To the right of that crown stamp in your photo is a "broad arrow", which is a British military proofmark.
In all likelihood, that gun was produced as a standard blue revolver for WWI service with...
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To the right of that crown stamp in your photo is a "broad arrow", which is a British military proofmark.
In all likelihood, that gun was produced as a standard blue revolver for WWI service with...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
What firelapping will do for you is scour more at the chamber end, and less toward the muzzle as the bullet gets compressed. This could be a positive in that you'll end up with a very slight...
With the world shifting to 9mm as "The Standard", production numbers of everything else seem to be decreasing, which is only going to drive the per-round cost up. Given that the .32 and .380 still...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You wheel weights will let you run .357 / .44 velocities as is.
A gas check will let you soften that up and keep your velocities.
Linotype is kind of like wheel weight on steroids in that it...
You know. . .they make mouse traps for mice. We don't have to shoot them anymore. :kidding:
I've gone through similar thoughts with a .22 K-Hornet. Definitely an educational project, but it left...
I'm there with the automatics.
I'd comfortably go there with the hunting revolvers.
I'm not quite yet comfortable enough with the current state of durability of the optics and mounts to go...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Yup. That's the right idea. As others have mentioned, with a wheel weight smelt, it's not just the lead, it's all the reasonable suspicion of and unknown crap stuck to them.
The chimney idea...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Since you have a pretty solid idea of where you want your bore and groove diameters to be, you'll probably do best going straight to the manufacturers and tell them what you want. If they have a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I tend to regard the 9mm and .38 as "cartridges of quantity" that get cast for and loaded in large numbers to fill up large quantities of free range brass. Since you generally know how much brass...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I worked the gun shop scene from '92 to '05. At the start of that, we still had the Chinese stuff coming in, and with the '91 crash of the Soviet Union and its economy, the Russian surplus guns and...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
My experience is slightly secondhand, and a sample of one, so take it with a hefty chunk of salt...
My Dad tinkered with one and eventually got it to shoot, but ended up naming the rifle "Job" in...
I prefer the OEM's with inserts, but the wood Hogues with no finger grooves ain't bad if you like something a little thinner side-to-side.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I'd also be inclined to try a small batch of them at 4/1 lead/mono, because you certainly don't need WW for 825fps .45 Auto. My only concern would be about reducing the tin content to where fillout...
+1 on Outpost75's recommendation. I'd put in a request to Tom to leave off the bevel base (or just get the 240E), and tumble lube grooves are my personal preference, but you aren't going to get...
I never have gotten around to casting for my 10mm, but have come to prefer the LFN style for .45, 9mm, .380, etc... The common thread with these bullets is that they are basically a round nose...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
As you say, it's going to be fine and you're worried about nothing.
An absolutely inconceivable number of pistol-caliber lever actions were run on 9-10 BHN lead/tin alloys back in the day. The...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Dilute the monotype with 3x pure lead, and you should end up pretty close to the classic wheelweight with 2% tin. Propel with 5 grains of Bullseye.
Forum: Factory Rifles
Matt85 is in the orchestra. . .
He plays the BA-THOOM. :mrgreen:
I always figured the old English gunsmiths were hiring Japanese bonsai tree gardeners to train their walnut trees to grow...
On a 35 year old mag. . . ?
As mentioned, the earliest ones, they wouldn't drop free, or at least wouldn't drop free until empty. They'd swell a little when loaded, and my guess would be that...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Accurate Molds has several bullets labeled for the .348 that have roughly similar noses, but differ in weight by varied shank lengths. These are in Tom's catalog in the 35-220 to 35-300 range.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
You're not getting any bad advice from what I'm seeing.
One of the key functions - perhaps the key function - of a gas check is to act as a driving key at higher speeds than would otherwise be...
Forum: Military Rifles
314299 or 316299 depending on the dimensions of the throat/bore in question, in front of 5744 for a tad over 2000 fps.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Hoping the photos actually attach. . .
I'd have to make a trip to where the press lives to remind myself what I actually did for flaring of brass the first time it's loaded. . .
But the short...
Forum: Cast Boolits
It all comes down to marketing.
Commercial cast is, or at least was, a lot harder than it needed to be mainly for shipping reasons. If customers opened the boxes to find a bunch of bullets that...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Delkal's laid down some good advice. Your wheelweight might take a couple weeks to settle, but isn't likely to start harder than 11-12BHN, or age to anything beyond about 13-14 BHN.
I sent 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 |