GONRA sez:
US ORANGE TIP delayed ignition tracer bullets function like this:
Heat from hot burning powder gas is conducted thru the brass base seal disk
and lightsoff a GASLESS DELAY MIX that...
Type: Posts; User: GONRA
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
GONRA sez:
US ORANGE TIP delayed ignition tracer bullets function like this:
Heat from hot burning powder gas is conducted thru the brass base seal disk
and lightsoff a GASLESS DELAY MIX that...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Barry54 sez: "I noticed the rounds don’t “plunk” when I was attempting to get this photo".
GONRA sez: "That's It! !! Next tyme, PLUNK TEST ALL product
(not just a SAMPLE !) before shootin'...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA sez Follow Clint Meier's advice on forming .219 Zipper.
STP, RCBS the "key words" 'chere".
Forum: Our Town
GONRA sez - Hang onto yer olde RCBS dies / presses / tools / etc.
Do NOT sell 'em ! !!
Forum: Our Town
GONRA sez - sounds like yer Just Fine! !!
Glad to hear it went smooooothly ! !!
Time to get back to SHOOTIIN' !!!!
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
GONRA sez - LOOKS LIKE - "TAPERED pipe threads are driving ya'll nuts...."
GONRA sez - make SURE you hava BIG STRONG PRESS and Great Dies.
RCBS Small Base verked for me.
(5.7x28mm fired cases might hava BULGE in middle of case body! !!)
Get a RCBS blank (no primer...
Forum: Swaging
GONRA's CSP-2 Mega-Mite (hand press!) really verks well! !!.
Use it for for all sorts of goofy Gun / Bullet / etc. stuff.....
Many of ya'll out there would be Really Happy with one of...
Forum: Our Town
GONRA sez be SURE to go to a RETINA SPECIALIST !
You may have to take AREDS2 pills (no big deal..)
get shots (no big deal),
have inside the eyeball surgery (sounds scary but easy to...
Forum: Casting Equipment
GONRA has "turned over" a set of blocks in a 4 jaw lathe chuck,
used a boring bar(s) to cut another cavity.....
Verks Just Fine! !!
Forum: Casting Equipment
GONRA did same same thing as Sasquatch-1 for decades.
Wear one out? Just find another! !!!
Have Phun! !!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
El Cheepo GONRA has been using Range Brass forever....
Just do NOT use annealed (SOOOOOOOFT) "Burn Barrel" range brass!! !
Yikes !!
Forum: Swaging
GONRA sez - best to hava Harbor Freight Arbor Press For Dangerous swaging projects.
Make yer own dies on yer Harbor Freight Screw Cutting (hasa leadscrew) metal lathe....
THINK - be careful......
Forum: Swaging
Based on GONRA's experience (GOOD ! !!) with olde Dave Corbin
get a Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS and blast away....
If New Corbin does NOT offer the Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS...
GONRA sez - brassrat's primer can is REALLY olde!
SHOULD have lottsa collector value..... !!!
Forum: Reloading Equipment
targetshootr's loading area looks just like GONRA's younger Son's in our basement! !!
GONRA's is worse.....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Somewhere in GONRA's Junque Pyle
is a loose leaf folder of WW II era IMR 4831 data,
lot nrs, charge wt. etc. for is original application:
20mm Oerlikon auto cannon.
Forum: Cast Boolits
GONRA used 94 grain .358 inch diameter Lyman IDEAL U358242 cast boolits
for all sorts of locked breech .380 ACP loads/pistols.....
Then developed (with lottsa help from Corbin! !!)
swaged ~40...
GONRA only loads range pickup brass for semiautos, but, for wot it's worth, here goes:
For 9mm Luger, older RCBS dies hava small mouth entrance radius.
These do a nice "back to factory...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
GONRA sez - its like screwing in a spark plug -
Use FINGERS first to get started, then yer all set to finishup!!!
GONRA sez these are Collector Items.
Pleeeeeze don't "Pop 'em off" just for the hell of it.....
Forum: Gas Checks
GONRA as similar memories (?) to the various "Wilkes holy gas check stories" above.
Believe ready-to-go "holy gas checks" were sold.....
May have seen some ata Gun Show (remember those?) or got...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As previously, GONRA sez - keep Wife, 3 kids, 2 cats & hamster off into SLUMBER LAND whilst reloading.! !!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA sez - just make SURE "range pickup brass" hasn't gone thru the burn barrel !!
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 |