Harter66
03-23-2015, 07:19 PM
After much reading I have determined that ;
A I knew about half of what it seems like I should have and
B Tool making isn't my thing unless it is purely function over form.
So 1st there are just over 40 threads some over 200 posts on moon clip loaders/unloaders. A friend recently wrapped a 4 iron around a tree so a golf club handle was a natural solution to the demooning tool ,free plus 15 minutes of cut grind,debur and slash my thumb . The tool however works like a champ and makes short work of unloading and it wasn't a $40-80 must have . The loader is next but as of now for me only the 1st round is a pain by hand .
Since I have a couple of other 45s it seems natural to use their moulds.......
or not the 454 252 SWC and 255 RNFP just take up alot of case and the 45-200 SWC....... it shoots fine but seems like a waste of all that room for long seating. I like all 3 with 5.5 Unique that makes a nice plinker with the 200 gr boolit and a rather impressive thump with the 25? Boolits (262 and 265 ) . Why not a Keith type long nose of 250-260. Other than the 97 yr since the Smith left the mill. I prefer to be able to tune 1 load to a hunting load for every thing . It seems like a Keith style SWC would free up some case space and be a happy long nosed boolit with those long throats without having to overwork the "N" frame,keeping in mind that this is a special occasion gun not a daily driver.
Last little bit.
This late production, September 1918, pistol seems to have been a "Wednesday" gun . .451 bbl no apparent choke, .452 < .453 throats (all 6 are the same size) it doesn't look to have been worked on ,even the grip screw isn't beat up. The gap is is tiny ,eyeballed next to the Rugers I'd guess down around .030-035.
A I knew about half of what it seems like I should have and
B Tool making isn't my thing unless it is purely function over form.
So 1st there are just over 40 threads some over 200 posts on moon clip loaders/unloaders. A friend recently wrapped a 4 iron around a tree so a golf club handle was a natural solution to the demooning tool ,free plus 15 minutes of cut grind,debur and slash my thumb . The tool however works like a champ and makes short work of unloading and it wasn't a $40-80 must have . The loader is next but as of now for me only the 1st round is a pain by hand .
Since I have a couple of other 45s it seems natural to use their moulds.......
or not the 454 252 SWC and 255 RNFP just take up alot of case and the 45-200 SWC....... it shoots fine but seems like a waste of all that room for long seating. I like all 3 with 5.5 Unique that makes a nice plinker with the 200 gr boolit and a rather impressive thump with the 25? Boolits (262 and 265 ) . Why not a Keith type long nose of 250-260. Other than the 97 yr since the Smith left the mill. I prefer to be able to tune 1 load to a hunting load for every thing . It seems like a Keith style SWC would free up some case space and be a happy long nosed boolit with those long throats without having to overwork the "N" frame,keeping in mind that this is a special occasion gun not a daily driver.
Last little bit.
This late production, September 1918, pistol seems to have been a "Wednesday" gun . .451 bbl no apparent choke, .452 < .453 throats (all 6 are the same size) it doesn't look to have been worked on ,even the grip screw isn't beat up. The gap is is tiny ,eyeballed next to the Rugers I'd guess down around .030-035.