Why not just cast your bullets, lube and size them to .356 and maybe you'll get the same results as the ones you bought. I've powder coated with the same results you are getting and now I'm fine with...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Why not just cast your bullets, lube and size them to .356 and maybe you'll get the same results as the ones you bought. I've powder coated with the same results you are getting and now I'm fine with...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My son has shot quite a few blackbears over bait. A couple years ago he decided he was going to shoot one with his new .460 S&W it took seven shots on a 350 lb bear before he quit moving. He hasn't...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Do yourself a favor and call Montana Vintage Arms. They can sell you a period correct mount and scope.You might be into it for a few hundred bucks but it will be something you can be proud to have on...
Let em cool. spray them with a good rust preventive oil. wrap them tightly in plastic wrap and then into a Ziploc freezer bag or original box. when ready to use a good spraying with brake cleaner...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
As long as I keep track of my gambling debts my wife is happy. I can cast, load, coat, and shoot as much as I want to. Lifes to short.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I never whack my sprue plates with anything I just push them with a gloved hand. I do use a piece of wooden 1 inch dowel with a few wraps of tape to beat the #@() out of the hinge pin if a boolit...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I see your in the PNW. Does your 200 yard range happen to be custer? If it is we`ll have to do some messages and meet at the range to do some BPCR shooting.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I found a pistol casing on the end of a rod was the perfect diameter for driving out the front end of the separated casing. if my memory is worth a #### it might have been a .40 S&W driven out from...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I had the same thing happen about 2 years ago when I loaded a bunch of 45-90 cases with schuetzen and compressed them with a wad. This was with no boolit seated and I let them sit on the shelf...
Forum: Casting Equipment
last week I was casting with my lee pot when I noticed a red glow on the top of my mold. I bent down and saw that there was a bright red hot spot on the bottom of my pot just to the left of my spout....
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
OK if you read my very first post it clearly states that there was no bullet seated. the reason for that is when you put your load together you compress your powder and wad to the right depth so when...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
No, cleaning is'nt the issue. This whole problem is purely an issue of storing loaded rounds without a bullet seated and having black powder soak r. up moister. I have many casings stored that have...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
There was no bullet lube involved. I hand seat the bullets as I shoot. I compress the powder with a wad just to the point the the bull it of choice is just kissing the lands.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I finally got out and shot those same shells in two different rifles with totally dry chambers. The same casings loaded with schutzen separated again. I went home and bent a 90 on the end of a rigid...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I'm going to go out behind the garage and shoot some of these loads into the cedar stump just to see what they will do with a completely dry chamber. That might just be my problem. the day that my...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I was wipeing the bore quite liberally with prestone which is slick as a whistle. one more piece of the puzzle.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I figured it out today. I sliced a 45-90 case lengthwise that sat in my garage through the winter of 2017. the casing was loaded with shutzen lightly compressed with a veg wad. the casing was eroded...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I went shooting today after quite some time of work schedule not allowing it. I had fifty 45-70 shells and twenty five 45-90 shells that had been sitting in my garage for about a year and a half....
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
automotive polishing compound takes care of it quick. if its really bad try rubbing compound followed by polishing compound.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
1 rotten turkey and 6 gunnysacks of bread to start. after that 6 gunysacks of bread a week for 6 weeks. you will have the big daddy sleeping next to the bait while all of the younger bears sneek in...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
if you never shoot jacketed j-words through it you will never have to admit you have shot j- words through it.
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
I use 4gr. of red dot, then cut awad out of a styrofoam meat tray with the case mouth. push the overpowder wad against the powder then add walnut shell tumbling media leaving enough room for an over...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I just spray my molds with 3 in 1 oil and store them in a plastic bag. when I'm ready to cast again I hit them with break cleaner and they're ready to go
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 |