I actually have TWO of them...
Type: Posts; User: RCE1
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
I'm curious about why you didn't face off the barrel markings prior to gluing and chambering. Also, isn't the end with the markings typically intended by the maker to be the muzzle end? Probably...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I made one myself out of a piece of brass bar rail tubing. It was a perfect fit, plus eliminates having to worry about static. Eventually, I stopped worrying about static charges igniting black...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
You ought to shoot black powder with it. Believe it or not, it's easier to clean than smokeless. That's how you get real accuracy out of these cartridges.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I'm sure making a lug would be interesting and most likely a challenge, but what a lot of the old timers did was take a cast off barrel and cut the breech end off with the lug, then bore it out to...
Forum: Our Town
I had a flashlight/taser thingy in my glove box. I was rummaging around looking for something and managed to taze my finger. It hurt like he....
Are you using a dipper or bottom pouring? I always had better results with dipper casting heavy single cavity moulds like this.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
My Shiloh is a No.1 Sporting Rifle which was originally in .45/70. I had it extended to .45/90 with no regrets, although looking back on it, .45/70 was probably all I really needed. I shot .45/70...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I bought 1000lbs of roof flashing from a friend in the hardware business a number of years ago. It takes some doing when you move, but the quality is excellent and the form factor convenient.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I have a couple that were breeched up by Vern Juenke. They are tight. He used to adapt Sako .17 cal barrels to Contender frames before anybody made .17 barrels. Interesting guy.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
When I was competing in BPCR matches, I ended up wiping between shots. I found it actually faster than blow-tubing, more consistent and not that hard to equip yourself for. I used pre-moistened...
Forum: Rimfire Area
My mother gave my dad a Marlin 39A as an engagement present. She then gave him a Colt Woodsman for a wedding gift. Cool gal, my mother is. She drove an MG TC when they were courting, which she...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Most likely it has to do with where the spring that indexes the staff is? Tang sights are designed to protect themselves from heavy recoil by folding forward. You have to put them back into...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I boil off the lube on the stove. I usually use Dawn and add some automatic dishwasher soap as well.
Wait for the missus to go to a yoga class, though.
Forum: Our Town
We have HF all over the place. Driving to work, I pass several. I have a number of their things, among them their 12" compound miter saw. It's nice. Their wrench and socket sets can are generally...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you don't get the feeling it's a hard, gritty, creepy trigger, it's probably been lightened.
Forum: Our Town
I liked the movie a lot and think they did a very good job getting the guns right. I did notice, however, that there was a sleeve of rifle cartridges on the buttstock of his shotgun in one scene,...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I hate to be negative, but when I saw the first posting in this thread, I was wondering how you were going to enjoy that rifle. It's pretty and I actually like Pedersolis, but the .45/120 is not for...
Forum: Casting Equipment
From my experience, temperatures don't change that fast until you add a bunch of cold lead, then it gets slow again while it heats back up. Some run two pots, one to cast with and one to pre-heat...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
That looks like fun. I've done 1885 Winchesters, Borchardts, Ballards and Martinis, but never a roller. Those Swedish actions are a nice place to start. I like that cartridge, too.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Plastic pellets. I got mine in the sewing section of my local WalMart.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I just installed mine into a Hornady Lock N Load bushing. Works great even upside down, the way it's supposed to be threaded in.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I thought I'd try this system out on my new-ish Lee Classic Cast O-ring press. It's a perfect fit and seems to work pretty well, but I was wondering what one would use as a wrench to tighten it down...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I melted the first three test runs with my thrift shop toaster oven. Thermostat sits right at 300, polymer melts after 2-3 minutes and I take it out at 10. If I go to 350 on the thermostat, I get...
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 |