now, i think they, the powers to be call what we are doing is called a THINK TANK??? fancy title for good old SWAMP YANKEE common sense, you gotta love it!!
now, i think they, the powers to be call what we are doing is called a THINK TANK??? fancy title for good old SWAMP YANKEE common sense, you gotta love it!!
Interesting that you state never to use hot glue ... I have reloaded many boxes of 16 & 12ga black powder brass hulls with over shot cards and a ring of hot glue with no issues cleaning the barrelsmake some shot cards or a wad like they use for blank loads i would never use glue or hot glue
Regards
John
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
John, I was fire forming cases for a new 1867 Swedish sporting rolling block which is chambered in a now obsolete cartridge of 8x58Rd. I'm using the 8mm Hungarian case which is 2mm shorter than the original case. Part of the reason for not using boolits yet is due to wanting to make sure chamber is large enough to release boolit upon firing, I have discovered that the chamber is very generous to the extent that a fire formed case mouth is large enough to just drop a unsized boolit into with room left over to spare. Just got a Lee collet neck sizer and have sent a dummy sample of case with boolit to Lee and they are making a custom FCD up for it so in the future I will only neck and light crimp. I don't need crimp to shoot paper, but will not take hunting unless boolit is crimped in place. Here is the cartridge, I'm waiting for the factory crimp die to arrive to crimp and then shoot some paper.
If your bullets are sliding into a fired case that easily, you will most likely need a larger diameter bullet for good accuracy. You want a bit of resistance inserting a bullet into a fired unsized case. That will give you a good throat fit. As is, the bullet is going to kinda rattle around in the bore until it decides to squirt out the end. It sounds like you are going to be paper patching, so this problem is solved.
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
Waksupi, I will first try to beagle the mold and play with the alloy before I have to start thinking about zig zagging the boolits. Not that I'm opposed to wrapping them, it would certainly be in keeping with the period.
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 |