Speaking from personal experience, a 250gn bullet launched from a Ruger Blackhawk at top end loads will pass through broadside of 2 whitetails. That is why I try to wait until there are 2 deer...
Type: Posts; User: Pipefitter
Speaking from personal experience, a 250gn bullet launched from a Ruger Blackhawk at top end loads will pass through broadside of 2 whitetails. That is why I try to wait until there are 2 deer...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Call around to your local scrapyards, see if any of then have an X-ray analysis gun.
Forum: AirGuns
I want to see the results of an Iguana when you hit it with that slug!
Forum: Boolit Lube !
So, I just rescued $120 worth of wax from the dumpster??? SWEET!!!
Forum: Our Town
As a Union Pipefitter and Plumber I can tell you that I personally have so many specialty tools that I could not fit all of them into the trunk of my car.....
And when I get to a side job and...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Today I was helping my sister clean out an old outbuilding, getting it ready for demolition when I came across a full 4 pound can of
"Butchers Bowling Alley Wax". I opened it up, and the smell of...
Forum: Swaging
Corbin megamite (hand) press with Corbin swage dies. Never tried to shoot any of them. Read about it and tried it to see if it was true.
Forum: Swaging
I have used cornstarch,,,, Under high pressures it turns into a form of plastic.
Forum: Our Town
YES!! I guess that I am one of the lucky few that lives (fairly) close to a used book store. Used hardcover books for less than $5, used paperbacks for $3 and under. Big science fiction/fantasy fan...
Forum: Helping Hands
Count me in a one of Brassy's helpers this year, just let me know what you need.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Around here we call it lizard on a stick...
But I can eat about 20-25 crab Rangoons in a sitting...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Made 20# of pork sausage yesterday, 16# pork butts, 4# hickory smoked bacon, fennel seed, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, ground cayenne pepper, rosemary, and sage. I prefer burgers from...
Forum: Our Town
In Michigan you can hunt small game with a bottlenecked cartridge if you want to, just can't hunt deer with a bottlenecked cartridge in the lower part of the state.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
That is the "mega mite" press. As for price you will have to look at Corbin's website as I got mine about 30 years ago.
Forum: Swaging
In my experience Ely match brass is the most consistent
Forum: Frequently Asked Questions
Just bought 5k Rem 7 1/2 from Natchez, came out to $100/k after shipping and hazmat. Natchez states that up to 50# per hazmat fee. I could have bought powder under the fee, but I have more powder...
Forum: Swaging
What headstamp brass are you using for jackets? And what weight are you trying for?
Most of the rimfire jackets I have used weigh about 9-10 grains, you can try to increase the weight of the core to...
Forum: Military Rifles
450 Bushmaster, because shooting something twice is just silly..........
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You could always get a LRP primer pocket uniformer and cut the primer pockets deeper for the LRP. I would figure out a way to permanently mark such cases though.
Forum: Special Projects
A couple ball bearings with snap rings on the front and back should work. 608-2rs bearings, the shaft just a bit longer than the handle, drilled and tapped to fit the cleaning rod. I can draw it out...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The simple answer is yes!
I have harvested lots of deer with a .452 cast (or swaged) dead soft boolit in a sabot. Generally somewhere around 250 grains.
Forum: Our Town
If anyone would have asked me at 18yo, if I thought I would still be alive at 61, I would have laughed in their face.....
Forum: Our Town
Feed them in the morning and remove any leftovers before dark. Got one feral cat at the house, out of all the neighbors I am the only one that can touch her. (I suspect it is the invisible tattoo on...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
#1 copper will be not shiny bright, but clean of verdigris and other substances, #2 copper will have verdigris (the green oxidation) and or tar/dirt from other roofing materials.
I have a few...
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 |