I hunt Eastern Washington State with an old CVA sidelock .50 Cal. It absolutely loves the Lee Target Mini Bullet. My last Whitetail was a bang flop at around 80 yards. My last Mule Deer also a bang...
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
I hunt Eastern Washington State with an old CVA sidelock .50 Cal. It absolutely loves the Lee Target Mini Bullet. My last Whitetail was a bang flop at around 80 yards. My last Mule Deer also a bang...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I thought that this was the hunting with CAST forum. It is a nice story but really should be posted elsewhere.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I also worry about ethical questions, like, Am I sure of a backstop. I have passed on many shots that were skylined or in line with a road and no dirt bank to stop a projectile. I have seen...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
The WC670 I ordered just got here today. I am somewhat sad the SWMBO has just informed me that as she is moving her Massage Therapy office to a new location, it is her desire that My otherwise free...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I just placed an order for 48 lbs of WC870 I am hopeful that the people who say that it is just right for the likes of my 6.5x55 as well as ok for my 8x57. I also plan to try it in 30-30 as it is...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Greetings Seagiant: I understand where you are coming from. I am fairly mechanically inclined. I made a living for over 30 years keeping Tissue Converting machines running. That often meant...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Thanks Much:
I have multi-part reasoning for using to Autochamps without using the primer feed.
I like to inspect my primer pockets before priming them. I prefer to seat primers in a clean...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have 2 CH Autochamp presses that I got at a yardsale a few years ago. I now have a place of my own and enough space to set up the presses. I have looked at all the info I can find on line and the...
If you have a gun with screw in chokes you could try a rifled choke to get close to your goal. Several yeas ago I got my hands on a 12 inch section of 12 gauge barrel and made some of my own. My...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I use a side-lock, 75 grains of ff Black, and a Lee Target Mini bullet in pure lead, touched off with a musket cap. 3 Deer and one Elk, none of whom took more than 3 steps after being hit with said...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Someone on this board posted some pictures a while back showing one bottom pour pot feeding into another, wherein the ingots were put into the top pot and then fed melted, at temperature alloy into...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I personally have no problem with experimenting other than I don't have enough time for much of it right now. I found a load that does the job I ask, when I can get the time to ask it to do it. ...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I do not use sabots. Not against them, just don't like to mess with success. I cast the LEE Modern Mini in pure as I can get lead, and have taken 2 deer with them, one full length, from his chest...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My smelting pot is on the small side, and I do not like skimming clips! My solution is to use a pair of small bolt cutters or compound leverage wire cutters, cut the clip section from the lead...
Forum: Our Town
And then there was Penny (small Flugell Hound AKA Mut) She adopted my family when my oldest was 5 and #2 was 2. My wife and girls found this MUT sleeping in the gutter in front of our house invited...
Forum: Our Town
When I was a young man My Grandparents were given a doberman pup. When he started digging in Grandmas garden she ran an electric fence around it. As soon as Sam (the Doby) ran into that fence he...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I test all of my clip-on wheel weights with a large pair of compound leverage wire cutters. I grab close to the clip, and if it is lead I cut it off both sides of the clip sorting the ends from the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Does anyone else use their wire cutters to cut the clip section from the weights? I do that and accomplish 2 things at once--- Sort out the steel and zink plus I can do my smelting and only have to...
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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 |