Close Trey,
.311 is between #1 Buck and #0 Buck. I've prolly cast over 10,000 of them and loaded a lot of them into 12 Ga 2-3/4 hulls. Pretty devastating at 30 yards or less and durned potent at...
Type: Posts; User: Bob Krack
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Close Trey,
.311 is between #1 Buck and #0 Buck. I've prolly cast over 10,000 of them and loaded a lot of them into 12 Ga 2-3/4 hulls. Pretty devastating at 30 yards or less and durned potent at...
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If I had known 50 years ago how great it was to have grandchildren, I would have just skipped the kids and went straight to the grandkids!
Bob
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Sincerest prayers from here. ANY surgery carries risk. Odds are good and in his favor.
Tell him to git busy and whoop that problem right NOW!
Bob
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Good thread... I do NOT see how smoking a cigarette can be good for anyone. Having said that, I only recently stopped a 50 year long 3 pack (of non-filter) a day habit. The smell of my clothes...
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Too much JUNK????
Surely you jest! :mrgreen:
Bob
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Unique is the only powder that I can think of that you will be able to find loading info for anything and everything from .25acp through .30-06 and most shotshell loads.
Not my favorite powder for...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Good thinkin...
Cast iron or stainless steel are really my only choices.
The "roasting pans" are usually mild steel with a thin porcelain finish. I personally would not try it.
Bob
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Some great information above. My ONLY disagreement - in my case only - is I never add Tin until I test the fill out attributes of the mix.
Most all COWWs and most range lead (cast) contain...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
There used to be an aluminum re-processor named "American Aluminium". I worked for them in the late 1960's. They or one of their subsidiaries made wheel weights with the symbol "AL".
I think the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
imashooter2 gave about as good of an answer as there is. Lead pipe is not pure lead but close. Usually more so than stick-on wheel weights (which are a good source of soft lead).
Lead pipe...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Yes Jon,
Good idea and a few donuts or liquid refreshment keep a smile on his face.
Bob
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
But - to answer your question..
Linotype, monotype, or any other printing metals. (there are several others).
Bob
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There is a story about how a villager in Africa killed an elephant with a .22 short. ----- could be.
My choice is .30/30 power level or above. It is NOT about whether you can kill'm with a .223 -...
Forum: Sights and Optics
Is this whatcha were lookin' for?
The ONLY scope I purchased because I wanted absolute quality was a 1976 Leupold markII? in 1x4 power. At 1 power it had fantastic light gathering ability and the...
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For what it is worth... I will NOT fire ammo that is not known unadulterated commercial or that I reloaded myself.
That means no - NO - reloads from friends, from the range, from gunshows or from...
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"MOSTLY" a bunch of us are good folk...:mrgreen: :veryconfu :mrgreen:
Bob
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'm not positive but several of the "mid-western" states are black powder, shotgun, or archery only large game hunting. Prolly population density reasoning.
Bob
Forum: Cast Boolits
Unless you already had pressure signs with 250 gr and the charge you have been using I would not even consider the difference.
Lyman's published data seems to be about as trouble free as any so...
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Andrea,
I seldom speak this out but the ONLY power greater than a mother's love is God's.
It certainly appears that you have earned or are earning it.
Proud of you.
Bob
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The lighter bullet leaves the barrel in a shorter length of time. So - if both loads have anyway near the same actual recoil, the lighter bullet is gone before the recoil has reached the maxim...
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I love grits too! Girls Raised In The South!
:drinks:
Bob
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Also, please remember that NO critter on the face of this earth will know how fast the projectile - cast OR jacketed was traveling when it missed them.
:mrgreen: :veryconfu
Bob
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These old eyes see the kitty but the species is not quite familiar to me in the North American continent. Mexico maybe??
Bob
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Thanks all,
I think the mirror coat is closest to what I was looking for.
Bob
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BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
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