For my Swedish blonde

[closey]

Hello CB`ers, from another newbie to the site.:-D

After dabbling with cast boolits some years ago i decided to return to the fold and have loaded these 143g Lyman .266 boolits for my m38 Swede, unfortunately before taking a chamber/muzzle cast.

http://aycu03.webshots.com/image/49922/2000564722167068501_rs.jpg

However as my barrel slugs out at .267 (thanks to Dromia for the casts) i am not too confident these puppies are going to play the game in my rifle.

Powders used are Unique and Vihtavouri N340.

Will let you know what happens after the next range day.



Closey

[Cherokee]

Welcome - well, at least you can practice trigger control and such.

[leftiye]

And lead removal???

[giz189]

I bet the bullets slug up and work nicely.

[dromia]

Don't be beat before you start.

Joe you got to have faith mate, roll on Saturday and we'll find out out. :-D

That boolit shoots good in my Swedes as you know.:castmine:

[Buckshot]

...............Since the Swede has lands as wide as it's grooves, plus with those fast(er) powders you may get sufficient displacement (the lands push the lead 'somewhere') and/or upset to keep things hunky dory.

Er, did you say Dromia slugged your barrel .............................ah, never mind :-)

...............Buckshot

[closey]

Thanks for the encouragement Buckshot, I am quite pleased with the first results from my loads

The best group size achieved with the Unique was the 10.5g load which shot a creditable 1 1/4" X 1 1/2" group at 100m.

With the N340 the best load turned out to be the 12grains with a 2" X 1 1/2" group.

Development with these bullets/powders will be ongoing.

Closey

A couple of pics from the day....

Rifle, rounds and range.

http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/48183/2001025599304944126_rs.jpg

Dromia shoots a group.

http://aycu37.webshots.com/image/49276/2001088413255739994_rs.jpg

[runfiverun]

wow that is anice rifle

[montana_charlie]

I occasionally find myself wondering if there is anyplace on the planet where gentlemen still prefer to wear the kind of headgear sported by Dromia. Obviously, there is.

However, I have always thought that style was for playing golf, or herding sheep.

Little did I know...
CM

[dromia]

Charlie a guid bunnet is a guid bunnet and should be worn wherever headgear is required.

Its a traditional headwarmer that is eminently suited to carry the clan crest.

Of course one needs good looks and proper bearing to wear such a bunnet well, as is shown here: :-D


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0205.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0205.jpg%5B/IMG%5D)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0206.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0206.jpg%5B/IMG%5D)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0207.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0207.jpg%5B/IMG%5D)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0211.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0211.jpg%5B/IMG%5D)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0215.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Bisley%20Open%20Day%202007/PICT0215.jpg%5B/IMG%5D)

[montana_charlie]

Thank you for the insight (and fashion show) Dromia.

Your vernacular made me wonder if my geography lessons had been forgotten, as you seem to sound more Scot than English.
But, I suppose that might be expected considering you live so nigh the dividing line.

As for the family crests, we have let that bit of tradition slip (over here) so that displaying one does not enter very far into our choice of hat. Should I take it from seeing yours that your name is Sutherland?

Living near the Lowlands as you do, it's likely you are more familiar with the 'Maxwell' crest than I.
CM

[dromia]

Sutherland by name and Sutherland by origin. I was born in Brora on the East coast of Sutherland.

I still have the family croft up there where I was born and raised:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Brora/Dromia_10.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Brora/Dromia_24.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Misc/xmasday2004dromia001.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/adamsutherland/Brora%20Jan%202005/EastClynesnow2.jpg

Aye the Maxwell's were a powerful border clan of famous Reivers, "I Flourish".

[Bret4207]

Nice pics! My clan (Campbell) was a bit further north I think.

[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

Closey,

Good shooting, beautiful rifle you got there. I'm envious of her, as I always wanted one, but never managed to buy one.

Dromia,

I like the hat and the homestead looks like a great place to grow up. I always thought I was Irish, but a recently arrived Irishman told me I was likely a Scot. Always wondered about that and the only thing I could find on it was something related to the Keith Clan, but seemed inconclusive to me.

Regards,

Dave

David Dixson

[dromia]

You won't get much farther north than Sutherland, there's just Caithness and then the Pentland Firth. My Village is only 50 miles south of John 'o' Groats as the A9 weaves.

The Campbells were the other side of the Great Glen south of Lochaber nigh on 250 miles south of me/


Dixon or Dickson is a Sept of the Keith clan as you say, a southern sept by the sound of it as Highland clans used Mac as a son of prefix where as the southern clans were more anglophile. Dixon = son of Dick. MacDonald = son of Donald.

[montana_charlie]

Sutherland by name and Sutherland by origin. I was born in Brora on the East coast of Sutherland.

