GONRA sez - DON'T SWEAT LUBE DENTS !!
Type: Posts; User: GONRA
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA sez - DON'T SWEAT LUBE DENTS !!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA sez - don't worry about it! !!
Forum: Our Town
GONRA sez - Mainboy did it RIGHT! If yer out in the boonies, PROPANE / GENERAC......
Forum: Our Chapel
GONRA's Younger Son verks in an Operating Room .
They do this stuff ALL THE TIME!
Don't worry about it!
Forum: Cast Boolits
el cheapo GONRA loads .45 ACP with Range Brass & 230 gn Range Lead cast RN boolits.
Meets MY High Standards in 1928 Thompson SMG blasting &
precision DCM 1911 Colt .45 ACP bullseye shootin'.
Forum: Cast Boolits
GONRA bets good olde ALCHEMISTS had discussions like this! WOW!
(Today its "Faith Based Quantum Mechanics"...)
Forum: Casting Equipment
GONRA accumulated a couple dozen Lyman-Ideal and
Lee SINGLE CAVITY moulds over ~60 years.
NEVER had any of these crazy mould problems.
MULTICAVITY moulds are much more susceptible
to sloppy...
Forum: Helping Hands
Appears to GONRA that yer best bet is (attempt) to backorder some
8mm Nambu ammo from STEINEL AMMO,
patiently wait whilst watching to see what else shows up as tyme goes on....
In the...
Forum: Our Town
GONRA read Phil Sharp's book in college.
Gotta Hollywood Senior press, 6.5x50.5mm Japanese dies and
reloaded for my Uncles olde WW II bringback rifle.
(Laboriously formed brass from range...
Forum: Gas Checks
GONRA sez - scottyp99 needs a decent MICROMETER to measure DIAMETERS.
Various calipers are great for LENGTHS.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Sounds like you have it all figgered out, but just for the hell of it,
GONRA has always used STP Oil Treatment for a sizing lube.
5.7x28mm FN brass all way up to 14.5mm Soviet LSC
scrap dealer...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
GONRA's pretty sure some guys COLLECT reloading equipment (just like guns)
without any specific use in mind.
Bet most have HOARDER genes too and will grab any free stuff they can.....
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Quote Originally Posted by vzerone "
30-06 to 240 Weatherby Magnum.
"This conversion is really not that difficult with the proper dies.
Decades ago GONRA wondered if anybody actually / really...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA sez - ya gotta be BRAVE to make cartridge cases on an automatic screw machine
load up and actually SHOOT 'EM! Be Careful! EYE PROECTION!
Forum: Cast Boolits
SOUNDGUY - to date, all GONRA's 5.7x28mm FN loading
has been done from a pyle of "once fired" FN brass.
Source is believed to be US Gov. Agencies....
Such full powered 5.7x28mmFN ammo fired...
Forum: Cast Boolits
GONRA sez follow Fast54vw's advice EXACTLY and "stay out of trouble"!!!
Additional Weighty Thoughts: (warm up yer wallet, patience.....)
Use RCBS SMALL BASE dies, STP Oil Treatment case ...
Forum: Leverguns
Picky Picky GONRA reminds ya'll - primers DEFLAGRATE.
They hopefully do NOT detonate!
BLASTING CAPS detonate.....
GONRA sez BUY IT! Get all the other stuff too. Sort it all out lateron......
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
GONRA's done this zillions of tymes decades back.....
THESE DAYS - buy Really Good Brass - GRAFS, etc.
(Don't cheep out! You'll drive yerself nuts!)
Forum: Reloading Equipment
30 TPI can be made with olde Craftsman 12 inch lathes, many others.
YOU have to verk out the Gear Train for 30 TPI for the lathe used.....
(Hope ya'll like math! Have Phun!)
Teen Ager GONRA cut...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
GONRA believes it is Really Difficult to demo "static electricity"
black powder ignition safety phenomena.
From what I've read over many decades, you can dig up "tests"
to prove most anything...
Forum: Special Projects
The old Clausing Vertical Mill can be disassembled into (maybe ~300 lb, each) loads for moving.
That + olde SB 10K lathe verk Just Fine for GONRA!
Forum: Boolit Lube !
GONRA'a gallon can of ALOX 2138F just sits there, doesn't rot or decompose.....
Forum: Reloading Equipment
For a really nice uniform primer mix, GONRA suggests putting a
small vial of ingredients into a small Harbor Freight Gem Tumbler,
with 100 ft. extension cord. Typically get a fine greyish powder...
Forum: Rimfire Area
GONRA hopes y'all save that boxed ammo for cartridge collectors! THANX!
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 |