Froo, if you do that, you don't have the added benefit of grease running down to your elbow! Takes the fun out of it!
Type: Posts; User: challenger_i
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Froo, if you do that, you don't have the added benefit of grease running down to your elbow! Takes the fun out of it!
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
If it isn't hard shell, it isn't a taco: it's an unfinished burrito!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I have 200 rounds of CBC 45 Colt brass that I picked up in 2007 that is still holding up. Haven't had any issues with it. A friend has 50 rounds of 24 ga CBC that was converted to 577/450 that he has...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
As they say: "Purtie don't shoot!" :)
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Expediency. The U.S was so short of arms they needed anything available RDN, so accepted the M1917 Secondary Standard Rifle
with as few changes from the P14 as possible.
I agree that the M1917...
Forum: Our Town
If you run up US 83, headed north up the flat prairie, do not get startled when you suddenly, and very unexpectedly, drop off into a hole that you had no idea was there! Welcome to Valentine,...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Thanks for the tip, sir! They have the main spring for my Colt New Service!
Or this punch set. No more Wack! Wack!
https://www.harborfreight.com/6-piece-hollow-punch-set-67030.html
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
"If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, being broke surely must be the Father!"
I like it! I like it a LOT! Keep us posted, sir!
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I like the mechanical timers. I have had power surges knock a digital timer's display out.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Try this on for size:
https://www.target.com/p/ge-indoor-mechanical-timer-24hr-with-1-outlet/-/A-14440330?ref=tgt_adv_xsf&AFID=google&CPNG=Home%2BImprovement&adgroup=85-7
Set the tabs for...
Forum: Military Rifles
I have a couple of Winchester load pamphlets, plus have come across a couple more in electronic form. Only recently stumbled across the 303 load data, showing 748 powder. That's what got my gears...
Forum: Military Rifles
Hey! Thumbing through old reloading (and sometimes the new ones!) manuals is great fun! That's how I discovered IMR 4831 for 6.5 Swede! :)
Forum: Military Rifles
The data I have is from a Winchester publication. The intel I am looking for is from folks that have used, or are using, Winchester factory ammunition.
Forum: Military Rifles
Here is one from way out in Left Field:
I have Winchester load data that indicates they (at least once upon a time) loaded 150gr bullets on top of 748 powder in 303 British.
I was curious to...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
My only contact with MagTech was when I bought the conversion cylinder for my 1858 Remington. Paperwork said to use "Cowboy" loads only. The only thing available at the time (2007) that fit the bill...
Forum: AirGuns
I bet you might if they had built a nest under the dash of your 1961 Chevy Apache! There's a story to THAT! :)
Forum: AirGuns
My pard in West Tennesse builds and hangs carpenter bee traps (he's lazy: uses Mason jars). Yet, he still enjoys blasting the occasional critter that buzzes in close to his shade tree... :) He's been...
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 |