I use 6mm acorn blanks for two different rimfire-adapter loads. Walther's old copper blanks were great, but Umarex stopped making them. The Umarex replacements are brass, and a bigger body...
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Forum: AirGuns
I use 6mm acorn blanks for two different rimfire-adapter loads. Walther's old copper blanks were great, but Umarex stopped making them. The Umarex replacements are brass, and a bigger body...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Wouldn't simple masking tape make a good-enough form?
Forum: Single Shot Guns
There are sights on evilBay and Gunbroker that could be modified easily enough. How did you get that figure of .345" ? Did you take the sight out to measure? An awful lot of Stevens sights were...
Forum: Swaging
Is that bronze malleable enough to draw into jackets? Without getting out my handbook I'd think not.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I do (well, did) this using a lathe. Far, far easier than trying to use a mill. Collet chuck quicker, but 3-jaw works. Use 1/8" stub drill to take top off the Berdan primer and remove most of the...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I made that mistake, too. Set up a Contender in .22 K-Hornet for garden defense, and quickly found that offhand snap shots at fleeing woodchucks were impossible. Replaced it with a carbine-size...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
It is a cute little thing. I'll admit. If it's accurate when loaded subsonic it might he very good for control of yard pests in populated areas.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The idea of a centerfire .25 Stevens is older than dirt. Here's a pic of an ammo box that Reuben Harwood offered for sale circa 1895. Harwood was closely associated with Stevens, and no doubt he...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Just show them the number of boys' rifles in .25 RF for sale on Gunbroker.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Here's another converter of Hornet to CF .25 Stevens. Works very well. Remember your twist is only 17" per turn, so 65 grain bullets are your best bet.
Buying NOS ammo has become ridiculous. ...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
FWIW I've been a 2R Lovell fan for over 20 years, to the extent of forming brass from .223 when you couldn't find any.
In all that time I've known of only one rifle chambered for the Max. Used...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Is that easier to use than those plastic strips?
Forum: Single Shot Guns
A very useful tool for shrinking and a lot more is Irfan View, which I've been using for years, especially for changing file formats and cropping, (which reduces file size all by itself).
Free...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Nominal twist per Stevens spec was 17 inches. Factory ammo had 65 grain bullets and were quite accurate. Muzzle velocities were subsonic. Air rifle slugs are .250 diameter....your 44's groove...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Playing with it in Quickload, 40 grains at 1050 fps falls quite a bit short. Only 100 ft-lbs.
50 grains at 1039 yields 120 ft-lbs. (126 joules), at about 11,000 psi (814 bar), which is perfectly...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I've made a bullet-seating / crimping tool for .32 Long Colt, which also uses a heeled bullet. Uses a spring-loaded top punch to hold the bullet firmly in place as case is fed into the die. It...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Mine has never leaked. What am I doing wrong?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
AMEN! But don't pick even numbers. Chose .2465 and .5012 for example.
A couple of the ASSRA benchrest guys have built .25-20 WCF rifles for 120 grain bullets, but they used 10" twist barrels to do it.
Forum: Cast Boolits
In that set you will have weights as small as 10 milligrams, which is 0.154 grain
From there you can make even smaller ones from bits of fine copper wire. Fussy work, but it can be done.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Meaning that you aren't confident that it'a accurate? Only way to know is to test it with known weights. This set is similar to what I have.
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Forum: Special Projects
Air pads are great until one passes over a crack in the concrete. Ask me how I know!
That puller looks a bit large for watch repair work, but just about right for pulling wheels off axles of HO scale model trains. A hobby I haven't pursued since childhood, but back then I was in it...
Forum: Special Projects
Yah, I moved all my heavy stuff the Egyptian way . . . half a dozen 3 foot lengths of pipe and a Johnson bar. Cribbing as necessary to get over a step.
I was in the machine tool business for...
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 |