When I used one to clean the barrel of my M96 Swedish Mauser, over time the rifling wore the tornado brush wire so that the brush fell apart and I had a bunch of little half circles of stainless wire.
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
When I used one to clean the barrel of my M96 Swedish Mauser, over time the rifling wore the tornado brush wire so that the brush fell apart and I had a bunch of little half circles of stainless wire.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
First the adapters were just inserted into a 30'06 chamber and 308 was shot in the Garand until they found out that sometimes the adapter would extract with the empty cartridge casing.
Then they...
Forum: Vintage Ammo
RCBS has the cherry to cut a mold for the Italian Vetterli, and will not make any molds with it because it doesn't have a part number.
A couple of years ago I tried to get RCBS to make me a mold...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have one also and besides the screws there are two wooden dowels driven into the stock to secure it to the receiver.
I haven't found a good way to remove the dowels yet.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Wonder if steaming the depression would do any good at raising it.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Next time use purple, Loctite 222.
It is made for screws under a 1/4 inch in diameter.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Well, at that price it would be worth it to get a couple to try.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
From the notches in the barrels, I bet it is a French pinfire shotgun.
The shells had a pin perpendicular to the case head that would fire the primer when pushed towards the shell by the hammer on...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Brake Fluid?
It works on car paint.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Where is the NOE Group Buy for the boolit mentioned on the first page>
I looked in Active Group Buys and couldn't find it.
Thanks!
Forum: Cast Boolits
What is the headstamp of the cartridge in the fifth picture down around 5 o'clock next to the 30'06 tracer round lying on its' side?
Probably the best place to ask as to value is on a cartidge...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
If the group buy is still open, I will take one mould.
dominicfortune00 at yahoo dot com
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
From the guys at Swissriflesdotcom, Reloder 17 is the original powder for 7.5x55.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Nice!
Be careful when you clean the bore, they are teflon coated.
Don't ask how I know.[smilie=1:
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Is there any roughness in the chamber which could cause a fired cartridge casing to be hard to extract?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If you use power tools, make sure to wear a dust mask because the power tools will put a lot more lead dust in the air than a file.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I have had five rifles stolen from my house at 15401 in 2012.
1. Mauser Model 71/84, s/n 2077
2. Dutch Beaumont-Vitali Model 71/88, s/n 553 on the top of the receiver ring, 1875 stamped on the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Years ago when I had a ML, I was taught to fill a five gallon bucket with the hottest water i could get out of the tap, add isopropyl alcohol, put the breech end of the barrel in the bucket and pump...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Being a HBHP boolit it is swaged rather than cast.
Worked pretty good in 455 Webleys, hence the name 'Manstopper'.
Forum: Military Rifles
Well, maybe the wood absorbed some moisture on the rainy day which made the stock swell and changed something that affects your accuracy for the better.
Forum: Military Rifles
Hard to tell what really happened to it without a chamber cast.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I soak rusty stuff in Ballistol and it dissolves the rust off.
It also does not remove bluing.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
4 ought steel wool will polish glass without scratching.
Forum: Group Buy Archives
I'll take one in .455.
dominicfortune00 at yahoo dot com
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