1 thing I would add to your dry ingredients is....Chinese 5-spice, to taste. Great flavored spice on charcoal grilled meats.
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Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
1 thing I would add to your dry ingredients is....Chinese 5-spice, to taste. Great flavored spice on charcoal grilled meats.
Forum: Hunting Accessories
Meatcutter, retired after 45 years. Still use a good ole Norton oil bath tri-stone. Never used the course stone! Method... lay new knife across stone and press the edge down to the stone. This will...
Forum: All about knives
Retired meatcutter here. My best garage sale pick-up was a Norton 3-stone sharpener. Long time ago found the cast iron framed sharpener. the green one, for $25. Got it for $17 ! She threw in an...
Bout 40 yrs ago elephant ivory grips that some one had carved the rampant colt emblem in. Wish I still had those, if they would be legal now.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Forgot to mention. I have a box of Lee powder measurers aka "scoops". Do I count the individual "scoops" as 1 measure? HA
Forum: Our Town
57 years as of the 3rd of this month. I was 20, she was 18. Aint Love Grand ?
Hot 44 mag load =s wrist broken in 1 place... hot 454 Casull load =s wrist broken in three places + extremely disjointed elbow. Don't ask me how I know.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
For those of you suggesting using Universal Clays, are you actually speaking of Universal Clays, or h-universal. Thanks
Forum: All about knives
40 yrs a meatcutter here. To me the word "hone" indicated metal has been removed from blade. A quality steel does not remove metal from blade, it merely straightens the edge. Some so called...
Forum: Catch of the day
One time, a long time ago Believe it or not, I caught a ..... a Keeper!
Forum: Cast Boolits
How do you determine a correct oal of a round when using a hard cast bullet by unknown maker. Friend gave me a bunch of 122gr, .356 flat nose bevel base hard cast bullets I'd like to load for my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I use plastic containers I find at garage sales and thrift stores. Quite a collection of Tupperware, etc. HA
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Talked to UniqueTek people today. They do not advertise the single stage adapter as a reloading press. Just as an adapter. Anyway I purchased it thinking, wrongly, that it was a reloading press. My...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just received, assembled, and started using my new Dillon single stage adapter. This adapter is not made by Dillon. When using the sizing, decapping die the spent primers stack up inside the shell...
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
Is it OK to post garage sale yard sale notices in the swappin & sellin? strictly reloading, casting and fishing stuff.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Looking at some data for 9mm 124gr jhp bullets. In Richard Lee's Modern Reloading manual there is a load calling for universal clay and a different load calling for clays. Am I right in assuming that...
Forum: Vintage Gun Books
Just got back from closing up the cabin for the winter. While up there, Portola Ca, I stopped in at the local thrift store and found, to my surprise a 1964 Handloader's Digest . Lotsa fun to browse...
Finally got those cast boolits pulled and now I have to figure out the best way to clean the "rare" Freedom Arms brass. Looking down into the case mouth powder has stuck to the lube left in the case...
Gettin ready to pull some (100) bullets. Noticed they were crimped using the Redding profile crimp. Done it before. Very time consuming. Little bit tougher to pull than pulling bullets with the...
Thanks to all. I'm sure my soon to be 75 yr old wrists and elbows would cuss me out good if I were to touch off one of these rounds. I'm gonna pull those rounds apart and reuse components for a more...
Friend of a friend passed away couple years back. Freedom Arms 454 shooter. He recently found a couple boxes of reloads. Freedom Arms brass, 300gr cast rnfp gc bullets over 31.5grs H110 for 1780 fps....
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thanks to all for the rewiring tips. Now to decide if I'm gonna take up casting again. Stopped in the late 80s. Might pass on fixing them myself and just sell everything as is. Print a copy of all...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Anyone ever rewire the old 2-wire (no ground) melting pots to 3-wire? I have 1 Lyman pot that needs new wire, and 1 Saeco whose wire is a little shaky. Thinking grounded wiring would be a good thing....
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 |