Explain that one to me. Ignorance or error?
Type: Posts; User: mastercast.com
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Mr. Heinlein,
First, let me tell you that I am no expert with regard to gas chromatographs.
If someone delivered one to my house and placed it on the front porch, I would have absolutely no...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Bob,
In an earlier post you stated that the above will not work with anything that will not evaporate.
Your last post states that you have used every type of gas chromatograph elution tube...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Sir,
He did not run it through a GLC....I have no idea what that is or was.
He ran it through a gas chromatograph....It vaporizes the sample and gives you a graph to determine the content of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Perhaps that is true,(I do not agree with that) but it had everything to do with the right to own fireams. If we are not able to possess or buy lead based traditional ammunition, the price will be...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sir,
That was not an imagined threat to gun rights. It was real absent comment from the public and the NRA. If you are burned out on the subject, please go live your life under a rock somewhere....
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
One of the guys that works in a local crime lab here is a bullet caster. He was having a problem getting decent bullets out of a batch of wheel weights. He took some of that "wheel weight alloy" to...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
The folks that make wheel weights are now alloying them with calcium to harden them instead of antimony. Lead with calcium content will not make a bullet that is worth a rip. The lube grooves will...
Forum: Cast Boolits
This from a friend that works in the heavy equipment/coal mining industry-
"I just heard about this and it goes much deeper than even the firarms industry. OSHA has doubled their manpower and an...
Forum: Cast Boolits
What if it is #50 on this topic....it is my considered opinion that it needed to be seen by all on this forum. Most of us do not read every post in every category listed. If it was not in the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The "KEY" to accurate shooting of BP cartridge loads is to anneal the cases the length of the bullet. Proper diameter is also important. Perhaps your 1884 shoots best with .463 is because that...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
When you shoot BP you need to soften/anneal the part of the case that holds the bullet...if not done, it will not obturate and seal the chamber..accuracy will go to patterns instead of groups.
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Folks,
Shooting at steel is dangerous, in the extreme, if not done properly.
The steel target should not fall from the top, it should swing from the bottom, toward the berm....that means all of...
Folks,
If you are using mixed cases, like most of us do, please stay about 10% below the listed maximum with regard to powder charge.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
WooooHooo! That made me laugh to the point that my wife thought I would have a stroke! I thought I had heard them all....nope!
Thanks to you both!
Mike
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I can not remember what said months ago...it was not "nasty" or even close.l
I was excoriated for it by some members of this forum because "small children" might read it.(Small children do not...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Folks,
I am curious why those that tend this site are not complaining about "NIPPLE CREAM"..Some child might want to know what that means that "reads" this site.
What next....KY Jelly? It is...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Curious,
There are over 50,000 manufacturers of batteries listed on the web. Most are from China.
"EXIDE" batteries...now made in China.
"SEARS" batteries now made in China.
TROLLING...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
China makes most of the worlds batteries. Small, large, and really large.
China makes most of the products we use in this country. Try and find something that you want, that you would be willing...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
PLEASE NOTE THAT "**** shoot" IS NOW NOT BEING EDITED.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Perhaps you shoud have read my posts in their entirety..I do not waste my time.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Most interesting...crapshoot is a word that details a game of chance...I put those words together, perhaps no prohibited words there. No censorship.
There are kindergartners here? Hmmmmm...I...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
moderator,
You changed my comment about "**** shoot"...to XXXX shoot......why?
Good God, why? A "**** shoot" is a game played with dies, with dots, etc., on them. Do you know what a ****...
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 |