Couple questions on the post above. 1. Why not 2 cycle oil for outboards? 2. Why synthetic, other than a lot more expensive?
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Couple questions on the post above. 1. Why not 2 cycle oil for outboards? 2. Why synthetic, other than a lot more expensive?
Forum: Our Town
SW Iowa has a lot of large farms and rolling hills. Most of the time if you just ask the farmer will let you shoot if it is a safe area to begin with. I can shoot right outside by back door as it...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I must have done something wrong as the fix didn't work for me. It shows up in the add-ons manager but still cannot see the photos. Using Firefox.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thanks much jeepyi. Nice manual, now to figure out how to print it out in booklet form ? ? I did find that the parts are all there for my 45. I put a hair dryer up against the lube tube and...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thank for the info earlmck. I used to have a 4500 many moon ago but forgot just how they worked. This one is full of dried up lube so I think the first step would be a hair dryer on the tube and...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have a 45 I plan to use mainly for sizing. It is tight with no excess play in the rods, etc. Sizing works great so far. I want to clean it up and get rid of the old lube. The cap to the lube...
Forum: Our Town
I screen 3/4" road stone through 1/2" hardware cloth for my garden railroad. I lay the screen, 2X3' tapered to 10" on one open end over a wheel borrow and add the rock slowly. Fines all fall...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Didn't do a very good job of explaining what I was after did I. Knight .50 cal muzzle loader. Knight Rifles advised a good target shooting bullet would be a .458 cast bullet between 240 and 300 g...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Started to clean up an old Lyman 45 Lub/Sizer. Old dried out lube from not being used in many years I am sure.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Trying to get a .459 mold in the 240 to 300g range. Mostly for fun type shooting. Only mold I can come up with is a 400 or 405 g bullet. I can size the .459 down to the .458 to use in a sabot. ...
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 |