Next time try a full load of 35 grains and soft lead if those were hard.
Type: Posts; User: Nobade
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Next time try a full load of 35 grains and soft lead if those were hard.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have several tons of wheelweight metal stashed at my house in Albuquerque. I'd be glad to trade you one for one for the entire batch. I always am looking for soft lead.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
It will be just fine in the revolver. Lack of lube is much more of an issue in rifles.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Indian Joe, I tried to say the same thing but you said it better. This stuff is easy, just has a couple of rules to follow.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I agree, you would probably end up with a much softer lube. Maybe need a bit more beeswax.
As a source for mutton tallow, I found out my local meat cutter does a lot of lambs in the spring and was...
The trick is .4641 times the diameter of the bore (or ID of the shotcup) to get the ideal size for stacking in threes.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Good BP lube helps keep the fouling soft so it gets blown out of the muzzle and not accumulate in the bore as a hard crust. When you get the hard buildup, it resizes the bullets and both kills...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
That '58 Remington he is shooting is more difficult to clean than your Uberti SAA. OK, not difficult but more involved. It looks like you have already bought a conversion cylinder, but at any rate...
Forum: Military Rifles
I am sure lobbying had a lot more to do with this decision than performance or practicality. When you are the only one making the guns and the ammo, you have an interest in it being adopted.
I'm...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Since Hodgdon sold Goex, all they have now is that new type of fad smokeless powder which we all know will fall out of fashion before long. So no monopoly.
Forum: Military Rifles
How exciting. They have managed to do what Burris has been doing for the last 10 years or so with their Eliminator scope.
That new round is going to be incredibly expensive to manufacture...
At our club anyway, since pistol caliber levergun uses the same course of fire but is way easier to make hits, everybody went to that because making hits is fun. I did both for a long time but...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Neat! Nice find. The false muzzle looks like it is set up to use a cross patch. Two thin strips of paper that fit in the cut out slots. The bullet will depend on the twist rate of the rifling and...
Forum: Military Rifles
Are they using the SPC or the new SIG Fury? The SPC isn't even close to a 7.62x51.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
You are right, you don't want to press the fines together or you are making a rocket engine. Just like if you light a pressed puck, it doesn't burn very fast. But take granulated pressed powder and...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
After learning about those Bartholow cartridges I have been meaning to try that. I need to make a mold/form for them first, then some nitrocellulose glue to hold them together. I'm pretty sure it...
I didn't know anybody was still shooting IHMSA. I was really into it through the 80's and 90's but everybody in Albuquerque seemed to give it up. I shot NRA silhouette for a while after that and the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I bought a 336 chambered for 35 Remington that had a gouge in the chamber and wouldn't extract a fired case. I rechambered it to 358 Win, and opened up the bolt face slightly to fit. It runs 308...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
I always crowned octagons just like normal barrels after threading. 11 deg. cut then a ever slight chamfer to break the edge of the rifling to prevent cleaning rod damage. And yes, 4 jaw chuck and...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yes they are and you must be extremely careful while handling them.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
The crock pot is the deal for making tallow. Just let it go until done. Skim and filter and you're there.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I had a 35x30-30 for a while. the deal with dies is to use a 38-55 to size the body when needed and a 357 mag to size the neck. Can seat bullets with a 358 seater.
Sorry for the thread hijack...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
That's pretty much what my normal load in the Springfield Trapdoor does with the same bullet, and it is plenty powerful for anything you might encounter. 70gr. FFg + Lee 405HB gets the job done.
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 |