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Type: Posts; User: Snakeoil
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If I remember right, the IBM electrics that used a ball for the type, the ball was plastic.
Forum: Our Town
It means balls lost, period. The left the stadium, were caught by a fan or disappeared in the various catch nets. Basically, a ball in play that for whatever reason removes itself from play and has...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I'm a total newbie to PP bullets. I thought the purpose of PP was for the rifling to engrave the paper and not the bullet? The other question was regarding bullet hardness. 16:1 seems awfully hard to...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Friend of mine shoots a spitzer in his .25-20SS but using smokeless. It shoots like a laser out to 500 yds.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Before you do anything on a gun stock that has been used is make sure the wood is free from oil. If it has oil contamination, no epoxy in the world will stick to it worth a damn.
How you get the...
Forum: Completed Deals
NOE 314210 2-Cavity Brass Bullet Mold
My shooting partner bought this mold new and it turned out he really did not need a bigger bullet in his rifle. So, he has no used for it.
This is the NOE...
Forum: Completed Deals
Closed because I cannot edit the subject line.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Click on it and it will expand. That pressure curve looks like it is taking forever to build pressure. I realize it is the scale, but still, seems awfully late for the peak pressure to be reached.
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
I think he meant that the FFL holder died.
I agree with SJ, contact them officially. The rub might waiting for the executor to be assigned. This sometimes can take a bit of time if there are close...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Buffalo Arms makes custom Lyman sizing dies.⁰
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My thoughts on this is the composition of the pipes probably depends on who made them. My guess is that the sound they made was different depending on the alloy. And I would suspect that various...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I get the feeling that annealing cases is the shooting version of an oil thread.
That said, here is a vid of my homemade annealing machine. This is one of several as I worked thru building it. It...
Turns out my friend bought the Frankford Arsenal version. Bottleneck only.
A guy at the club bought a trimmer like that. I think his will do straight wall as well as bottleneck cases because he shoots several straight wall cartridges in our matches. I think he paid $100 for...
Forum: Leverguns
Why don't you just download GRT? Pretty simple to use.
Forum: Leverguns
I've only been using GRT for a few months now. My understanding is that the creator (who passed a year ago) was a thermodynamics expert. He wrote the software. He got powder information from various...
Forum: Leverguns
Using IMR 4895 and Lee 250gr bullet
31.2 gr in 20" bbl = 1499 fps. Same load in a 24" bbl jumps up to 1570 fps. In a 30" bbl 1654 fps.
29.8 gr in a 24" bbl = 1500 fps. Same load in a 30" bbl is...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Had a guy in my fraternity house back in college whose dad owned several KFC places. This was back in the early 70's. He brought several pressure cookers up to school along with a big bag of the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I believe that the 686 is similar to the 682. I shoot left handed and went to Beretta in MD and picked out a nice LH replacement stock for my 682X trap gun. I wanted to take it with me. But they said...
Forum: Leverguns
My mistake for not clarifying that all these groups were shot with iron sights. Lyman 103 rear and a 17A front. So, there is the issue of variability just because of the sights. How much? Hard to...
Forum: Leverguns
First, Cast 10, I'll run that powder on GRT and post the results here. Stay tuned.
Not to hijack this thread, but since the question has been answered, I thought I'd beat the ladder test for cast...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
We had guys at the club who did not believe this. Many of us shoot 2400 and it shows it for sure. Had a shooter wondering where his flyers were coming from. I told him to tap his cases before he...
Forum: Leverguns
"I had so many so close together it became impossible to distinguish not only any "nodes," but individual shots. I'm also solely looking for good kills at whatever range on whatever animal I'm after,...
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 |