I enjoy reading about solutions to problems
one can never have too much knowledge
Type: Posts; User: nanuk
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I enjoy reading about solutions to problems
one can never have too much knowledge
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I have read some folks going a lot more than that over land diameter
I'm thinking here about something like the 8mm mauser, where the land diameter is .311 (.312 in your case), groove is .323. ...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
why do they appear to have a skirt on them?
did you size them after PCing?
I wonder who that could affect longer range accuracy
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
does it really matter?
there's powder coaters who just shake, dump, bake.
do you think small imperfections are really going to harm performance?
here's a thought: PC twice, and tumble them...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Nothing inherently unsafe about that practice but in my jurisdiction is quite illegal and could net you jail time
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The ML in question must have had a hard wad on the powder, or balled a second time where it was short started
And a nest could certainly stop up pressure and cause a bulge
Those two issues are...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
It was a Digest about ML information
Articles by Fadala. I may still have it somewhere
But I remembered that picture
Two balls just outside the muzzle in a high speed still frame
Obviously...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I believe history is full of examples of improvised explosive devices made using metal containers full of black powder.
If 36kpsi is the max BP can generate, then the container would have to be...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I watched a program about Bull, the Big Gun designer
I always wondered how he believed he could put an object into orbit using black powder... but this explains it a bit.
a LOONNNGGGG barrel, and...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I remember reading a book about muzzleloading by Fadala, and there are pictures there with obviously 2 balls coming out of the barrel
as for airspace, as anyone actually tested that wive's tale? ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
on another forum there's a guy who has tested many hundreds of bullets in all sizes and shapes
he has come to a conclusion about ultimate meplat size for penetration, depth and straight line
I...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I use CerroBend to lock up barrels into aluminum sleeves for my barrel vice.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
IDguy, if you start at the start of the thread, read it all through... (only takes a few hours, really) you'll see how you can add copper to what you have
anything is possible, just takes...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
303Guy, have you tried the aperture near your eye?
just to prove it to yourself, take a piece of dark hard paper or thin cardboard/cereal box stuff
push a small hole through it in the middle,...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Funny...
all these posts, and no one seems to really read them
Post 22 mentions calling Hodgdon....
Post 27 laughs because no one called Hodgdon....
I laugh because no one reads the...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
this is what I LOVE/HATE about this site, and others...
followup is missing
in this thread, we have been told re/4198's that H is slower, I is slower, H/I are the same..... Sheesh
then...
Forum: Cast Boolits
To follow up a bit
I used less dawn, less CA and NO polish
After two more trips through, all look good
My tumbler is a Lyman, so I assume it is designed for this
I have several batches...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I think Gloob nailed it
use the smaller number, and size 0.001" OVER your boolit diameter, and you have adequate neck tension
too bad NOE has nothing on their site showing the diameters, and...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Good luck trying to find something like that up here....
ANYTHING that is shootable, regardless of condition brings more than that, and if in good condition, you'll be paying $500-600 easy
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Options
isn't it great that we still live in a free enough country(s) that we still have options?
Even when some gov'ts are working tirelessly at removing those options....
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I was doing research on double rifles, and after reading YoVinny's post, I decided the H7H double rifle in 375H&H is inherently UNSAFE and a dismantling waiting...
I like the concept of the LeeLoader
I decided I would try to get one, or two, per rifle
one for cast, one for full length gas checks
I found in my inventory a few I didn't need anymore...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Yup
Locking piece and shelf need to be clean and dry
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 |