Excellent idea...I got me a project for tomorrow now :)
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Excellent idea...I got me a project for tomorrow now :)
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have always wanted to set up a Pro1000. The only issue I have with it is that it only has 3 stations instead of 4. Eliminating the possibility of a factory crimp die. I wish Lee would engineer a 4...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I agree with the assessment on the Safety Scale...I was never able to make the thing work right. IN as much as their bench mounted rotodump powder measure is concerned. I use the weigh and dump...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
It tickles me to see how much Lee gets pounded on most any forum...yet when their stuff comes up for sale, it is snatched up quicker than just about any other brand. In fact, Lee had to spend a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have a black iron pot that I mix up a dose of Brownells bluing salts in and hang all my dies on wire wrapped on a dowel and run them through the bath. Then a final dip in an oil bath.
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Just toss in 65 grains of 3FG and ram a 405 grain lead chunk over it and have a blast
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Right...I got my loads mixed up here. Glad I wasn't loading 45/70 that day
Forum: Prepper Talk
If you looked at my home, you would see the product of System Induced Paranoia, which it turns out was not so misdirected in the first place. It took me most of two decades to build it, but believe...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I load mine with this recipe. 74 gr. Hodgdon 4895, 500 gr. Hornady, 2161 fps.
Recoil, in round numbers. A nominal 30-06 Springfield runs about 15 ft/lbs.
The 7.5 lb Ruger No. 1 shooting the 500...
Forum: Leverguns
I will say this, even though it is out of context for this discussion. I finally managed to get the things back up and running. They have also managed to deplete my entire stock of .357 Mag ammo that...
Forum: Leverguns
Thanks for the heads-up! I love my little girls dearly, the little heathens they are. They now have their own reloading room. I recently traded a 45/70 for a Lee LoadMaster so they could load their...
Forum: Leverguns
I agree with the Braztech issue. Due to the fact that my daughters put their little demonic heads together and bought a matching pair of the 92 versions in 357mag and set about taking the things...
Forum: Leverguns
I inherited an old 92 from my granddad. I load the thing with as much 3f as the case will hold and ram a 250gr water dropped WW on top of it sized to 452 and lubed with NRA 50/50. Not sure what the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I set up a recurring purchase order with my suppliers. They have authorization to ship me alternating orders every month. Took me a year to get it all set up, but now I keep my loading/casting room...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
II had my doubts about the Lee LoadMaster...but after some tinkering, figuring, and finally some mods...the thing works like a champ. Their old Turret press usually manages to give me a case of the...
Forum: Military Rifles
This is simple....chuck up an over-sized piece of drill rod in the handy little lathe Harbor Freight sells, start taking off 1/1000's until it just fits in the bore, making sure to leave an inch or...
Forum: Military Rifles
My point being, stocks got broken in combat. They were typically replaced with whatever was at hand.
Forum: Military Rifles
The other issue I have with this rifle is the fact that all the work appears to be Armory. Not done for looks, but for utility. The work is obviously aged. I wonder if this was a modification done...
Forum: Military Rifles
I was curious about the scant stock on this one. This is one of five that came from my fathers estate that he left to me. The scope is a Unertl. What confuses me is that the stock is properly stamped...
Forum: Military Rifles
Anybody know what the approximate value of this rifle might be? It is all original with matching numbers and accessories. Need a second opinion...96682
Forum: Military Rifles
No doubt...I love that purple stuff, but am scared to death to get it anywhere near my guns after a similar experience...
Forum: Military Rifles
I bought a Spanish 95 in 7x57 that suffered from that very issue. I solved it by melting candle wax and plugging the chamber with it. Filled the barrel up with straight household ammonia and let it...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I don't know of anyone is even following this post any more, but I do make my own powder and wanted to comment. I always leave my 'slurry' over night in the fridge before drying it and final...
Mine are labeled on the individual boxes they came in.
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 |