Springfield Armory's 1911 MILSPECS had two variations, each with different fixed sight designs.
The "MILSPEC" had higher and wider fixed sights. The front sight was about 1/1O" wide and about...
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Springfield Armory's 1911 MILSPECS had two variations, each with different fixed sight designs.
The "MILSPEC" had higher and wider fixed sights. The front sight was about 1/1O" wide and about...
I have more than one Springfield Armory 1911a1 MILSPECS, all 45 acp and "blued" ( non-stainless). Frames and slides are forged steel and milled. No castings. All of mine have a "NM" prefix on the...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Marlin Camp carbine?
https://www.guns.com/news/2019/06/27/forgotten-woods-gun-the-marlin-camp-carbine
Forum: Muzzleloading.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YPg1GQcB0
Forum: Hunting with CB's
What did the raccoon do to you to shoot it? Seems like a wanton action.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
What did the raccoon do to you to have you shoot it?
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My wife had a co-worker (female) who has shot 22 deer with 22 shots in something like 24 seasons up here in Maine (where you are allowed 1 deer per year, whether it is by archery, firearms or muzzle...
Forum: Leverguns
Size to throat diameter.
Shoot the longest bullet you can cycle. Gives you the most bearing surface for rifling "bite" on the bullet.
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I used to run the James D. Julia Auction House firearms division. One of our firearms consultants was the late Frank Sellers, who wrote the definitive book on Sharps rifles....
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
FWIW, cigarette paper is very high in sheet ash, about 25-30% calcium carbonate.
Calcium carbonate is added to the cigarette paper in high levels to slow and control the burn of the paper on...
Forum: Cast Boolits
An overlooked load is a 148 grain, .358" hard cast, double -ended, solid base , hard cast wadcutter at a MV of 850+ fps. It is called the "full charge wadcutter."
It meets the FBI penetration...
Forum: Factory Rifles
The Savage Palma rifle has a 1-13" twist, 308 Win-chambered barrel. You would like think it would be a great cast bullet shooter. Anyone have a chance to play with one shooting cast bullets? Would...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Fwiw, I think the 375 JDJ is a very interesting cartridge. Wish Marlin would have made a factory offering with it. Who knows, may the new owner, Ruger, will do it.
do a search for "fire lapping".
Shoot a couple of control groups with your "normal load", as baseline.
see if you have thread choke (lube your bore, oil/grease your bullet (ie sizing...
Give consideration of what style bullet you will shoot with your 1911( presuming it is a 45 acp). Roundnose? SWC?
Then look at the feed lip design of the magazine. The lip designs are:
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Forum: Factory Rifles
Hope Ruger makes the 1894 44 mag rifle with a quality barrel having: groove diameter of 0.429" with a groove depth of 0.004" (not 0.4315" diameter with 0.025" deep grooves as Marlin does), AND a ...
Do your bullets ( not loaded cartridge) fall through the cylinder throats, or do the need a push with a pencil? I seem to remember reading that some s&w model 25 had large throats ( .454"++). If...
4 inch S&W 629-3, small Pachmayr Presentation grips. It is accompanied by a JM-stamped Marlin 1894 44 mag with Ballard rifling (with 2.5x Weaver Japan mfg scope, very clear/sharp image).
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It has not been mentioned yet. You may have an issue of thread choke. The bore /groove diameter inside the frame (throat) may be squeezed down 0.001-0.002", as the threaded barrel is tighter in...
I have owned and shot 4" and 6" versions of the S& W 586 and 686 (no dash and -4 variants). Liked them, but ultimately sold them all.
I decided to keep and shoot my S&W 629-3 , 4" bbl, 44 mag. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Phosphoric acid is also in most soda soft drinks. I would bet you could use generic ( low cost) 7-up as a brass cleaner ( could use darker soda such as cola, but it may stain the brass, so use...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Keep it safe, simple and cheap.
Use vinegar (acetic acid), and a squirt of dish detergent (Dawn) as a surfactant (removes/separates small particles).
you don't even have to use vinegar full...
I vote 45 acp. The 1911 was designed for it / around it.
I picked up a Springfield 1911 MILSPEC (not the GI version which has the tiny front site and small rear sight). The MILSPEC version has...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Alternative load until you get your cast bullets squared away...
.308" Speer 170 grain flat point /32 grains Win 748.
Shoots near moa in my 30-30 Marlin 336a micro-groove ( 24" barrel, 1976...
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 |