Maybe run your Easy Bake oven with a PID?
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Maybe run your Easy Bake oven with a PID?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Most of the rifle work is with practice ammo for the deer rifles @ 1800+. I like my milk jugs poofy. :mrgreen:
Most of the handgun is now 1200 or below. More just hurts.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just some armchair hypothesizing here...
One technique I've seen mentioned here and there is to plunk a chunk of softer alloy into the nose of the mold and fill the back end with the harder stuff....
Parallax shouldn't be an issue with a quality red dot until the distances open up significantly. In point of fact, one of the better drills for helping students build speed on them is to hold the...
Assuming you're right handed. . .
Left = body mechanics. Elbow, wrist, and trigger finger all want to curl left. Lock the arm out and crank the thumb in tight. Adjust trigger finger to pull...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Why not?
If you're thinking defensive purposes, the gun has to WORK, first, last, and always.
High likelihood of them not feeding in a lever gun.
Tendency of wadcutters to lose stability and...
OK. Longer nose then. Look at the 34-220A. Request that the front band and crimp groove be shifted rearward slightly, expand the meplat by .02", and adjust the nose taper and length of the bore...
This is where I've arrived on many things - ESPECIALLY since I got into bullet casting. Between manipulating alloy, nose shape, and adding hollowpoints, you can often pick one cartridge and tweak...
Would you rather commute to work every day in a common, reliable car that always starts, always runs, always gets you where you need to go, has commonly available parts and accessories, and runs on...
Forum: Factory Rifles
NOICE!!
My Dad snagged a long barreled '95 Krag a few years back & I got to help him with the pre-shoot, tear down and clean up. That action is an absolute BEAST. Friendly tip: Accurate...
Forum: Our Town
Remember Remington? Or perhaps more to the point, remember Titanic? It seems really efficient to have a lot of folks travelling on one boat. . .right up to the point that boat sinks. . .or in the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
1. Look at the case mouth dimension on the cartridge blueprint in your loading manual.
2. Taper crimp to match the blueprint.
Does it need to be any more complicated than that?
Forum: Factory Rifles
A 10/22 that shoots 9mm from cheap, reliable Glock mags? What's not to like?
I have the carbine with the standard sporting rifle stock and the ventilated handguard. I set it up with AR flip up...
If I had both guns on a table in front of me and an angry forest creature approaching, I would grab whichever one DIDN'T have finger grooves on the grips and not worry about who's name was stamped on...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've got to track down some photos of 1950's Chinese troops. I wonder if the lack of penetration stories had anything to do with their chests being covered with ammo pouches full of SKS stripper...
I've got very little Luger experience under my belt, but I learned quite a bit about how semi autos feed when I experimented with running the TOO LARGE meplat 452423 in the 1911.
Our rounds don't...
Buffalo Arms can do custom sizing dies for the Lee / RCBS pattern. .352-.353 should be within their abilities.
You're creeping up into the "gas checks might be a good idea" range with the .351. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You won't get a better offer than Nobade's
Other than round ball for muzzle loaders, probably the best use of pure is going old school for binary lead/tin mixes such as 20-1 that will expand...
Forum: Military Rifles
Wisdom came in the form of an old box of Remington 220 grain round nose Core Lokt I found kicking around. Those ran fine in the mentioned sample guns. I then tried matching the longer OAL of those...
Forum: Military Rifles
Can't tell you much about the factory stuff, only that the dusty attic of my brain clearly recalls seeing factory 150 grain scattered here and there.
50th Edition Lyman lists a starting...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'm with Delkal in thinking that Lyman #2, with a gas check for your purposes and intense loadings, would more than fit the bill. I'd expect slight compression of the nose on impact, but very little...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Read the "Bullet Information" section in Montana BW's site. They clearly understand the problems involved. He mentions using both Lyman #2 of 15BHN and what they call "HT" for hunting. You want to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Is this revolver going to serve any other purpose beyond "gamer gun"?
If no, a lighter bullet with as much taper to the nose, and no SWC shoulder will give you the least recoil and the smoothest...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Pretty much. The sizing die process reduces the likelihood of the problem I had. I tumble lube wherever practical to eliminate the sizing process entirely, so while I could have run my NOE Ranch...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You'll hear "Fit Is King" a lot on this forum with regards to getting the diameter sized right for the barrel and having a bullet that interfaces well with the chamber throat and rifling leade.
I...
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 |