Haven't seen any in months. Must all be going to the ammo manufacturers.
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Type: Posts; User: ryanmattes
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Haven't seen any in months. Must all be going to the ammo manufacturers.
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Forum: Our Town
You can get a cheapish Android tablet for around $100. Google maps does offline maps if you know where you're going ahead of time, so you don't need cell service to use it on the road. You can...
Just a little rem.oil or one shot is plenty to lube the barrel. Pure lead goes through pretty easy.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Of those, going in blind, I would recommend the 180gr RNFP to avoid feeding issues (SWC and TC sometimes have feeding issues in some guns), with somewhere around 4.5-5 grains of Unique as a start....
I carry the 365XL, after months of consideration and shooting various subcompacts and micros. I like it because it's narrower than anything else in 9mm, it's light, 12 rounds in the standard mag, and...
Forum: Our Town
That's... more tomatoes than I would know what to do with. I'd spend half my time canning and making paste, sauce, salsa, etc.
My plants look pitiful in comparison:
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Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
This year we got a late start because it was unseasonably cold, but everything is growing like gangbusters now.
We have 8 tomato plants; beefsteak, husky cherry, a "salsa" tomato plant we picked...
Slug the barrel.
In a lot of those .45 colts a .452 bullet will be too small to seal properly, and you'll get leading.
My absolute favorite profile for .45 Colt is the Keith 454424 255g SWC...
Forum: Our Town
M110A1 is the US military designation for the G28, a variant of the HK417, but with an aluminum upper for weight and a scope from Sig. Short-stroke piston instead of direct impingement on that...
Forum: Our Town
Is that the 417? HK doesn't mess around. That's what happens when you tell Germans to engineer something: it might take 10 years to get a product, but it will be a work of art.
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Forum: Our Town
I don't think I've ever done a project where I didn't say to myself at some point "Damn, I wish I had 2 more clamps!"
Pictured below: not nearly enough...
Forum: Our Town
You seem to be short on clamps. You can never have enough clamps.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Generally that's not how they do the NLG molds. For a given profile, the NLG will be heavier, because they've simply cut out the lube groove material. Otherwise you're talking about a different...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Good advice so far.
On molds, a lot of it is mold specific, and personal.preference. I have cheap Lee molds that drop great bullets, but I also have Lee molds I can barely get any usable bullets...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Can't upload photos, must've hit some kind of limit.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/t7ST8bxiPMcNPM9i9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CdgizSckF9vqux1K6
These were shot through a paper target into a...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
HiTek is liquid, so only ever creates a micro-thin layer. It's not making any measurable difference in expansion.
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I use HiTek to coat. Sometimes the hollow point gets coated, and sometimes it doesn't. I don't worry about it, I don't think it affects the performance any.
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Forum: Our Town
In Texas, at least, when you are detained by law enforcement, they are authorized to ask you to put it away, or even take possession of it during the detainment. They usually don't. Most cops, when I...
Forum: Our Town
I, too, conceal instead of open carry. My EDC is a Sig 365XL. It's 9mm, 12 rounds, small and light, but with a big enough grip that I have good, positive control when I shoot. My priorities for...
Forum: Our Town
I prefer the single malts, if I'm going blended I tend towards Irish. Having a single malt as I type this.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
That's the one I have. It also comes with an alignment rod, to set the distance to the bullet path. And there's a rail adapter you can buy separately for use on things with rails, including semi-auto...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have the non-sporter one, and it works for what it works for. Not an all-around Chrono, but if I was to quickly grab readings on a rifle, it's quick and easy to set up without having to go down...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The problem isn't whether the PC can hold up to the heat, it's going to be the gap around the base where the check should be.
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Like I said, that gets a lot easier with ~5lbs of bullets.
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I don't know what the ml to grams conversion is for the powder, so hard to say if your mixture is right. But you're mixing so little, and trying to coat so few bullets, that I can't imagine you're...
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 |