Having owned around a dozen Martinis in different flavors over the years, the three I have now are the ones that "stuck to the wall": BSA 12 in absolutely mint condition, BSA International MkI (the...
Type: Posts; User: gnoahhh
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Having owned around a dozen Martinis in different flavors over the years, the three I have now are the ones that "stuck to the wall": BSA 12 in absolutely mint condition, BSA International MkI (the...
For all my .32 loading, including .32-20's, I automatically skip the expander dies that are in my die sets and go straight to the RCBS neck expander die with its simple straight section on the...
Forum: Completed Deals
All molds accounted for. Thanks fellas.
Forum: Completed Deals
#2 (358156) still available. I'll cover postage in order to wrap this up.
Forum: Completed Deals
WTS the following molds. All are in their original 50 year old boxes. None have been cast with. All came to me from a 94 year old gentleman who bought them "back in the day" with the intention of...
Forum: Military Rifles
No point in slugging the bore. Do a chamber casting to include an inch of bore. It'll tell you all you need to know - primarily throat diameter which indicates bullet diameter, and you can mic the...
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Title says it all. I have a M98 pre-war commercial Mauser bottom metal (hinged floor plate) with a snappy set of double set triggers in it. Need the sear kicker to go with it. Would be simple to make...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Cheap faux finishes have abounded on el-cheapo hardware store-grade guns since forever. No telling what H&R used at any given time in the 60's-70's. I'll never forget when, as a kid on a mission to...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Well, I guess I know what I'll be doing in my lathe tomorrow!
Made a couple miniature cannons so far:
https://i.imgur.com/Hl4e7sfl.jpg
14" barrel, .625" bore, high-tensile bronze, 1 5/8"...
1935-vintage Colt Officer's Model .22. Minty condition and came with a Colt factory letter stating the date, etc., and who the consignee was (Bekeart, in San Francisco) and the buyer (a Captain Frank...
Indeed, and it's that little bit of homework required on the part of cast bullet shooters that most newbies/neophytes/lazies disregard (present company excluded of course!), and then wail about poor...
Therein lies the best suggestion, IMO. If I could afford a couple thousand bucks to prompt them to make a run of 10K .32-20 cases I would, and sell the 9500 I don't need/want at cost to make it...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I'm amused to finally meet someone who actually owns one of these things and wants to shoot it! I've seen them languish on the discount racks in gunshops for years because nobody wanted such a short...
Forum: Military Rifles
If your 311284 bullet has a bore riding nose section too small in diameter to resist the rifling, I submit that you need a different mold. You should get definite imprints of the rifling on the nose....
.314 mold all day long. My favorite .32-20 mold is #311-105T from Accurate. I told Tom I'd be using 1:20 tin:lead and that's exactly the diameter the mold drops. Works a treat in my 1922 Colt Army...
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
For sale: HM2 6-cavity mold. #225-62. I would assume a 62 grain. Gas checked. Clean as a whistle.
Bought a long while back for use in an AR-15. Sold the rifle, forgot I had the mold until today. I...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If you wanted to stir up a lot of ill feelings with a question like that you sure succeeded!!
Forum: Military Rifles
The clips aren't hard to make. Use "springy" steel sheet metal and bend around a mandrel. Use your imagination and experiment to get the right radius and enough springiness to grip the barrel....
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Nah. In my breech seated single shot bench guns I start a virgin case oriented via a witness mark on the barrel tenon and a randomly located notch on the case rim, and put it there for every...
Yeah he should be, but on the other hand I got it for next to nothing, timing/lockup is perfect, and accuracy is superb. In other words, a darn good shooter.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
It simply eliminates one more variable. Successful bench shooting is all about eliminating variables , the minutiae as it were, not "what's your powder charge, and what bullet ya using?" Because...
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 |