, which might limit the potential. The chamber is quite tight, I would not be able to chamber my bullets...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
@Tim, it's a venerable Anschutz 1730 with 16 twist. It came to me with a lot of barrel pitting, which might limit the potential. The chamber is quite tight, I would not be able to chamber my bullets...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have the 45 226 RF in both PB and GC versions. For a while I got really poor results (target pic in this old thread...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Can't quite see, are those the NOE 45 grain 226 PB?
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Not milsurp, but if you look at Beagle's write up on cast bullets in the Hornet, he used 7.5gr LilGun where a full cartridge is about 12.5gr, so around 60%. I tried this, got reasonable results...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
You seem to be exactly correct:- courtesy of the wonderful internet, it's easier to find out now than it was back then. Chapter and verse here:...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
When I was learning to fly I had trouble reaching the rudder pedals in the old biplane (I'm 5'4"). It was suggested that I could use Cathy's pedal risers. I later learned that the reason Cathy didn't...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
So finally, at long long last, I can report the result of this.
I sent the gun to the UK Remington service centre, as they told me to, so they could look at it.
It took four months and 160...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think the Matlab equivalent will be "Octave", I used to use it with Linux.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I agree with Lonegun1894: absolutely nothing to worry about with loads like that. You could use a silencer made from cardboard and get away with it.
The way I've seen it calculated is open to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just occurred to me that there could be a caveat to the airgun ring suggestion. Most euro airguns and rimfires have a flat area between the rails of the 11mm dovetail. I have an Anschutz 1730, which...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Don't know what's easily available in the US, but if you were in the UK you would just look for good quality airgun scope rings, these are 11mm as standard. I have rings like that on a Finnfire,...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Thanks to all for the comments, I appreciate it.
Randy said:
> I read what you said about your borescope experience, however are you really sure what you think you saw, was what was actually what...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Thanks to all for the suggestions.
> Does your borescope have the ability to take pictures?
No just a standard hawkeye, unfortunately. I don't think I'll find anything better on my little...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Hoping someone can offer me hard data on this.
Yesterday I brought home a NIB .222, Remington 700 BDL.
I had a look at it with a borescope. Crown not great, something that looks like corrosion...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I'm fairly sure the PID I'm using (an Ebay cheapo) is a Rex 100 or clone. It came set up to max out at 400c, but I found some detailed programming instructions somewhere online and discovered that I...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Agree with KYCaster, I've dissolved antimony in lead with no problem, you just have to be patient.
OP, I'm interested in your source of antimony, was it expensive? I bought some from Ebay and it...
Forum: AirGuns
Not sure whether this is the sort of thing you're after, but just in case:
Howard Buckley (UK) has a couple of published air rifle designs, in the form of books. They use standard air rifle...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
And don't forget a large pinch of patience. Stir it long enough and it'll go in.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have a suspicion I know what this is about. Gold and silver are dense. Most dense things aren't gold or silver, but like Nigerian scammers, they only have to strike lucky one time in a thousand.
...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I had one slight concern about this recently. My workshop is an old barn, in a very windy place, so if I open the door and a window enough of a gale howls through that it always seemed sufficient for...
OK, not a Lee. With the Lyman it's pretty smooth, with the NOE I sometimes fumble, but I prefer it to banging the sprue plate with a mallet, and it gives more tactile feedback about how hard the...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Didn't write it down, but IIRC my guesstimate (it's just off the bottom of the scale) was 180 when held patiently in water at a rolling boil. I may now have messed it up completely using brute force...
Forum: Casting Equipment
So, I was using a Tel-Tru and casting 224s at a comfortable 720F with a Lee pot (though there were often brief excursions over 800 when the pot got low). Then I bought a very cheap Chinese PID + K...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I did this with a Lyman 225438, though I was only taking a bit off to lose some slight damage, so I didn't have to worry about modifying pin/screw hole depths. The really difficult bit was getting...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've recently been on the same quest.
I have NOE 225107 and Lyman 225438 (new manufacture).
The 107 is working better for me than the 438, but I believe this is because the mould is better. My...
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 |