I used to get surge tubing from the HS them lab. It provided good power and when used with 000 buckshot it became formidable. We used to have guinea hens as watch dogs and bug eaters. They would...
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Forum: AirGuns
I used to get surge tubing from the HS them lab. It provided good power and when used with 000 buckshot it became formidable. We used to have guinea hens as watch dogs and bug eaters. They would...
Forum: AirGuns
I have one of the 177 versions and it will group Crossman 10.5s under an inch at 107 yds. The drop is about 4' from a 25-30 yd zero. The pellets will stick in a sheet of plywood with the skirts still...
Forum: AirGuns
Cleaning the barrel may provide some surprising results. And scopes fail more than we realise.
Forum: AirGuns
I bought one of these several years ago in 177. It was on sale and was attractive. Couldn't tolerate the open sights so I put an aperture on it and it shot amazingly flat and accurate. After a while...
Forum: AirGuns
I can relate, if kids now what I did then there would be a steady steream of LE, feds and militery looking for the source!!!!
Forum: AirGuns
And they have forgotten that Audubon was a hunter and almost all his specimens were 'collected' in the appropriate manner.
I don't know about grackles but crows are covered by a treaty with...
Forum: AirGuns
Haven't looked into the issue but almost every Gamo air gun available has some form of moderator and use the quiet level of shooting as one of their advertising items. I don't know if they are welded...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The Rosi '92 is a solid piece of machinery. The 454Casul runs over 50K PSI routinely. I only have one 45 mould for a 255 Kieth style bullet and it doesn't feed that well in the 92 unless you snap the...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
The video is quite interesting in that the bullet exits the bore "clean" without the puff smoke seen with almost all videos showing the firing of a bullet. I guess when you put a bore fitting "cork"...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Back a long time ago, maybe 60s or 70s outboard motor gear lube contained a significant amount of whale oil.
Easily obtained vegetable oil with and excellent lubricity is castor oil. At one time...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I believe the treaty that establishes a hunting season for crows has a disclaimer that allows them to be "hunted" if they are threatening livestock, poultry etc or causing damage to crops. In those...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I was up in an abandoned board tree stand that had a cedar tree growing nearly thru it. I had a pair of kinglets start feeding in the cedar. Kinglets are tiny, think humming bird size, birds that eat...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Just a mention here. I've spent more time than I like trailing deer in woods, fields, marshes and some of the worst briar patch swamps you could imagine. What Ive seen on numerous occasions when you...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
At one point I could introduce you to a Rottweiler that had been shot in the head at point blank range with 12 ga birdshot. I cleaned and flushed the wound, put in a drain and loaded it up with ABs. ...
Forum: AirGuns
How does the Weihrauch series compare to the old Beeman R series. I still have an R10 5mm
I had a collection of Beeman catalogues at one time and someone not versed in the ways of finer efforts of...
Forum: AirGuns
I bought one of these several years ago, from Midway. They were clearance at 2 something. This one has the Rubbermaid style stock and is really heavy. I put an aperture sight on it to start and was...
Butting in but, my 44 shoots .452" bullets, I find that H110/296 is tops in velocity and accuracy is second to none. Recoil and blast are second to none. I find the loads have to stay in the upper...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Started somewhere back in the 50's as an uncontrolled teenager. The things we did back then---without hurting anyone including ourselves. Used a Loverin design 55gr 22 cal GC with cookie cutter and a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
No, I traded that thing off a long time ago. That worked.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I was thinking about this the other day and was just wondering if anyone can put it all into good perspective. Used to be I could remember all the good details so I never wrote any thing down. Now...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Same problem with a lot of Remington 7 1/2s back in the late 80's. Several pitted on the radius during competition and I didnt see it until cleanup.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I spent a lot of time in the late 50s shooting anything I could load in a 222 Rem. I had a lovering design mold that I recall a 55gr and the gas checks were frustrating to deal with. I think a lot...
Forum: Leverguns
I can't say much about Uberti or Chiapa except that I saw a Chiapa 22 pistol that broke after 3 boxes of LR ammo. I have SS '92 in 45LC and so does my son. I stoned on hard Arkansas on some flats...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just doing some research on Alcan and stumbled on this. My experience w AL7 has been very good. Ive used it in the past for 20a and 12 ga duck loads-alas no more. Now Ive been slowly going thru a 3#r...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Ive been using the matching tag system. There is always a paper slip in the powder measure or in the dipper pot. The slip usually has the current load written on it. When the powder is returned to...
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 |