I reload some 20mm and 24mm stuff though only the 20mm is truly shoulder fired. Its a bit over 600 gr of powder with a 1600gr projectile at around 3000fps. I use an RCBS Ammomaster press with the 50...
Type: Posts; User: biffj
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I reload some 20mm and 24mm stuff though only the 20mm is truly shoulder fired. Its a bit over 600 gr of powder with a 1600gr projectile at around 3000fps. I use an RCBS Ammomaster press with the 50...
Forum: Factory Rifles
All the standard transmissions I worked with were constant mesh but normally they used a dog clutch to slide between two gears for engagement....not moving the gear itself.
HK didn't come up...
Forum: Military Rifles
That seems like a lot of work but its interesting to see an alternative. I finally got out to test the factory brass and bullets in my SSG82 rifle. It has a 20in barrel and I was using 23.5gr of...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Brass isn't steel, quenching it doesn't change the hardness, it only cools it off and freezes it where it is. It will be more consistent if you do the water drop because your temp will stabilize...
I love it for subsonic loads in the 300 blackout, 338BR and the 510Whisper. I'm running jacketed bullets in all. 220grSMK in the blackout, 300gr SMK in the 338BR and 650-700gr military or AMAX in...
I knew a few artillerymen that were stationed in Vietnam during the war. They said about the only good use for the flechette rounds was defoliation of the jungle. They said the 105 shells would clean...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I've run the stuff in semi and bolt rifles and pistols for years and its not bad. The std velocity stuff is as accurate as any of the federal or CCI standard stuff. The high velocity is pretty good...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
748 and reloder 15 work pretty well with jacketed 147gr stuff. No idea on the lead. Check the bore first. There are some G3's with polygon rifling and it lead fouls pretty quick compared to real...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Lots of variable will affect the buildup of crap in the can so keep that in mind. I've been building and working on suppressors for more than 20 years now and one common thing I see with cast bullets...
Forum: Military Rifles
The biggest difference is the bolt and locking system. On the 1911 rifles the bolt is the same as the 1896/89 rifles which use a locking collar on the rear part of the bolt. There is about 4 inches...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The firecracker powder is a black powder with the addition of powdered aluminum. The aluminum makes the report much sharper so you get a louder crack and it gives a bright white flash to the...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
German Granny used to make saurkraut and it was wonderful. I've not found any in the US I could eat besides hers though. The wife thought I was full of crap until we went to Germany and she tasted...
Forum: Special Projects
I've been shooting a 510 whisper for years and have run it both sub and supersonic. It does not headspace off the mouth but off a tiny shoulder made by neck turning the 338 lapua mag cases after...
Forum: Our Town
Late freeze in Indiana pretty much killed our mulberry hopes. Lots of trees and no berries. Black walnuts are no shows too. You can always plant later but for stuff that you get from existing trees...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've been working on machineguns for a long time. I have had some experience with the problem in the M2 carbine but not the M1 as I don't work on them. In all the time I've been doing this I've had 2...
Forum: Our Town
Wondered what was going on. Hoping it was something like this. Working for me...
Frank
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Moving the weight forward stabilizes the bullet rather than destabilizing.
Its probably just the way they insure the weight is proper while maintaining a length that is needed to operate. If the...
After working on a lot of HD military's over the years and building suppressed HDM replicas with quite a few my observation has been that the push button on top of the slide and the associated sheet...
I've been building and selling suppressors for about 20 years and shooting them for a lot longer. You can use a larger bore can for a lot of the smaller stuff and in reality a 30 cal suppressor works...
Forum: Military Rifles
Tracers do light in the bore. If they didn't they'd never light. Its the hot powder gas that ignites them and as noted above they have a small portion of the mixture that has more oxydizer and finer...
Forum: Military Rifles
Played with quickload a bit and came up with a couple starting loads. 22.5gr of 8208XBR and 23gr of IMR4895. The 4895 seemed to be the lower of the two for recoil and blasting a chunk out of the...
Forum: Military Rifles
Now I'm a bit confused. Wikipedia says the CIP spec for pressure for the 5.45X39 is 55,114 psi. I see other information that states the russians and other countries that manufacture the round are...
Forum: Military Rifles
The hornady dies showed up yesterday finally. Arriving soon means in a couple months I guess. Now I'm just needing load data to start playing with this. I'll fiddle with quickload for a bit. Looking...
Forum: Military Rifles
I picked up some of the hornady brass and bullets a few months back. It all looks good. Still waiting for the dies though.....no one knows when they're going to be available.
Frank
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Is the 750 different than the 650 in that regard? I know of guys who have the Mr Bulletfeeders on their 650s.....
Frank
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 |