It's been a while Mark, Thanks for the compliment! How's life been?
Type: Posts; User: NoZombies
It's been a while Mark, Thanks for the compliment! How's life been?
This is why I built the 22 ladybug.
Without a can it's as quiet or quieter than .22LR subsonic, with a can, it's quiet enough to shoot outside a sleeping baby's window without any fear of waking...
Forum: Castpic of the Month
Thanks!
It's a neat rifle indeed. It's a single barrel with set triggers. JP Sauer and some other German companies made this basic pattern from about 1895-WWI or so. This is a plainer model, but...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
If it's pinned, the pin heads (or head if blind pinned) need to be welded over by ATF regs.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I've made it from 38-55 brass as well, I made a forming die from an old reloading die. I made a sizing ring .250 long and having a .397 internal diameter. If I was doing it again I'd go with .395...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Glad to help! [smilie=1:
It also means that I save money on every barrel in the future, as 10" barrels used are almost always at least $100 cheaper than carbine length...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I solved my problem by getting a $200 SBR tax stamp, now all of my contender barrels are legal carbine barrels...
Forum: Castpic of the Month
I do, but not much.
160 grain bullet patched from .358 to .368 and loaded in a 9.3x57R-360 (AKA 360 Black powder express 2.25")
http://nozombies.com/patched.JPG
I shoot them in this 1897...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I've been shooting zinc in smoothbores for a little while. I like the results so far, but I need to do some more testing.
Forum: Swaging
They will end up very short. To make 115 - 125 grain bullets you'd want to start with tubes that were roughly 18-20mm long. That way you could close one end, and have a 13-15mm long jacket remaining....
The only decent accuracy I got from hollow based bullets required a custom cut mold with a diameter of .362 when cast from soft (50-1) alloy or pure lead. The smaller diameters I tried weren't pie...
Euro 36 gauge is what we call .410, so the .36 gauge stuff on the Gualandi page is correct for .410 loads.
Forum: Casting Equipment
the 4 indicates 4" of clearance below the pot for bottom pouring into molds.
Forum: Swaging
I can, but I'll need to dig some stuff out and it may be a few days. I have blank forming star crimp inserts and the Corbin 'saber tooth' dies, the BT 'notching' die I used belonged to someone else,...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I always assumed it was catalogged by a dyslexic typist, and the real name was supposed to be 20 -4.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Do you mean weld on lugs, or someone doing stub barrels starting with a donor barrel?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
That's a CH press. The company still exists and is now CH4D.
Some of those use caliber specific rams, and some use 'universal' rams that accept modern shell holders. If it's a caliber specific...
Forum: Swaging
The Corbin "saber tooth" and BT's star crimp die are very similar with the exception that the Corbn die fits very closely and is caliber specific.
Blank formng star crimp dies have the same effect...
Forum: Swaging
I have several of the 'saber tooth' types. I think your x internal punch will provide better expansion, especially in unjacketed lead.
Forum: Our Town
To a crowd that calls ammo "bullets" calling bullets "bullet tips" makes sense... to the rest of us, not so much...
Lee 6 cavity mold handles are functional, though you might have to open the bolt holes slightly (I don't recall if I needed to or not). Most MB molds will also work with 2C Lyman handles, but some MB...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The sparrow should be fine, It's rated for .22 hornet. I don't shoot GC's through my cans, but others do without issues.
Uncorking pressure (the bore pressure as the bullet exits the muzzle) is a...
If it's a K-frame, then 98% likelyhood of being a .32-20.
The caliber should be marked on the left hand side of the barrel (if it's of the vintage it sounds like) and should read .32 WCF, .32...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Special dies and special shell holders. That's correct.
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 |