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As I understand it ,the bullet dies are the expensive part ,and needing repolishing every so often at a quoted price of $1000..........there is no need for a hydraulic press power unit to be 3 phase...

The Spanish tried to blow up a rolling block as part of selection trials ..........with barrel plugged ,and 270 gr of powder ,the gun could not be blown up.....This trial is widely documented.

As Ive read ,it will be impossible to 'hose' bullets with the new guns...........if you dont have an acquired target ,the gun wont fire at all.........the gun fires when the optics see the set...

The 303 blackpowder round had a solid compressed pellet of blackpowder weighing 71grs ..........there is no way that much loose blackpowder could be loaded into the case ...........Both blackpowder...

Once you own your own house and are settled ,you are pretty stable ........young people who cant even think about buying a house,and pay half their pay in rent are permanently angry about ...

I was critical to the continued functioning of the business I worked for ......both the partners knew it well,but being skinflints was so ingrained with them ,they refused to secure my further...

House prices here are insane ..(not that Im complaining) .....an old house with a fallen in roof and derelict for 15 years sells at auction for $2.4 million........A house with converted chicken...

The only thing Ive ever made any money from is land .......I recently sold my junkyard for over a million,I bought the land in 1980 for $12,000 and included in that was tons of scrap metal and an old...

As a kid I picked strawberries and beans for a few cents an hour .........I was able to buy guns and old motorbikes with that .........first real job was IIRC about $40 a week ..$1 an hour.

For sure .....the blocks are high carbon steel ,and hardened ..........and if you weld they will turn glass hard and need to be annealed to drill .....if you break off a drillbit inside on a hard...

If you buy reagent grade its going to be a lot more expensive than industrial ......but it will also be 100% pure ..........my 1c worth is that anything you can make explosive out of is watered down...

I got my last job at 50 ......pair of skinflints paid me labourers wage for a plant mechanic.........then they would make a big deal of a 50c raise .......pretty soon ,I was keeping the whole place...

Incidentally,for the home experimenter ,one practical barrel for these guns is the large ring 98..........the 98 thread is 1.1"x 12 ,the Mannlicher is 1.0625"x12 ............so by using a thread...

Some of the old time gunsmith books described methods of enlarging bores and rifling,but they entailed lots of work and a good deal of mechanical knowledge........I very much doubt a rebore would...

i was probably lucky ...I got a lee loader for 44-40 ,it was hopelessly wrong ,might have done 38-40 ...........However ,44-40 dont need more than a reprime to reload ,the case necks are always tight...

The noise from brakes has just about caused the closure of the local range ...........they wont ban brakes (say they cant) so they are down to 308 as the max caliber usable there to stay within the...

Well ,there s a funny thing ...a Lee cast iron press is now $100 more expensive than a RCBS........when I bought my Lee ,they wernt quite $100,and the RCBS was $400.............yeah ,I know...

6.5x54 MS ammo is available ...........id warn against altering 303 rimmed cases to rimless ..........or indeed ,altering any rimmed case .

You could still buy a 94 in 32 spec in 1973 when I bought mine ............It was probably discontinued in 1982 ..........although the commeratives were in 32spec sometimes for many years .

Martinis can generally be converted from 22rf to CF by simply raising the breech block a small ammount ...........while the BSA Cadet block will fit the 12/15 ,they are not commonly seen as spares .

Power loss is due to the gas vs liquid phase of the fuels ............when the liquid fuel is carburated ,it absorbs heat and densifies the charge into the cylinder ,propane gas does not do this...

brother took some guns to a WW1 memorial shoot back at the 2014 centennary .......for sure none of the 18 year olds wanted to fire a second shot from a Berthier ,Mannlicher,SMLE ,or Gew 98.

Id say you can blow them up....Sam'l Colt wrote a number of times to his detailers about returning guns with blown cylinders as discreetly as possible.......and we all know Colts first revolver...

Small charges of fast powder in large volume cases always carries the risk of chamber ring forming.

Seems the original 22" twist barrel is a bit slow for 32/40 or 32 Special,but the guns seem to work OK......I would say the Cadet action was considerably stronger than the military Martini Henry...