I still have the family croft up there where I was born and raised:
Do you 'hold' the family croft, or 'own' it? I understand ownership became possible in 1976.

Aye the Maxwell's were a powerful border clan of famous Reivers, "I Flourish".
Perhaps, but having had no Chief since the 1800's, it has little to brag about, today.
CM

[dromia]

Perhaps, but having had no Chief since the 1800's, it has little to brag about, today.
CM

Instant Coffee? :-D


Do you 'hold' the family croft, or 'own' it? I understand ownership became possible in 1976.

Both, I own the 3/4 acre of ground the house stands on and tennant the remaining 12 acre arable 5,000 acre hill ground. If you de-croft all the land then you become intelligible for any "Crofting" support, with security of tenure its as good as owning.

I'm considering building a couple more houses on it and selling up, its my retirement stipend.

Just need to overcome the emotional attachment. :(

[Bret4207]

Okay, so straighten me out- I thought the lowlands were the southern part of Scotland. Are you saying the lowlands lie to the north? If so then I will have to go re-read my history as my misunderstanding of the geography will probably mean I made other mistakes too. Nothing new for me!

[dromia]

You are right Bret, the Lowlands are the south of Scotland.

My home village is in Sutherland in the Highlands that is were I come from.

I am currently living and working in the North of England, Co Durham which is the south of the border country 'tween Scotland and England.
'Tween the borders and the Highlands is the Lowlands.

So I have two homes, one in the Highlands which I visit and one in Co Durham NE England where I now live. :-D

Do we have clarity?

[montana_charlie]

Okay, so straighten me out- I thought the lowlands were the southern part of Scotland.
You mean where they say "Aye, y'all" instead of "Aye, laddie"?

Have a go at this, Bret...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Lowlands

And, the image on that page was taken from this one ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Scottish_clan_map.png ) which shows you where your Campbells were located compared to the Sutherlands.

The Maxwell clan is not shown on the map, probably because it is an 'armigerous clan' (one currently without a chief) and is therefore not recognized by the Lord Lyons Court.
CM

[MT Gianni]

OK Dromia at 10:00 PM MT time I'll sing Robbie Burns "My Heart's in the Highlands". Open your window but I can't carry it far. I understand it to be a wild and beautiful country. Gianni

[Bret4207]

Ah! Now I see where the confusion came in. I had a fair idea where Durham was and that threw me. At least now I don't have to go back and try and refigure Hadrians Walls location. Thanks. Appreciate the Clan map too.

[dromia]

Thanks for the song Gianni. :-D

Bret they were desperate to keep us out, they also got those Italian contractors to build the Antonine wall 100 miles further north 'tween the Clyde and the Forth.

[OeldeWolf]

There have been a lot of Scots relocated in the USA for verious reasons. The clearances come to mind.

The oral history in my family mentions the dark of the moon and a fishing boat to france for about half the family, they having been on the losing end of the Bonnie Prince Charlie affair. Of those, half went on to New Orleans, then half of those to Kentucky with one of the Boone parties, and so on.

I understand the ancestral Clan does not currently have a Laird. It would be the Gunns. Aut Pax, Aut Bellum. My family name is Nelson. (I try to ignore the smidgeons of french and english that crept into the mix in the course of things. :) )

[dromia]

The Clearances had a profound effect on the Highlands, probably did more lasting damage than the '45.

My Grandfather was a little boy when his family was forcibly cleared from Kildonan Strath in the 1860's.

Most of his parent's relatives were either killed or deported, he wasn't allowed to emigrate as being a blacksmith the Earl of Stafford the Duke of Sutherland kept the skilled people to work for him.

So my father had descriptions of the evictions, burnings and killings from people who went through it, its still that close to some of us.

As Sellar's, Staffords factor and instrument of inhumanity, aim was to purge the area of the indolent aborigines and create the largest Merino flock in the world.

[mtgrs737]

I see you are using Lee Collet dies, I too chose them but sent them back to Lee with a couple of boolits so that they could adjust them for the larger diameter boolits that would fit my bore. Cost was only $10 and took them less than two weeks! Now the case neck and seater are the correct size for the fat boolits. Nice looking rifle and Hat!

[NVcurmudgeon]

Dromia, it must be much easier to be informed about one's roots if the family hasn't moved much. My Scottish roots go back to a Frenchman who had to get out of France (wrong church) in 1635. His family lived in Scotland and Northern Ireland for 100+ years, becoming mostly Scots-Irish, and the name Ma Vete was corrupted to Mavity. Of course, they got into religious strife in Ireland. A father and son moved to Virginia in 1765 and the son fought in our Revolutionary War. Kind of a quarrelsome bunch. One of my great grandmothers in that side of the family was nee Keith, so I like to think I might be a distant relative of the great Elmer.