The padded gloves used by motorcycle racers or weight lifters can be used for shooting gloves in a pinch. Trick is to use padded gloves to protect the nerves in the hand from recoil.
Batting or golf...
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The padded gloves used by motorcycle racers or weight lifters can be used for shooting gloves in a pinch. Trick is to use padded gloves to protect the nerves in the hand from recoil.
Batting or golf...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Got in a lined barrel that the novice guy installed a liner in without knowing that you must chamber the liner and not the barrel, so he cut a chamber in the bedding compound and burred the edge of...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Try 10 grams of Unique as a start load, then adjust for accuracy. My 444 load is 12 grains with a 210, 30-30 is 10 wirh a 150 through a 180. Si in there is a point.
Forum: Rimfire Area
In silhouette shooting at 100 on the pistol size targets, you actually need the 40 grain solids to be 100% on the rams at all times. A 36 grain HP gives up 10% bullet weight, but 12% energy on...
Forum: Our Town
Heater core + GM= remove dash, cables, wires, and half the crap on the fire wall in the engine well, aluminum core $29, shop time $600-$1k. Atypical. Mine poured coolant out on the inside passenger...
Enlarging the initial cast bullet diameter to be oversized enough to get a desired 360 full contact sizing is a slow process, requiring several pours to the bullet size as changed to further increase...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Found that making a 1" deep hardware cloth box and sewing or lacing the corners together with SS wire, then rounding every other square hole wth a lage brass tapered punch. Turn the hardware cloth...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Most tire shops also do break jobs. Go back a bit and you had asbestos break shoes or pads. So if you have a good bit of breakdown to do, a good idea to be outside and with moving air, away from you.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Got the metal re-bedded with new hardener, worked like a champ.
Now waiting the 24 hours for full setup. Then start the metal final internal fitting, stock sanding down to the sanded paste and oil...
Forum: Our Town
Active shooting ranges are exempt from cleanup regulations by federal law. Clinton tried the same crap finally Congress stepped in and stripped active ranges from his boys applying EPA land fill...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have stopped using gun coat and dura coat, in my shop, went strictly to Cerakote. I get a much better outcome and better durability. I use a gravity fed touch up gun for application on a broken...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
The 357 Mag rifle should really be loaded as a rifle, first off. The 180 and 200 grain RCBS bullets work well. The 200 RCBS plain base when powder coated and sized to groove diameter can be loaded in...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
The 357 Mag would be a better choice as it is more versatile, shoot the 38 Spl and 357 Mag both. Just re-barrel, because the chamber cut ruined the authenticity to start with.
You can cut a cup in...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The AR system is totally about timing. If you are going to change loads you really do need an adjustable gas block. Then you full close it, then open 1/4 turn, try, open a click at a time, until you...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
With a cast bullet shooter and a rough bore the best solution I have found is fire lapping with very hard cast, lubed with valve grinding compound only. You start with a fairly course grit and work...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Well dad gum, the glass bedding did not set up correctly and after 5-6 days got just hard enough to cut with a very course spiral cutter, only hard enough to remove was all. Done hundreds, first one...
Forum: Our Town
Our filings look more like a book, we file multiple entities, plus our individual returns. We have had a CPA firm for 40+ years. Only time we paid over $1,000 for a filing was with an audit that got...
If you want an accurate light load that can be changed to a magnum load, I have had good luck with Unique and the 240 grain SWCs. It loads light and heavy both, with excellent accuracy.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
With case forming like you are describing, I use 5 grains of Bullseye, 1/4 of 1 sheet of toilet paper tamped with a new flat tip pencil and no projectile. Large pistol primers work fine. I fire them...
Forum: Our Town
Prayers for you in grief, it takes time for grief to pass, however, the memories will remain. All the best.
Forum: Our Town
Grew up in the Everglades, on the big lake. By age 9 I was guiding fishermen out on the lake and through the "grasslands" on the lake. I lived in the water and the woods. Kids, girls and boys, both...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Only one way to fix a rust pitted barrel, ever. You remove the pitting completely. Re-barrel, re-bore or fire lap using a step up grit valve grinding compound until you get a mirror finish. Fire...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Ground off the excess wood sticking up past the sock surface on the cross bolt caps, then Acraglass bedded the action and the bottom metal today. Finished at 3:00 PM, at 6:00 PM I will check it. Make...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I usually do the cross bolt caps using the forend tip and cap material as well, plus turning the grain at 90 degrees. I have some I have done without a cap, the old fashioned look of a steel bolt...
Forum: Our Town
Welcome Chappy, from the woods of NW FL.
What kind of bullet casing do you do, rifle, revolver, pistol, shotgun?
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 |