Great story!
Type: Posts; User: Mikedominick
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Black Vic, I think they're trying to keep you from blowing it up with a reduced load and filler, thus the undertaker comment. I had a 50-140 Sharps many years ago and got away with it, but load all...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Great story and pictures, you win the day!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
They've got two rifles in stock over on the Shiloh website, both 45s.
Forum: Our Town
I've got a foot of snow and it was 2 below zero this morning up here in western Montana. Been snowshoeing the last 2 days.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've been reloading for 42 years, and started with the Whack a Mole Lee, went to an RCBS, then the Lyman Orange Crusher, then a Dillon 550 for shooting pistol comps. I just recently bought the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I found some thanks to another member, but now my problem is I have too much! I'll probably put some up on the sale page to spread the love.
Forum: Our Town
The 250 Partition is a killing machine in any of the .338s
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
When I was a lot younger I owned and shot a lot of big bore rifles, 50-140 and 45-120 Sharps, a bunch of 375s and 458 magnums. The best way I found to shoot them was in a low sitting, crosslegged...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
That's a great hunt, I love the 35 Whelen! I shot a moose up in BC with mine, and whitetail over here in Montana. Kills like the Plague!
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I collected Number 1s as well and loved the big ones, I had a 375, 45-70, 458, and a 416 for a while! Now it's just 3 Shilohs and a Dakota model 10 in 35 Whelan for single shots. I've carried a gun...
Forum: Our Town
It's going to get way below -5 in a NODAK winter!
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I was really surprised I found a 50-90 RCBS set at a normal price. I'm not sure if I'll use them since I only shoot the brass in the same rifle, but I got them just in case, and the price was right.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Here's how the cases compare for the guys that haven't seen the big Sharps. 45-70 and 50-90 to the front and 45-120,
50-140 in the back.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Spent the day loading for a new Shiloh 40-65, and shooting the 45-70 and 50-90 as well. Waiting for an MVA Soule and globe/level front to get here for the 40, but it still shot well with the...
Forum: Our Town
I was going to have Art Alphin at A Square build me a 338-378, but had him build it in a 340 Weatherby instead. I shot everything with it, from foxes to elk and big Mt muleys. All I shot through it...
Forum: Our Town
I just had the VA approve my tinnitus claim, so I expect they're going to approve the hearing loss claim as well. I'm hoping the process to get hearind aids will be simpler than most other dealings...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
The wild hogs are supposedly heading south from Western Canada, they would seem to be the perfect beast for a 50 Sharps.
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Did it not work well, or do you just prefer cutting them?
Forum: Our Town
Elmer was the reason I started buying the big cased Shilohs back in the early 80s and loading heavy cast bullets in Ruger Flattops and S&W mdl 29s. I think his autobiography, as well as "Hell I Was...
Forum: Our Town
We are enduring a plague of these things this year. Western Montana was really dry, I don't know if that's the reason for so many trying to get in this fall or not. We call them stinkbugs but a...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Thanks, it sounds like it should work.
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I'll get mine to give it a shot!
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 |