The flintlock depends on low-pressure powder gases entering through the vent, so you can't reduce the vent much below normal diameter. If you tried to make a .17 flintlock long gun, I wouldn't be...
Type: Posts; User: Ballistics in Scotland
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The flintlock depends on low-pressure powder gases entering through the vent, so you can't reduce the vent much below normal diameter. If you tried to make a .17 flintlock long gun, I wouldn't be...
Forum: Leverguns
Collectors go wild on original condition, rare variations and factory engraving sometimes. I think it would be a very exceptional 1887 that would sell for anywhere near the top end of that estimate....
Forum: Leverguns
I'd agree that it is probably Rossi's fault, especially if their holes come a round figure apart in centimetres. That looks too much of an adjustment to do the way people have suggested,and had it...
Forum: Our Town
[QUOTE=GOPHER SLAYER;4407511]The Lone Ranger didn't seem to have any trouble and he cast over a small
He didn't have any trouble outdrawing people who went for their hardware first, either.
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Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Oh, and do it to someone you don't have the sort of motive to murder, which sends the police to you first. There are a lot of sleepless nights in the complications you describe. Psychopaths don't...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I suppose because people know you've got it. An off-the-record gun which you might not even have the opportunity to test, puts you in a situation where informing is a legal and remunerative business.
Forum: Our Town
Errors are cumulative. If you and the rifle are both capable of making a 1½in. group at 100 yards, a 3in. group at that distance is what you get, and that isn't going to be reliable on a deer-sized...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I think that is true, and you have nothing to fear from a case full but not compressed with coarse grained black powder. It can be compressed, though, and you will get more in that way. In fact if...
Forum: Leverguns
The caliper should be fine for this job, but it is a low pressure cartridge, and firing it may not entirely iron out the effect of the crimp. I would anneal the neck and go through a couple of cycles...
Forum: Leverguns
That cartridge looks like it could stand less of a crimp, but I think the interference begins just a shade further back than that would cause. While Winchester were probably quite good about chamber...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
That is good news, but although it pretty clearly identifies the resistance to ignition of Pyrodex as a factor, it is worth exploring the obstruction issue. Other people, including yourself, get...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
To establish if it is the channel to the powder try popping a few caps with the gun unloaded. They could be damp, or if they are too tight a fit on the nipple, part of the hammer's energy could be...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yes, the difference arose because smokeless powder was invented, and left uncontrolled, around the time Mr. Gladstone solved the Irish question.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I've never shot my .32-40 1894, but while all of the three cases named should be fine, the .38-55 is the only one that would give virtually the full case length of the originals. All the others will...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
It looks like an extremely good gun, and nicely preserved. For many years in breechloaders, people have been proclaiming the advantages of a magnum 12 over a 10, magnum 20 over a 12 and so on. That...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
In practice both coarse and fine threads are strong enough. The general rule is that the coarse thread series in the three main systems (American Unified, British Whitworth and metric) are pretty...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
A friend of mine stopped the charge of a wild boar in Turkey at six feet, with his 9x56 Mannlicher-Schoenauer. It wasn't very big, except that in those circumstances they are all big. My theory is...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Strictly speaking no bullet or aeroplane ever breaks through a barrier. of sound waves. What happens is that the velocity of sound in a medium varies with its density, being greater as the density of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Boat-tails giving superior accuracy is, although people as knowledgeable as Sierra use them almost universally for bullets in the style of he MatchKings. But boat-tails giving inferior accuracy is a...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I wouldn't let insurance weigh heavily with me. The trouble with life insurance is that they can't send the payout to your forwarding address. jmort's 2 to 5 bear deaths a year (and I suppose the...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I agree about the chances of its happening. Imagine going on an expensive trip with a bear tag and someone who isn't an experienced and recognised bear guide, and you can imagine what your chances of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That would be the French Balle D of 1898, which I believe was both the first spritzer bullet and the first boat-tail, and while there were machine-guns at that time, I think an exaggerated idea of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If this was about jacketed bullets the issue would be debatable. But about cast, it is undebatable. The reduction in drag shows up only at low velocity, so the range at which it does is variable,...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Yes, the seal is important. Metford achieved good obturation in a target discipline that didn't allow of cleaning between shots, although their number wasn't great, although his alloy was fairly...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The question is whether the misalignment is the same on all the chambers. If it isn't, there is probably wear on the extractor star, and replacing this is needed. But this would make the cylinder...
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 |